[Konvas] Kiev 60

[Dan Cordle]

Thank you Ole for your kind words. I use large, medium and 35mm digital cameras. The medium format shots were taken with a Rolleiflex MX, 3.5 Tessar, a Hasselblad or Mamiya R67. Actually, many of the medium format shots taken with a Rolleiflex. You can kind of tell which are they are. They have a kind of soft glow. I assume it's because the lens is old, single coated, and not in in pristine condition. The digital shots were taken with a Canon 5D. For the portraits, I used all of the cameras except the Ansco.

Best,

Dan Cordle 
(646) 235-8957 
www.dancordle.com


 


From: Ole.Dost at t-online.de
To: cinema at konvas.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:50:00 +0100
Subject: Re: [Konvas] Kiev 60







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
 




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


 



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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