Like many other Soviet cameras, the shutter speed dial rotates to the correct position when the shutter is cocked, this means that you have to set the shutter speed after winding on. There’s no lightmeter at all but there is a cold-shoe and a sync socket. ![]() Mine works perfectly in every way, even the self-timer still works and the rangefinder focusing is accurate. Improvements over previous models include a shutter speed selector that goes as high as 1/500th and as slow as 1s, the flash sync speed stays at 1/30th howev er as the shutter design is unchanged from the original model. The 3a and the 3l have a stepped deck with a winding knob that’s level with the rangefinder window rather than an advance lever sticking out above. The main difference between the 3b and the other FED 3 variants is the flat top deck. It’s not a good lens but the camera will accept LTM m39 lenses so, it’s possible to put stupidly expensive Leica glass on a $5 Soviet body if you really want to. Mine has an Industar-61 52mm, f/2.8 lens based on a Carl Zeiss Tessar formula. It was sold to its original owner in 1974 for 49 Roubles and 50 Kopecks, which was quite a tidy amount for the average Soviet citizen. Mine is a 3b model from 1966 and I bought it at a market in Kyiv complete with the original box, sales paperwork and manuals. The FED 3 is a fairly basic rangefinder that’s a couple of revisions on from the Leica II that FED copied as their first camera.
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