shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
mike goldberg said:Great review, shadowfox. Looks like you've got a winner with the Helios as well. BTW, in the 4th picture down, the young lady is dining alone. Did you invite her for coffee?
QUESTION: Did this K4am have an Oleg CLA? I've just sent off a Fed-1g for an Oleg CLA; it was brought to me by my son from the Yerevan flea market.
Mike!!! you trying to get me in trouble with my wife?
This one came straight from seller altai on ebay, he's from a town in South Siberia (I can't remember the name). I don't know about CLA, from the looks of it, the camera probably didn't get used a lot.
Wayne R. Scott
Half fast Leica User
mike goldberg said:
On my Contax before cla the space between negatives was about the same width as a gnat's eyelash. The frames never overlapped and I could routinely get 38 shots on a 36 exposure roll of film. But it drove the modern film processer's nuts as they are set up for more space between frames. I think the Keiv's are following the Contax example. After a CLA the frame spacing on the Contax is similar to modern cameras.
Wayne
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Marc-A. said:Jupiter 8 has a wonderful vintage look (Jupiter glow
I'm so going to use this the next time someone brags about the expensive Leica glass.
Btw, that's a pretty shot of the Kiev, Marc!
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Wayne R. Scott said:
Wayne, where did you send yours for CLA?
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ruben
Guest
I strongly recommend to my Kiev fellows to regard Sherer processed Contaxes with utmost respect, and Contaxes in generall too.
After reading parts of Mr Sherer site, although with my common sense critical approach, you can learn a lot about the Contax myth, for good and for bad, among them his assertion that only one among each three Contaxes out of factory were really working. As I already said before, in my opinion Mr Sherer is underpricing his exceptional work, and we can learn a lot about a Contax not CLA-ed by him.
By being objective and not jelous about Contaxes we can only gain. At the Kiev Project we will not end wih the same camera technical level, but definitely we are going to have what I may call Super Kievs. Not bad at all.
in my opinion, Kiev and Contax owners should abstain from throwing bravados at each other, and join forces instead. At the Kiev Project, the technical upgrading of our cameras is only one about many aspects. At the end of it, Contax users may find their way to a Kiev besides their Contax, and Kiev users may find their apetite increasing, and thus buying a Sherer Contax.
Cheers,
Ruben
PS
for the Kiev Project Outline, see
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40454
After reading parts of Mr Sherer site, although with my common sense critical approach, you can learn a lot about the Contax myth, for good and for bad, among them his assertion that only one among each three Contaxes out of factory were really working. As I already said before, in my opinion Mr Sherer is underpricing his exceptional work, and we can learn a lot about a Contax not CLA-ed by him.
By being objective and not jelous about Contaxes we can only gain. At the Kiev Project we will not end wih the same camera technical level, but definitely we are going to have what I may call Super Kievs. Not bad at all.
in my opinion, Kiev and Contax owners should abstain from throwing bravados at each other, and join forces instead. At the Kiev Project, the technical upgrading of our cameras is only one about many aspects. At the end of it, Contax users may find their way to a Kiev besides their Contax, and Kiev users may find their apetite increasing, and thus buying a Sherer Contax.
Cheers,
Ruben
PS
for the Kiev Project Outline, see
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40454
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