Elikon-2

04/27/2008 12:11

Hopefully mine next sunday

Anyone else have one?

Smena rules

04/27/2008 12:44

Juhani, congratulations!!! These are absolutely impossibly rare!

04/27/2008 14:35

Wow

! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

During years I was lucky to see only 3 of them. Viktor Suglob has 2 different versions, one more came for sale on Molotok just few months ago (unfortunately I was too late to buy one ...

).

Only few hundreds of Elikon-2 were produced, so lucky you ...

Best Regards,
Aidas

04/27/2008 14:49

Unless there's nobody here that has a finnish friend to bid on it it is mine

Here the local market for things like this is so small that I am bound to get it

But next sunday I will know it for sure, anyway I have placed a bid that is double what any other local bidder would

04/27/2008 15:00

Juhani,

I'm ready to go myself to Finland next week and bid locally ...

04/28/2008 11:50

The seller (a friend of mine) called me, this is not his only one, but a spare one. So he still keeps the other one for his collection!

Smena rules

05/04/2008 13:19

And mine for 24.89 euros totally!
Serials:
9186757 (mine)
9184808 (sellers)
On midweek more, with pics and comaprison to "numberless".

Smena rules

05/04/2008 13:48

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

05/04/2008 15:19

So the next question is if anyone has ever seen an Elikon-1 in reality? Other than foggy pics like this:

Or is the only ones in (possibly) Finland and at Suglob's...

05/05/2008 00:31

Juhani,

Indeed, you are very close to complete your great Elikon collection! And only few "common" cameras are still missing

... Orion-35C, Elikon-1 and Elikon-5

. As far as I know, Viktor doesn't have Elikon-1 in his collection yet, so the question is still open.

Regards,
Aidas

05/05/2008 06:20

quote:
Originally posted by cedricfan

So the next question is if anyone has ever seen an Elikon-1 in reality? Other than foggy pics like this:

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/elikon-1.jpg

And again I know the source!
This picture is from the page
http://www.zenitcamera.com/articles/cameras/schneider-russians-eng.html
( http://www.zenitcamera.com/archive/history/elikon-1.jpg )

05/05/2008 08:12

Juhani congratulation with you new camera!!!
I hope you will complete Elecon collection soon and show it for our enjoyment!!!

05/05/2008 08:56

Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is. If you insist I will delete it from my files?
Aidas: what is Elikon-5, as I have never seen anything about that anywhere? Or only a joke like Smena-13... And only place where I found Orion-35C mentioned was yours, yet no picture nor anything if it has been somewhere sometime?

Smena rules

05/05/2008 11:10

quote:
Originally posted by cedricfan

Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is.

Origin? Scanned from the catalogue "Still cameras and binoculars from the USSR". TENTO (v/o Technointorg), USSR, Moscow (not dated).

05/05/2008 11:56

quote:
Originally posted by cedricfan

Zoom: this picture is again one of those that have been spread so around the internet that only a hnadful know where the origin is. If you insist I will delete it from my files?
Aidas: what is Elikon-5, as I have never seen anything about that anywhere? Or only a joke like Smena-13... And only place where I found Orion-35C mentioned was yours, yet no picture nor anything if it has been somewhere sometime?

Smena rules

Juhani,
If I remember correctly, Viktor Suglob was sending Christmas cards with picture of Elikon-5. The only thing I know it's somehow similar to Elikon-535 camera, but not the identical one. And I was lucky to hold the real Orion-35C in my very own hands, during my last stay in neighbour Minsk.

Regards,
Aidas

05/07/2008 14:05

And now at home

Added pics & edited Wiki:

"A close version of Elikon/Elikon-1. Differences are:
-No rangefinder, only meter-scale
-Lens has same name Minitar-2 but f/3,8 instead of f/2,8
-ISO instead of GOST
-No lens data ring around front lens, smaller front lens

Serial #9186757 (Juhani)
Serial #9184808 (Finnish collector)

Sidenote: Instructions booklet says "Vilejskij zavod Zenit" as manufacturer!"

Smena rules

05/07/2008 15:06

Juhani!

Truly significant find!! The lenses are different - on E2 it is Minar-2 on E1 is Minitar-2.

Cheers,
Vlad.

07/25/2008 03:47

Hi,

I have got mine Elikon-2 finally ...

And Juhani was right about serials starting with #918XXXX ... Mine is #9184999!

Best Regards,
Aidas

07/25/2008 10:22

Seems Lithuania-Finland axle is growing strong in these odd Smenas and Elikons, congratulations!
But why do the serials start with the eight after year...

Smena rules

07/25/2008 10:29

Juhani,

thanks! My passport shows 30th March, 1992 as a date of manufacture ... I'm almost sure yours is the same ...

Best Regards,
Aidas

07/25/2008 22:46

Passport show TY******-86
TY is Technicheskie Ysloviya(Technical Conditions), as I remember, and 86 is a year when those conditions was signed up; that I know on sure,
Does it mean that camera was developed in 1986 and did not produce until 1992?

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