Spice up the Kiev!

[Laika]

Dear Friend,
I own both, and in my view, besides the compactness of the Helios, there is no comparizon at all... <snip>....But perhaps you have a different view and may want to express it.

Regards,
Ruben

While I agree the soviet turret finders are very nice (I have used one) I find them a bit on the bulky side for general use. I also like having a finder that shows more than the given lens will capture, it allows me to see what is close to the frame edges and also shows anything about to move into/thru the frame. That being said I'm sure a finder that shows ~28mm to the edges with 35mm, 85mm, 135mm frame lines (the Helios) has to be crude to use with a 85/135 lens, here the turret will leave it for dead, also the turret has parallax adjustment that’s got to be handy using the longer lenses say for portraits. My interest in the Helios was because I mostly use 35mm and 50mm lenses and only very occasionally a 85mm (I'm yet to use/own a 135mm) a finder that gives ~28mm to the edges, 35mm frame lines, a minimal 50mm marker of some sort and 85mm frame lines (no 135mm) would be my ideal jack of all trades finder. Given that the Helios finder were being sold for £6 each on sale and is close to my ideal I thought it would be worth a look 🙂

 

[ruben]

My interest in the Helios was because I mostly use 35mm and 50mm lenses and only very occasionally a 85mm (...) would be my ideal jack of all trades finder. Given that the Helios finder were being sold for £6 each on sale and is close to my ideal I thought it would be worth a look 🙂

Total agreement and thank you for helping me destinating my Helios.

Cheers,

Ruben

 

[kmack]

Is there some way of putting "Kievaholics" on my Ignore list? I'm constantly fighting KievGAS as it is and then some Max has to go post pics like this...

...schweeeet, Max... ya done good!

You can't fight it. I had firmly told myself that I was going to stay with a single lens mount an only one mount. I broke my rule for the Kiev. Once you hear the shutter go thunk! at 125 you're hooked forever.

 

[darkkavenger]

Exactly, Kevin! 😀 ... ooooh noo i'm going to bring my kiev back to the office!

 

[Laika]

Just to add a little more Kiev spice to the thread here is a pic of my Kiev 4AM with a J12 I picked up for $14 on eb*y (The "Kievaholics" must have all been asleep that night 😀 ). Sadly this camera is a shelf queen till I can find or make a replacement spool. Now I'm single and should be moving into a house with another crazy FSU RF user soon I hope to get this tasty little camera back into action.

Oh speaking of the shutter sounds I just love the wheezy squelch of the Kiev slow speeds 😎

 

[darkkavenger]

yesss the slow speeds rock!