Maizenberg's Book + the kiev/contax cassetes

Actually, I have always been impressed with the print quality of the English version -- the illustrations especially, which are of pretty high definition. There is an amazing amount of information in the book, and it seems to me someone did an excellent editing job with it.
 
Kiev reloadable cassettes

Kiev reloadable cassettes

Hallo Ruben
It's actually easier than the method that you suggest. If you have the wrong type of cassette you won't be able to operate the lock on the camera back.
Regards
fanshaw
ruben said:
Hi fanshaw,

Fortunately our friend Noel has provided us with a solution, genial in its simplycity and simple in its geniality, which I call The Xmas Dry Film Test.

In this specific context, you load both suspicious cassettes with virgin outdated film you are ready to sacrifice, and start firing. You can fire the shutter without the back of the camera, or with the back and B speed, using the B time to mark each frame from the lens mount. When finishing the roll, the 36 marked frames will be your 'rentgan' proof of how the cassettes perform.

Cheers,
Ruben

PS,
The test was originally designed to know beforehand frame-space performance.
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fed & zorki cassettes

fed & zorki cassettes

Xmas said:
Ruben

The advantage for me is there are no scratches using the Kiev cassettes, and they are cheaper than Contax origionals.

Also I discovered by chance that the Kiev cassettes (but not contax origionals) will fit some of the other FSU cameras! I found one in a Zorki 5!

Noel
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Both Fed and KMZ made their own cassettes. I have examples of both, though they made only feed cassettes, not take up ones. I also have a GOMZ/Lomo cassette found in a Leningrad I bought recently. I have several copies of the original Russian Maizenberg, published in Moskow in 1961. Great illustrations but I dont understand a word :-( my students are working on it and others. I also have the 1964 update published in Kiev, which is much more detailed and features many more cameras.
 
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Maizenberg

Maizenberg

Jocko said:
Hi Jay - I had to contact a British dealer earlier today and I think I might now be able to clarify some of the history of the Maizenberg book (and correct my earlier comment).

Apparently the standard white hardback (1996) was indeed privately produced by Maizenburg, hence the "good Xerox" quality, the result of a short-run non-letterpress process used by a jobbing printer. This presumably explains the lack of an ISBN, not that this affects copyright etc.

Following Maizenburg's death (in 1999?) much of the unsold stock was bought by Peter Loy, the leading British dealer, who also bought up copies from other retailers. I believe the OTC copies were subsequently bought from Loy, who originally offered them at a considerably higher price.

Cheers, Ian



Cheeers, Ian
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Hi Ian, I have 4 Maizenbergs. The first, published in Ukrainian in 1959, another in Russian 1960, next also Russian 1961 and the last in Russian from 1964. Each features progressively more cameras. None of these have either the Drug or the Leningrad.
I have another by MF Yakovlev, with photos intead of illustrations from 1962 and one by Z. A Vishnevski 1969 which also covers many soviet movie cameras.
anybody wanting copies, photocopies or scans is welcome,
Mike
 
the russian pdf version is avalible from russian rangefinder site i did some babelfish translation but it is not so good with technical word.i think a english version is a must to understad it fully.
 
napchop said:
though they made only feed cassettes, not take up ones. .
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Hey well spotted they wont work on winder side.

I have four types in my junk box and they seem to fit several cameras

Zeiss origionals --- Kiev, ContaxII and Contax IIa
Kiev clones -------- ditto
With locator ------- ditto
With tombstone
icon on locator ---- ditto + Zorki V

(the locator stops the cassette outer turning when in the camera, it fits over a grub screw head.)

I'll have to be good and load film and try in each, I suspect I've only ever used the Zeiss ones in Kievs.

Noel
 
I bought my white cover Maizenberg English version about 5 years ago from Ed Romney (before he died) at this website.

http://www.edromney.com/products.html

I was told that hgis widow is still selling off his inventory. She might have some books left. It is listed on this webpage as Maisenberg (sic).

-Paul
 
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