Hi Bernd :)
Bernd Moeller wrote:
What is a Kiev anyway, besides a medium format camera of Soviet origin?
that's what it is. Some think they are ugly
(http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/kiev60.htmlhttp://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/mf/kiev60.html),
most of them don't work properly because the films we use are thinner
than the one's she was designed for resulting in overlapping frames.
Kiev 88 was the russian Hasselblad - copy, Kiev 60 is a lot like
Pentacon 6. What makes them so interesting is the lenses. Arsat, the
russian factory in Ukrain, got the technology from Carl Zeiss Jena after
WW II (Reparationsleistung - don't know the english word for it).
So the original russian lenses are already very good - for the price
even outstanding. The bayonet of the 60 is the same as for Pentacon 6
(GDR made) and Exacta. So you get a lot of Carl Zeiss Jena lenses as
well as Schneider Kreuznach, if you happen to have too much money ;) -
of course, *if I had, I would buy some Zuikos :)))
regards
Doro
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