Although the Fed is a solid, competent camera, it's also a perfect example of both the outdated technology and the promising future potential of products now appearing from the Soviet nation-states. Which brings us to the Fed 5C, a 35mm camera made in the republic of Ukraine and imported to North America by a Canadian wholesaler.
The problem is that the former communist managers have a poor understanding of capitalist markets, and their products often have trouble competing with higher-quality goods manufactured elsewhere. Labor costs in the Commonwealth of Independent States are extremely lowthe average factory worker makes about as much money per month as the average American does per hour. The problem isn't that their wares aren't affordable. By selling everything from t-shirts and fur caps to Red Army watches and cameras, the impoverished republics are struggling desperately to earn hard currency and develop free-market economies. The Fed 5C comes from a factory in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine and was once supplied to the KGB.Įver since the startling collapse of the USSR, the former Soviet republics have been exporting a small but steadily increasing flow of goods to countries on our side of the fallen Iron Curtain. Shooting With the Fed 5C Shooting With the Fed 5C
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