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FED-4 type 4b c.1975 image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights)

The FED 4 is a 35mm film rangefinder camera made by FED and produced between 1964-80 with quantity 633.096 units.

Its main improvement over the FED-3 is its added uncoupled selenium meter, with a window in front of the speed dial. The meter has a scale on the user's left of the top-plate, with a match-needle linked to a calculator dial. The placement of the meter calculator leaves the rewind as a thumb-wheel on the end of the camera.

Foto-Quelle sold the FED-4 in Germany as the Revue 4 (F194). Special editions were produced for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1967.

There are 6 types and 10 sub-types of the camera, as to Alexander Komarov ^[1]

Specifications

Lens: Industar-61 (ИНДУСТАР ) 52mm f/2.8 Mount: M39 screw mount, filter slip-on
- Aperture: f/2.8-f/16 setting: ring and scale on the lens shutter barrel
- Focus range: 1-20m +inf
Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder, distance scale and ring on the lens, w/ DOF scale
Lens release: simply screw counter-clockwise
Shutter: rubberized silk double cloth curtain, horizontal focal plane,
- Speeds:1-1/500 +B, setting: dial on the right of the top plate, Note. When setting to low speeds you will hear a clockwork winding voice.^[2]
Shutter release: beside the winding lever, w/ cable release socket
Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, retractable, on the right of the top plate
Frame counter: coupled with the cocking lever, advance type, manual reset
Viewfinder: coupled viewfinder/ rangefinder, w/ Diopter correction ring, around eyepiece
Exposure meter: uncoupled Selenium cell sensor, metering by a needle window on the top-plate
Exposure setting: Set the film speed on the setting dial. Even though the speeds on the dial are in GOST, just set the ASA value; Point the camera to the scene you want to photograph; Turn the light meter dial until the needles in the window match; Read off the suitable shutter speed and aperture combinations on the dial and set the camera accordingly
Re-wind knob: a thumb wheel on the left side of the camera
Re-wind release: set to B the collar aroun the shutter release
Flash PC socket: on front of the camera
Cold-shoe
Memory dial : on the winding knob
Self-timer
Back cover: removable, opens by two folding levers on the top plate
Engraving on the back of the top plate: FED logo, Made in USSR and serial no.
Tripod socket: ¼"
Strap lugs: none
Body: metal; Weight: 780g

FED-4 type 4b c.1975 Images by Süleyman Demir (Image rights)

Notes and references

↑ in Fotoua
↑ The early Leica cameras, and the other Leica inspired cameras like Canon III, FEDs and Zorkis, and almost any camera which winding also causes the film speed selector turning, always cock the shutter before changing film speeds.

Links

in Fotoua
in Sovietcams
Fed 4 models at USSR Photo
FED 4a at USSR Photo
FED 4b by Roland & Caroline
FED 4b instructions on the Marriott's site
At Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr
- Fed 4
- Fed 4
Fed 4b at Interno in bakelite (italian)
Revue 4 at Kurt Tauber's
JM Burtscher sovietcamera website : Sovietcamera french website
FED 4 at r-kobus.eu

FED cameras

Rangefinder FED | FED-1 | FED NKVD | FED-S | FED-2 | FED-3 | FED-4 | FED-5 | FED-5s | FED-5v | FED-6 TTL | FED-10 | FED-11 Atlas | FED-35 | FED-35A | FED Mikron-2 | TSVVS

Viewfinder FED Zarya | FED Mikron | FED 50

Stereo FED Boy Stereo | FED Stereo | FED Stereo-M

[1] Fotoua

[2] The early Leica cameras, and the other Leica inspired cameras like Canon III, FEDs and Zorkis, and almost any camera which winding also causes the film speed selector turning, always cock the shutter before changing film speeds.

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-The '''FED 4''' [[rangefinder camera]] was produced by the [[FED]] factory in Kharkov, Ukraine from 1964 to 1980. It has interchangeable lenses, fitted with a [[39mm screw lenses|Leica-type M39 screw thread]]. The normal standard lens supplied was a 53mm f2.8 Industar 61.  It has a [[focal-plane shutter]], with speeds from 1s - 1/500s +B, with [[flash sync]] at 1/30s. Frame size is 24x36mm on [[35mm film]].
+The '''FED 4''' is a [[35mm film]] [[rangefinder camera]] made by [[FED]] and produced between 1964-80 with quantity 633.096	units.
-Its main improvement over the [[FED 3]] is its added uncoupled [[selenium meter]], with a window in front of the speed dial. The meter has a scale on the user's left of the top-plate, with a match-needle linked to a calculator dial. The placement of the meter calculator leaves the rewind as a thumb-wheel on the end of the camera.
+Its main improvement over the [[FED-3]] is its added uncoupled [[selenium meter]], with a window in front of the speed dial. The meter has a scale on the user's left of the top-plate, with a match-needle linked to a calculator dial. The placement of the meter calculator leaves the rewind as a thumb-wheel on the end of the camera.
-The Fed 4 comes in two versions, Type a & Type b. the FED 4a (F190, made from 1964-1971) has [[film advance|knob wind]], with a plain front to the top plate, with a large gap between the viewfinder window and the top, a circular bezel around the [[rangefinder (device)|rangefinder]] window, and the name engraved on the front, between and above the rangefinder and viewfinder windows.  The FED 4b (F192, made from 1969-76) has lever wind, and rectangular borders to the rangefinder and viewfinder windows matching the height of the meter window. The viewfinder is larger, and the name is printed on the plate around the rangefinder window; the 4a's strap lugs are omitted.
-Type b comes in 3 variants each with slight cosmetic changes.
-[[Foto-Quelle]] sold the FED 4 in Germany as the '''Revue 4''' (F194). Special editions were produced for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1967.
+[[Foto-Quelle]] sold the FED-4 in Germany as the '''Revue 4''' (F194). Special editions were produced for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1967.
+There are 6 types and 10 sub-types of the camera,
+as to Alexander Komarov <ref>[http://www.fotoua.com/1camera.php?usl=4&usl1=fed&st=7&rd=4&seek2=6&seek1=0 in Fotoua]</ref>
+==Specifications==
+*Lens: Industar-61 (ИНДУСТАР ) 52mm  f/2.8  Mount: [[M39]] screw mount,  filter slip-on
+**Aperture: f/2.8-f/16	setting: ring and scale on the lens shutter barrel
+**Focus range: 1-20m +inf
+*Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder, distance scale and ring on the lens, w/ DOF scale
+*Lens release: simply screw counter-clockwise
+*Shutter: rubberized silk double cloth curtain, horizontal focal plane,
+**Speeds:1-1/500 +B, setting: dial on the right of the top plate, Note. When setting to low speeds you will hear a clockwork winding voice.<ref>The early Leica cameras, and the other Leica inspired cameras like Canon III, FEDs and Zorkis, and almost any camera which winding also causes the film speed selector turning, always cock the shutter before changing film speeds.</ref>
+*Shutter release: beside the winding lever, w/ cable release socket
+*Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, retractable, on the right of the top plate
+*Frame counter: coupled with the cocking lever, advance type, manual reset
+*Viewfinder:  coupled viewfinder/ rangefinder, w/ Diopter correction ring, around eyepiece
+*Exposure meter: uncoupled Selenium cell sensor, metering by a needle window on the top-plate
+*Exposure setting: Set the film speed on the setting dial. Even though the speeds on the dial are in GOST, just set the ASA value; Point the camera to the scene you want to photograph; Turn the light meter dial until the needles in the window match; Read off the suitable shutter speed and aperture combinations on the dial and set the camera accordingly
+*Re-wind knob: a thumb wheel on the left side of the camera
+*Re-wind release: set to B the collar aroun the shutter release
+*Flash PC socket: on front of the camera
+*Cold-shoe
+*Memory dial : on the winding knob
+*Self-timer
+*Back cover:  removable, opens by two folding levers on the top plate
+*Engraving on the back of the top plate: FED logo, Made in USSR and serial no.
+*Tripod socket: ¼"
+*Strap lugs: none
+*Body: metal; Weight: 780g
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+==Notes and references==
+<references/>
-The camera is a veritable beast, seemingly carved out of a huge chunk of metal - it's also quite large; it doesn't give the impression of a camera that will fall apart. This thing is built to last.
-{{br}}
 == Links ==
+*[http://www.fotoua.com/1camera.php?usl=4&usl1=fed&st=7&rd=4&seek2=6&seek1=0 in Fotoua]
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+*[http://www.sovietcams.com/index.php?-420238787 in Sovietcams]
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 * [http://ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=101&ParentID=1 Fed 4 models] at USSR Photo
 * [http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=101&ParentID=1&ContentID=368 FED 4a] at USSR Photo
 * [http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/fed4b.html FED 4b] by Roland & Caroline
 * [http://www.marriottcameras.co.uk/instruct3/fed4/with_pictures.htm FED 4b instructions] on the [http://www.marriottcameras.co.uk/ Marriott's site]
-* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/fed/html/fed_4b.php Fed 4b] at [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php Sylvain Halgand's  www.collection-appareils.fr]
+* At [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr]
-* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/fed/html/fed_4_bis.php Fed 4] at [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php Sylvain Halgand's  www.collection-appareils.fr]
+**  [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=10844 Fed 4]
+**  [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=42 Fed 4]
-* [http://www.kameramuseum.de/0-fotokameras/revue/kb-sucher/revue-4.html Revue 4] at  [http://www.kameramuseum.de Kurt Tauber's]
+* [http://internoinbakelite.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/recensione-semi-teorica-fed-4-tipo-b/ Fed 4b] at [http://internoinbakelite.wordpress.com/ Interno in bakelite (italian)]
-* JM Burtscher sovietcamera website :  [http://www.sovietcamera.fr/ Sovietcamera french website]
+* [http://www.kameramuseum.de/0-fotokameras/revue/kb-sucher/revue-4.html Revue 4] at [http://www.kameramuseum.de Kurt Tauber's]
+* JM Burtscher sovietcamera website : [http://www.sovietcamera.fr/ Sovietcamera french website]
+* FED 4 at  [http://r-kobus.eu/node/33 r-kobus.eu]
+{{FED Rangefinder Series}}
 [[Category: 39mm screw mount]]
 [[Category: Former USSR]]