[Konvas] Kiev 60

[Ole Dost]

Hi Rita,

Congratulations to your new Kiev 60! It´s one of the three 120 Cameras I
have been using and I was very pleased with it.

Perhapes you have to move the transport lever twice. This is what I had to
do with mine to avoid overlapping images. I never owned a Pentacon Six. But
I was told that the pressure the camera has to put on the film is better
with Kiev 60 then with the Pentacon Six. I also heard, that the Kiev 60
ground glass is brighter than the one of the Pentacon Six. 

I think one of the greatest advantages of the Kiev 60, Pentacon 6 (and
Exakta 66, a western made camera with the same lens mount) –“family” is the
choice of good and still affordable lenses. An Arsat fisheye 30mm lens is
very good and still available for about 160 Euros NEW. Any western 120
camera fisheye will be out of reach. It´s the same with 500mm telephoto
lenses.

I regret a little having given away my Kiev 60. It always served me well.

Regards,

Ole 

 

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Gesendet: Montag, 23. März 2009 13:10
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Just to let you know that I have bought a new Kiev 60.

 

I am please with it except for the weight. The top prism seem to be 50% of
the total weight of the camera.

Although I am worried about the build quality especially the mechanism which
sounds as know its a bit dry, so will give it a tiny amount of white grease
on the "wobbly" bits. Its S/N starts with 90 so assume its a 1990 and the
prism starts with 91. Quite an impressive looking camera and being heavy I
will probably use it as a waist level camera and use the neck strap. I
noticed that in the instructions which seems to printed on 'toilet paper',
it says that this camera is for 'amateur use' only, by that I assume it will
not stand up to studio use or heavy handed stuff as with
Rollieflex.Hassie,Mamiya etc. Anyway, the lens might look as though it will
do the business, so will see this week when I will fire off 6 rolls of Fuji.
Will look better if they put some chrome on it just to make it a bit
smarter!  I wonder if the Pentacon 6 is made better?

 

For you collectors out there, I have also bought a Mamiya and a Micro
Precision Products (MPP) 5X4  and a Microcord 120. The last two were bought
out of nostalgia reasons as I used to pass the factory twice a day and never
knew what they made. I thought they made precision stuff for the military
but they made a whole bunch of cameras. Some were for the military but
mostly press cameras and the like. They are now highly collectable (so I am
told) so I bought two. Very precisely made with lots of nickel plating. They
stopped making cameras in 1990 due to the death of the owner Mr Dell.
Understand his son went into the computer business !!!.

 

Anybody know a cheap way of Fuji 120 processing?

 

Thought some of you might be interested.  Rita

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