Weird soviet camera in ebay slider

[alex ph]

Hi fellows, it makes some time I haven't posted here, due to work and a growing COVID-related use of smartphone, which is just easier to wipe after walk. So coming back with a curiosity.

Noticed today a really strange Soviet film camera in the first page slider of French ebay. Here it is



Where did they take it from? Not just a trivial Zorky or FED which it resembles, but a name I've never heard of. And, visible, no one in the net. Have you stumbled upon the Soviet photography trademark Pamyat?



Cheers

[Alex TG]

That's just FED-2 MkII (FED-2b, FED-2 version 2 or whatever you might want to call it).
Might be some honorary award copy, might be (and probably is) Photoshop.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Pamyat is the Russian word for memory.

Possibly a branding that was used for a short time?

[Lightshow]

Fed 2.
https://pacificrimcamera.com/catalog/th_bj12.htm definitely less common than the other 2.


Seems to be a transition version between this one


And this one.

[alex ph]

I looked through a series of web pages to set where this camera or this image might come from and I am inclined to the suggestion by Alex TG about Photoshop. No other trace of Pamyat camera or inscription on FED is showing.

But that looks pretty mysterious, is not it? As if a French graphic designer (or someone hired on outsourcing somewhere in the third world) wished to pass a secret message to someone through the ebay slider.