Kiev 60 Ttl How To Control Cookies

Thus was born the first Kiev 6C (it would be more correct to say 6S), a mammoth SLR with decidedly boxy lines which rest in production for fourteen years, until 1985: this model was a great success, to the point that Arsenal drew an improved version, precisely the Kiev 60 sold in 1984, which took the role of direct antagonist of the Pentacon Six.

In that regard, often reads like the Kiev is a mere copy of the Pentacon while, in my opinion, you should consider it more a rework as well as a tentative to improve the original.

Compared to 6C, the new 60 loses the ability to use 220 film but, gains improvements in ergonomics and prism viewfinder.

Going in order, the Kiev 60 TTL presents with sharp but clean l ines, few commands located mainly on the upper cover in which stands out the large footprint prism viewfinder.

On the left side of the cap there is the selection wheel for shutter speeds, while on the other side there are the loading lever, the frame counter window and the reminders of the speed of the film.

The controls are all here and all that remains to do is to eventually use the exposure of the pentaprism.

First, the scale feeling is quite unusual for us, being the values according to the standard DIN and GOST: luckily, it is easy to convert to common ISO ASA values; the sensitivity adjustment thru dedicated wheel is the first step to be followed after previously engaged the shutter (the case of TTL metering, with mirror up nothing is detected).

At this point you turn on the meter using the three-position button on the left side and the same is also used to check up the battery, whose charge is confirmed by the LEDs positioned next to the command.

At this point, you can turn off the meter and choose any of the time aperture couples that you read in the rings.

The procedure is rather cumbersome partly because you have to operate while holding a two and more kilograms of weight: it is probably easier to use an external exposure or rely on the experience and Sunny 16 rule.

The batteries, finally, are housed on the left side and closed with the classic cap.

On the bottom we find, instead, the commands of the roll retaining spring, the back opening button and the threaded tripod.

Conversely, it can use different beautiful lenses, also of Soviet origin, including the fisheye Arsat Zodiak 30mm (roughly equivalent to a 16mm in 135).

Particular attention should be paid to the initial loading of the film and the subsequent cocking of the shutter, best is to make movements with light trying to always accompany the loading lever, in order to avoid problems of irregular spacing or overlap between frames.

A check of the seals and lubrication in general counts as first tip once purchased while for the rest, the Kiev 60 (the two in my possession for sure) does not seem to have the need to change the timing only after resetting the shutter, worth breaking mechanisms: here you can easily do, sooner or later.

Lenses, however, often have values much higher (up to over 400 ), which on average are unjustified.

Do you have any idea where I could find the cover for the battery department of the TTL prism meter Thank you in advance, Kostis.

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