Kiev 10
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The Kiev-10 (Cyrillic: Киев-10 Автомат or автомат) was manufactured in the Arsenal factory- possibly from 1965 to 1974, and is perhaps one of the strangest and most innovative cameras to come from the Soviet Union. It is a large, heavy 35mm SLR with a light meter, the first Soviet automatic exposure system, microcrystals for focusing (which first appeared on Zenits in the '80s), and a line of excellent lenses in its own bayonet mount shared with the Kiev 15 TEE.
Various sources mention a CdS TTL[1] metering system, but the camera has what looks like a very prominent selenium meter window above the lens, on the front of the prism housing. TTL metering had to wait for the Kiev 15.
The Kiev 10 used a metallic fan shutter at the focal plane. It offered shutter speeds from 1/2 to 1/1000s, and X-sync at 1/60s.
Links
- Alfred Klomp's Kiev 10 page
- BPW Limited's Soviet Camera Page includes the Kiev 10
- English translation of User Manual by Irina Martynenko
- The photohistory.ru site's Kiev 10 page includes many pictures of the Kiev-10 and some of the Kiev-15, with text in Russian
- Kiev 10 on sovietcams.com
- ↑ e.g. rus-camera.com
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