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Photos sent by visitors to the site:
'Self Portrait' by David Rodriguez in Holland, taken with 1964 Kiev 4, inside photo by Karen De Groot , taken with Nikon.
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and from Darrell Mankin in USA
"Just a brief note on the Skolnik - after shooting it the second time, it was apparent to me that it had the same feel as the Holga, as far as appearance of the images. This particular camera has a very sharp spot in the middle and goes down a bit. I also noticed that the viewing glass is slightly different from what the lens sees, composure-wise. After composing some images on the center, I noticed the final result shows a little cropping on the top. But much like the Holga, you just have to take notes on the imperfections and make the adjustments during the shoot.
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There has been a lot of questions on some of the features of this camera. Such
as whether the lens is glass or plastic. I have recently visited Aidas' website
(http://www.sovietcams.com/
) and posted some questions. Although, he doesn't have the camera at the
moment he does have the manual (in Russian) and he was more than happy to
translate an answer to a couple of my questions. For one thing, he says the
manual refers to the lens with two optical glasses and refers nothing more than
that. And as far as shutter speed, I've seen others mention 1/60 and or 1/30.
However, the manual refers to the shutter as being 1/125, which I feel is a bit
more accurate. After shooting in both overcast and bright sunny day using
FP125, I found that F8 setting worked well under the shade and on an overcast
day, and F11 under the bright sun. However, I don't care much to shoot under a
bright sun.
Regardless of what the manual says about the optics, I'm still not convinced
that it is glass. Sometimes glass is referred to something transparent and I
feel that the manual is referring to the optics in a very vague way. After
carefully inspecting it, I honestly think that it is made of plastic. I also
think so after seeing the final result and how the blurry part of the images are
very similar to that made of a plastic lens. But that's just my two cents on
that."
http://www.darrellmankin.org/photoblog/
Note: Princelle's refers to a lens with glass elements and the viewfinder being composed of plastic elements.
I've since stripped a Shkolnik down to check and the lens is glass. Viewfinder elements are plastic.
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Jonathan Pitt in UK sent these pics taken with
Moskow 5:
'I've looked at the Moskva range and have got a 5 as I said, except the seller has cobbled on together, it is a 5 in the body but has the earlier shutter and the whole thing is slightly less than stable, here are a couple of shots from it.'
and Fed NKVD 1939:
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Sasha's Kiev 60