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Oct 10, 2015 08:43:13   #
marcomarks wrote:
Panasonic Lumix FZ-70, Has a 60X zoom starting at 20mm wide angle (which is rare). Selling today for $250 and below if you watch for a sale. Circular polarizing filter from them is DMW-LPL55, apparently 55mm.

Be careful with a CPL at focal lengths below 25mm because you might get vignetting if the CPL isn't a thin one.

Yes, the filter size is 55 mm. Also, with FZ70 you can take pictures in RAW and JPEG formats.
BTW, when I used old Tiffen CPL it was no vignetting even at 20 mm
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Oct 6, 2015 17:29:07   #
davidk2020 wrote:
This is spot on. The Russian document was printed by decade, which is why you see repeated "189_ goda" in the center near the bottom. (The blank space following 189 was meant to be filled-in with the final digit of the year.)

This and the German documents don't seem to belong together in time, as there is a 6-year gap from 1898 to 1904.

Someone else had mentioned that the German documents use an old orthography. The same is true of the Russian document: it is the old Cyrillic (pre-Communist) orthography, which makes it difficult for modern readers.

You have to remember that at that time, most people were illiterate. Such documents would of necessity be written by bureaucrats.
This is spot on. The Russian document was printed ... (show quote)

Well, the orthography didn't change much in 1918, after the revolution. They just removed from old Cyrillic five seldom used letters. For me (Russian is my first language)the main problem in this old Russian passport is the poor quality of the copy and the awful handwriting by a clerk, who fill in this form

:) :) :) :) :)
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Oct 5, 2015 23:47:13   #
tsteinert wrote:
The top document looks Russian or uses key letters in the Cyrillic Alphabet which could be a host of countries that use that, alphabet but the primary one is Russian but there are a ton of countries such as the Baltic countries that were part of the former Soviet Union.

The key to the second one is the two kronen stamp. If you can solve that it will lead to the Originator of said document.

If you post it on a Genealogical website and there is always someone that knows from my experience.
The top document looks Russian or uses key letters... (show quote)

The stamp doesn't looks like a post stamp. More likely it's Austro-Hungarian Empire (or Danish) duty stamp.
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Oct 5, 2015 18:27:29   #
photoshack wrote:
I didnt need to ask. He was born in the US. I am trying to get him to join UHH as he is a photographer too.

Would you please ask your 80 years old friend if one of his grandfather (or great grandfather) was Chaim Ruvim Leibov Solovjewsky, who lived in Vinnytsia (Russian Empire) in 1898 (was born in 1878) and had an abnormality at the end of middle finger of his left arm?
At the age of 20 he was short and had black hair, wasn't married.
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Oct 5, 2015 14:11:54   #
leopz wrote:
Polish Russian document.

There's nothing Polish in the second document
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Oct 5, 2015 11:22:23   #
Steve_m wrote:
I was told by colleague of mine who was from Poland, that names ending with “sky” are of Jewish origin. Names ending with “ski” are of non-Jewish origin.

The name in this passport was in Cyrillic. "Solovjevsky" is just how I spelled it in English
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Oct 5, 2015 10:20:51   #
The second document is a Russian passport issued in 1898 to the 20-years old Jewish man named Chaim Solovjevsky.
He lived in city of Vinnytsia, now it's in Ukraine
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