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ruben
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I am thinking about writing a series of systematic postings with photo illustrations, on the Kiev cameras, with several purposes in mind. One of them is to serve the beginner, from the stage he/she evaluates if this cameras are good for him/she, up to the stage she/he with the previous experience of the abovementioned postings, becomes skilled enough to enter the Kiev Survival Site, without "headaches", in cases he choses to. But if not, there are a lot of things that she/he still can do.
Who is a beginner? Certainly he/she is not an idiot. He/she is a person like me that given the proper level explanation can step up and up in the staircase of knowledge. If we want our Kiev cameras to be used more and more, if we want ourselves discover new things about them, if we want more people involved in the FSU forum, then we have to extend to the beginner such a staircase.
Secondly there are here a lot of experiences with the surrounding gear, its use and transformation, that can be gathered.
Thirdly, there is no reason why not gathering picture samples of the quality of Kiev lenses, in a systematic way by lens focal length and type. A past picture thread on the Jupiter-3, was astonishing.
Fourth, many of us have changed the look of our Kievs, with some of us posting pics and I suspect many of us not.
Since the whole project will be done as postings here, we all will have the opportunity to put our diverging opinions on the matters addressed at the corresponding posting I will be writing. I have the suspiction that a lot of knowledge is sleeping and we can awake it via debate, controversy and commentaries.
I think we deserve such a project, the Kiev cameras ceirtanly deserve it, and at the same time we will be teaching newcomers, we will be learning as well.
I myself have a lot of things to say not just to the beginner, but I want to say intelligent things in a way everyone can understand. This is a skill by itself and I am confident to match the challenge.
Ok fellows, what do you think ?
Cheers,
Ruben
PS
Who belongs to "the kiev community" ?
Everyone from the one lurking towards, via the digital user with a FSU lens, all FSU fellows and of course, our Contax brethren.
Who is a beginner? Certainly he/she is not an idiot. He/she is a person like me that given the proper level explanation can step up and up in the staircase of knowledge. If we want our Kiev cameras to be used more and more, if we want ourselves discover new things about them, if we want more people involved in the FSU forum, then we have to extend to the beginner such a staircase.
Secondly there are here a lot of experiences with the surrounding gear, its use and transformation, that can be gathered.
Thirdly, there is no reason why not gathering picture samples of the quality of Kiev lenses, in a systematic way by lens focal length and type. A past picture thread on the Jupiter-3, was astonishing.
Fourth, many of us have changed the look of our Kievs, with some of us posting pics and I suspect many of us not.
Since the whole project will be done as postings here, we all will have the opportunity to put our diverging opinions on the matters addressed at the corresponding posting I will be writing. I have the suspiction that a lot of knowledge is sleeping and we can awake it via debate, controversy and commentaries.
I think we deserve such a project, the Kiev cameras ceirtanly deserve it, and at the same time we will be teaching newcomers, we will be learning as well.
I myself have a lot of things to say not just to the beginner, but I want to say intelligent things in a way everyone can understand. This is a skill by itself and I am confident to match the challenge.
Ok fellows, what do you think ?
Cheers,
Ruben
PS
Who belongs to "the kiev community" ?
Everyone from the one lurking towards, via the digital user with a FSU lens, all FSU fellows and of course, our Contax brethren.
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