Shooting lens - fixed T-22 4.5 / 75. Enlightened. Triplet. Three lenses in three groups. Aperture limit - f22.
For a medium format FR, 75 mm is about 40 mm for a modern full-frame DSLR.
Viewfinder lens - 2.8 / 60 single lens. Due to the higher aperture, theoretically, it is easier to determine the fact of focusing in the viewfinder. And the picture is lighter and the depth of field is narrower.
The device is designed for medium format film type 120. The frame format is 60x60 mm.
Central shutter between lenses. My copy. with a more modern standard of shutter speeds - 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, V.
Wired flash sync at any shutter speed.
The unit is equipped with a self-timer.
The weight of my copy is 554 grams.
It is based on the first model to which a wired synchronizer and autostart were added.
After this improvement, the device (released in 1955) received functionality that did not expand further until the end of the line, i.e. until the mid-90s.
LUBITEL 2 is a simple, reliable, but functional device.
Medium format film in the 50s made sense in amateur photography since. improving the quality of images.
Among the competitors at that time were Moscow-4 and Moscow-5, the price of which, I am sure, was higher. Although these are rangefinders, and the Amateur is TLR.
Amateur-2 successfully survived the Moscow and Iskra lines and then, in the medium format, competed with Salyut / Kiev-88 and Kiev-6C / Kiev-60 - large, heavy and expensive vehicles. Amateur-2 in 1962 cost 10 rubles.
In general, for the amateur photographer in the medium format, there was no alternative to the Amateur line (from 1957 to 1975 - this is exclusively Amateur-2).
For 25 years of release, several modifications of the Amateur-2 were released. However, the differences between them are small, and are mainly reduced to numbering standards, lens color design, the name of the company and the device itself (including font styles).
Such a detailed description is beyond the scope of this article. Here I will only briefly dwell on the following:
Firstly, over the years of production of Lyubitel-2, the enterprise that produces it changed its name several times. Accordingly, the name of the manufacturer on the device also changed. Starting with GOMZ, then in 1963-64 at LOOMP, and in 1965 at LOMO.
Variants with the LOOMP inscription are the rarest ones, because released them in a year or two.
Secondly, since 1959, the camera has changed the standard of shutter speeds from 1/10, 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, 1/200 + B to 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125 , 1/250 + B.
Also in 1965, the standard for the tripod socket changed from 3/8 to 1/4 inch.
SHIPPING:
Shipping to:
1.Delivery in the United States of America 6-9 days by delivery service USPS.
2. Worldwide, the European Union - delivery time is about 8-16 days.
3.Other countries - Delivery time about 15-21 days.
4.The Australia, New Zealand delivery time is about 21-35 days.
5. I offer express delivery (4-6 days) in - European Union, Switzerland, Australia, United Kington, Kanada, Japan, South Korea.
Handling Time: Item will be shipped within 1-2 business days after payment is received.
At this moment I am in Ukraine. I will ship the goods from Ukraine.
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All items are shipped from Ukraine (Eastern Europe) and delivery times:
- to Europe - about 1-2 weeks,
- to the USA and the rest of the world - about 2-4 weeks.
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