Apropo the Soviet Universal Turret Finder

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ruben

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If you intend to use the camera with a portrait tele (85mm, like the Jupiter-9) at closer distances, you can forget about the Socviet Universal finder - the parallax correction on that is a very bad joke, you will cut off parts of the person you are trying to take a picture of at least 2/3rds of the time. An added problem is that the foot of the finder is rather loose in many cameras, making it move slightly to the left or right.
This Universal finder is the number 1 reason that made me buy a Bessa R - only for the parallax corrected framelines!

Roman

Regarding the loose foot I solved it by force-pressuring my Kievs shoes.

As for the non accurate parallax correction the question is if we can turn the dial a bit more than recommended by the inscriptions on it, and how much. I suppose someone at the forum should have some experience with it.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
I just did a few tests with my Univ Finder (left handed) mounted on the Bessa R comparing the 85 vs 90 framelines. Focusing at the 1 & 2 meter marks, it's was actually quite close. There's no mark between 2m & infinity, but when focusing at 5m's, by positioning the finder btwn 2m & infinity, it was again reasonably close. Again, I'm comparing it to the framelines on the Bessa, and it seems to be okay... ymmv.
 
Hi Kin,
My rough inference according to what you say is that for Kiev RF, the Turret dial should be turned "a bit" more further than the engraving "recommendation" - do you agree ?

Cheers,
Ruben
 
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I have a Soviet turret finder (Zorki version) that I've recently replaced with a CZJ turret. The Soviet frames 135mm at 1.5m nearly perfectly going by the mark on the turret. CZ Jena is still untested as I want to clean it up a bit first.
 
ruben said:
Hi Kin,
My rough inference according to what you say is that for Kiev RF, the Turret dial should be turned "a bit" more further than the engraving "recommendation" - do you agree ?

Cheers,
Ruben
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The 1 & 2m marks are quite close, so it depends on whether you like cutting off the head or the feet :). Beyond 2m, less than about 10m, just put it 1/2 way btwn 2m & infinity.

Of course, keep in mind that the Kiev doesn't correct for parallax _at_all_, so I would say this is still way better than nothing.
 
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