Kiev Porn for Max

[kmack]

I will never pass up a chance to show off a new (to me) camera.
Per a request by Max-- my Kiev 3
It was an impulse buy on that evil-bay site. Low price, US seller. I figured that
if it was a junker I could use it for parts for my 4 (Still need a back for that one). It turned out to be the finest Kiev that I have ever seen. It really only needed minor cleaning and lube.

 

[Solinar]

You made your Kiev 3 a ham sandwich and poured it a beer? How nice.

 

[kmack]

You made your Kiev 3 a ham sandwich and poured it a beer? How nice.

I don't really drink that much coffee. 😉

 

[back alley]

i just can't get used to the metered kievs/contaxes...not that there's anything wrong with them😉

fine looking machine and sandwich.

 

[T_om]

Joe,

Somehow, they look worse in pictures than they actually are.

Tom (Former Contax III owner)

 

[ruben]

As a matter of fact, I purchased my only metered model Kiev out of how seductive it looked at the eBay auction. It was a 1969 born, unused. The bonus: Great performer with accurate meter.

Unfortunately I destroyed the meter in my way to dis-assembling the body, which has a different way of dis-assembling than the non-metered ones, still unclear to me.

I uncover this crime begging you guys to punnish me as I deserve, otherwise my soul will continue torturing me on and on. Kindly relief me.

Cheers,
Ruben

 

[w3rk5]

Sweet looking Kiev 3 kmak.

I agree with you Tom "Somehow, they look worse in pictures than they actually are".

 

[akptc]

Kevin, nice looking camera. And a damn good-looking lens!-)

 

[kmack]

Kevin, nice looking camera. And a damn good-looking lens!-)

I thought you may spot that 😀. Unfortunately I will not be able to test it until I get back from San Francisco next week. I will be taking the Bessa, my Canon 1.8/50 and the CV 2.5/50 with me (lighter weight, smaller package).

 

[darkkavenger]

All I can say is that my heart was racing fast and that I almost teared up... well i'm doing now... what a cuuuuuuuutie!!! 😀

 

[darkkavenger]

Is that a 50/1.5 CZJ Sonnar? :angel:

 

[Jocko]

I uncover this crime begging you guys to punnish me as I deserve, otherwise my soul will continue torturing me on and on. Kindly relief me.

Cheers,
Ruben

I've writen a note to your avatar, Ruben. She's coming round later and she's in a bad mood 😀

Ian

 

[kmack]

Is that a 50/1.5 CZJ Sonnar? :angel:

Nice catch, yes it is. I just got it in a trade with Andy. I am looking forward to testing it soon.

 

[darkkavenger]

I'm trying to find a nice 85mm viewfinder (possibly not a turret viewfinder or a russian one) to use with my Jupiter 9 🙂 I gotta signup soon to premium membership and initiate some trades 😉

 

[darkkavenger]

Interesting how this Kiev III http://cgi.ebay.com/KIEV-3-CONTAX-I...ryZ30028QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem from 1952 has its meter ring using DIN (German) film sensivity markings on the meter knob.

 

[Xmas]

Ruben

You have options of

a) forty 'Hail marys'
b) a good lashing from your avtar
c) telling us what you did to the top plate of the Kiev

If you pick c) then we have options

i) getting Russ to update his site
ii) having some one with parts send you bits

I have had trouble with Kiev meters. We can have Russ detail more exactly how to lift the top plates, he has a IIII of his own and the III that I have is almost the same.

The III is only different because the calculator is different. On my III you undo the screw in the center of the rewind knob on top of the calculator, otherwise it is the same as a IIII.

So what part of your meter did you break?

Noel

 

[Xmas]

Max

My '53 Kiev III also has DIN markings on the meter settings!

Noel

 

[darkkavenger]

then maybe.... "maybe".... (uses the word with great cautiousness) your '53 Kiev III has original contax parts. But anyway, even with my 2A, I can feel a solidness, robustness and quality of build that the later models do not have, even if they too are solid and allright.

 

[varjag]

DIN markings is a fair sign that the camera has parts from Contax leftovers. Also by some data stock of some brands of Zeiss optical glass lasted up to 1953. Though, I think that Soviet optical glass, unlike camera craftsmanship, was continually improving until the very USSR demise.

 

[Xmas]

Max

A more cautious assumption is that the East Germans protoyped a Contax III for the Russians and the Russians accepted it as it was before they 'productionised' it. We need a date for the change over from DIN to GOST, e.g. for Max's database...

The initial T34 medium tank production was nicely finished but the finish quality dropped off during the war, as the Germans overrun the factories. It is said that the Leningrad production workers ran their tanks off the end of the production line down their main street right into combat with the Panzer army.

The Stalingrad workers had more difficulties.

One has the appreciation that the Kiev was subject to the same production rules without recognition that the Kiev was both a toy and a 'masterpiece of missplaced ingunity' and the T34 a beautifully rational design.

noel