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FED 2

The FED 2 (ФЭД-2) was a 35 mm rangefinder camera introduced in 1955 by FED. The name of FED comes from the initial of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. It was the successor of the FED camera, a Soviet copy of the German Leica II. More than 1.6 million cameras were made between 1955 and 1970.

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The FED 2 (ФЭД-2) was a 35 mm rangefinder camera introduced in 1955 by FED. The name of FED comes from the initial of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. It was the successor of the FED camera, a Soviet copy of the German Leica II. More than 1.6 million cameras were made between 1955 and 1970.

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