[Konvas] Kiev 60

[Ole Dost]

Dan,

The portraits on your web site are really great! Are you using medium format
cameras? And if so –what MF Camera are you using?

Regards,

Ole

 

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Von: cinema-bounces at konvas.org [mailto:cinema-bounces at konvas.org] Im Auftrag
von Dan Cordle
Gesendet: Montag, 23. März 2009 16:15
An: Cinema Konvas
Betreff: Re: [Konvas] Kiev 60

 

Hey Rita! Congrats on the new cameras. I'm not familiar with the MPP 5x4.
That's great. You'll have fun with the Kiev too.
Processing color is a little more involved than BW. BW is so easy, the only
reason to use a lab is if you're feeling lazy. For 120 film, I use a
Paterson tank with Kodak Xtol. I just got some Rodinal to experiment with.
I'm planning on using the Rodinal for processing cine film in a Morse Tank.
If you wind up getting a daylight tank like the Paterson, it's good to get
one that holds more than one roll of 120 film. Mine only holds one, so it
takes a bit of time to process several rolls.
 

Dan Cordle 
(646) 235-8957 
www.dancordle.com <http://www.dancordle.com/> 


 

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From: Speedbirdmgh at aol.com
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:10:07 -0400
To: cinema at konvas.org
Subject: Re: [Konvas] Kiev 60




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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