Show Off Your FSU

The Kiev 4AM got a comrade ...

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I just bought my first film rangefinder - A Fed-4 popped up in the local classifieds, just around the corner from my place. I walked down with €30 in my pocket and here she is:

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Not the most beautiful camera there is, I give you that, but everything seems to work and I'm looking forward to shooting my first roll of 135mm film in 15 years.
 
Just bought this beauty.
In very good condition, with accurate RF, shutter and lens are also very good, just needed little dust cleaning and start with first roll. :)

 
My Leningrad, Kiev 2 and Zorki C.
I just received the Leningrad today, I owned one 40 years ago and I was pleased to see that the viewfinder is as good as I remembered it.
The Helios lens on the Kiev is phenomenal and the Zorki would be truly pocketable if it wasn't so heavy.
 

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Never owned Kiev or Contax but knowing history behind Kiev it isn't that big surprise that it's hard to identify fake for amateur like me. Combined with black paint looks sassy

Sonnar is at least real deal? :)
 
Not likely. The "Sonnar" looks like a Jupiter 8-M lens. Still a very good lens though.

Cheers,
Dez
 
Definitely a fake Sonnar, Aapo. Dez is right. It is really a Jupiter-8M, as seen on my other un-disguised 1978 Kiev 4A, which just arrived today. It still behaves like a real Sonnar lens, with good contrast and bokeh. I think the lens coatings may have got better on the late 1970's lenses, as flare resistance is good too.
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This arrived last Saturday, not an RF, but definitely an FSU.

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Kiev 88, with film magazines, TTL meter and macro tube all in a nice case.
 
Or to put the Kiev out of it's misery.
I haven't run any film through it yet, but it creaks and grinds something fierce when I wind the shutter :)
 
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