Post by dee on Oct 5, 2015 15:37:19 GMT -5
I have my 'Contax IV ' next to me as i write .
Somehow my mind seems to have adopted Contax/Kiev as ' right / real '.
The body is 1937 ex-Contax III and then top plate is a rare, but unrecognised , 1957 Kiev 4 [ without the strengthening ridges on the meter cover to prevent the dints in the thin metal ] - 20 years in one camera ! I love that !
I could have had a much later Kiev 4 meter etc fitted , but quality in the very first Kiev 4 , whereby the engineers were proud of their modernising with limited resources was infinitely better .
I also have a Kiev 3a/4 - 1956 first type body with modernised 1957 Kiev 4 meter etc. There is evidence that some such hybrids were made to use up older bodies , but tho is a rehash .
Next to the Contax IV is a mint boxed UK TOE Kiev 4a of 1979 although I also have a 1981 Kiev 4m with dark blue leather and my silver/tan Contax II from 1935 .
Such continuity and ' sameness ' from 1935 to 1980 , 45 years , must be rare , and just having them around is somehow calming .
Certainly my favourite film camera/s !
dee
Somehow my mind seems to have adopted Contax/Kiev as ' right / real '.
The body is 1937 ex-Contax III and then top plate is a rare, but unrecognised , 1957 Kiev 4 [ without the strengthening ridges on the meter cover to prevent the dints in the thin metal ] - 20 years in one camera ! I love that !
I could have had a much later Kiev 4 meter etc fitted , but quality in the very first Kiev 4 , whereby the engineers were proud of their modernising with limited resources was infinitely better .
I also have a Kiev 3a/4 - 1956 first type body with modernised 1957 Kiev 4 meter etc. There is evidence that some such hybrids were made to use up older bodies , but tho is a rehash .
Next to the Contax IV is a mint boxed UK TOE Kiev 4a of 1979 although I also have a 1981 Kiev 4m with dark blue leather and my silver/tan Contax II from 1935 .
Such continuity and ' sameness ' from 1935 to 1980 , 45 years , must be rare , and just having them around is somehow calming .
Certainly my favourite film camera/s !
dee
