FED-2 Instruction manual
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The camera can be loaded under ordinary soft lighting conditions in the following way. By turning
the nut on the case bottom unscrew the tripod screw retaining the camera, remove the camera from the
case. Raise the lock shackles with the nail and turn them half-way round as far as they will go. Then
pressing with the thumbs, shift the camera back in such a way that its edge comes out of the camera
slot and remove it.
Open the camera and take out the take-up reel and magazine. The reel is removed with a certain
amount of effort. Load the magazine with film (the magazine is loaded in the darkness). Having pulled
out a free end of film about 10cm long from the magazine, fasten it on the reel in such a way that the
spring tooth enters one of the perforations.
Fit the take-up reel on the bush and then place the magazine in the camera. At this point the film
should be slightly stretched and the teeth of the sprocket should enter the perforations of the film.
Close the camera.
The unexposed film is fed to the picture aperture by winding the shutter twice pressing the release
button after each winding. The winding lever should be turned as far as it will go.
When properly loaded the camera is wound easily without jerky motions and noticeable efforts.
Then by turning the dial scale set the “O” point of the picture counter opposite the indicator. Align the
sensitivity scale dial with the film-type indicator index in accordance with the data of the film loaded in
the camera. The film indicator is a memory device consisting of a movable sensitivity scale in film
speed units (ASA, DIN) and a stationary indicator with conventional designations of film types.
The camera is equipped with lens “Industar-26M” or “Industar-61” with lanthanum optics. The
scales are located on the lens mount. The diaphragm scale
1
indicates changes in the lens speed. When
focusing, the depth-of-field scale
2
indicates on the distance scale the limits within which the range
sharpness will be satisfactory for each selected diaphragm value. The distance scale
3
serves for
focusing the lens. The scale designations correspond to the distance from the object being
photographed to the surface of the film in meters.
The camera is focused with the help of optical range-finder. In order to set the camera at an accurate
and proper focus turn the lever of the dioptric focusing, focus the view-finder by sight (the dioptric
focusing mechanism provides a correction of ± diopters).
