http://www.metafilter.com/tags/fedka Posts tagged with 'fedka' at MetaFilter. Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:15:44 -0800 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:15:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/65084/The%2DSecret%2DPolice%2Dand%2Dthe%2D35mm%2DCamera In 1934, the FE Dzerzhinsky labor commune in Kharkiv began manufacturing a <a href="http://licm.org.uk/livingImage/Rangefinder-Camera.html">rangefinder camera</a> that copied the German <a href="http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Leica">Leica</a>. Though production has long ceased, FED rangefinders are still widely used and <a href="http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=8&ParentID=1">collected</a> today. But the <a href="http://mattdentonphoto.com/cameras/fed_2.html">FED</a> and its <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050217195536/fed.kharkov.ua/eng/pages/01.html">manufacturer</a> have a <a href="http://www.fedka.com/Useful_info/Commune_by_Fricke/commune_A.htm">tarnished history</a> - some of which is due to a work force comprised of <a href="http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/vintage/fed.html">children and criminals</a>, and some owed to its namesake: <a href="http://www.bookrags.com/Felix_Edmundovich_Dzerzhinsky">Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky</a>, the founder of <a href="http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2007/05/01/the-cheka">the Soviet</a> <a href="http://www.faits-et-documents.com/bilan_communisme/cheka01.htm">secret</a> <a href="http://www.lettia.lv/en_a_baigais-gads.html">police (NSFW)</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65084 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:15:44 -0800 35mm camera Cheka Dzerzhinsky FED fedka FelixEdmundovichDzerzhinsky leica NarodnyKomissariatVnutrennikhDel NKVD secretpolice sovietunion katillathehun