Hamster
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Due to some carelessness, most of my camera gear damaged in the last week, only a lone Kiev II survived.
I was forced to use the kiev to do head and shoulder portraits, which was usually a job I reserved for spotmatics. In doing this I have noticed a few things.
1, When I focus using RF on the eyes of the subject, I can only get the patch to overlap one eye at a time. I understand that the RF patch have slightly different displacement along the Horizontal axis, but how do you use the RF patch in the situation I describe above? I just focus one eye and then focus the other and then use the mid point for exposure, result was good.
2, Kiev grip, I was really surprised with how stable the Kiev grip is in Low light, 1/5, 1/10s still produces acceptable results even with a one-handed hold. I have never managed that with my spotmatics or rollies. I always thought the Kiev shutter makes a crappy lowlight shooter, now i know I was wrong.
I was forced to use the kiev to do head and shoulder portraits, which was usually a job I reserved for spotmatics. In doing this I have noticed a few things.
1, When I focus using RF on the eyes of the subject, I can only get the patch to overlap one eye at a time. I understand that the RF patch have slightly different displacement along the Horizontal axis, but how do you use the RF patch in the situation I describe above? I just focus one eye and then focus the other and then use the mid point for exposure, result was good.
2, Kiev grip, I was really surprised with how stable the Kiev grip is in Low light, 1/5, 1/10s still produces acceptable results even with a one-handed hold. I have never managed that with my spotmatics or rollies. I always thought the Kiev shutter makes a crappy lowlight shooter, now i know I was wrong.
