Collectable, usable and under £100
Collectable cameras are frequently old and impractical for use today. Usable film cameras, on the other hand, are likely to be too modern to arouse a collector’s interest. Sometimes, however, a camera crosses over into a world which makes it both collectable and usable – and possible to find for £100 or a lot less.
Fed 1
TYPE 35mm coupled rangefinder camera
LAUNCHED 1934
GUIDE PRICE £35-50
Collectability When the first Leicas were produced, Leitz did not register patents in Russia. As a result, the Russians began making perfectly legitimate copies of the Leica II, which are now collectable.
It’s a fully manual model with no metering aids. Shutter speeds run from 1/20 to 1/500sec and the coincident image rangefinder is coupled to the 50mm f/3.5 Fed lens. That lens
