Camera Talk

Now it’s a family treasure

I think that's a keeper.

Now we are waiting the photos taken with it
I can send you something if you want, Contax type?

Thanks Alex, I may take your word on that one!
I just bought a Kiev4A from KEH, it's supposed to come with the soviet version of the same lens (Jupiter 3)
It will be interesting to see any differences; and to see if the camera works well

I remembered that Cosina made a Contax-mount Bessa but the prices of those are ridiculous

alexvaras wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 24, 2021 1:41 am

Now we are waiting the photos taken with it
I can send you something if you want, Contax type?

I guess I'm in luck
The Kiev4A from KEH came with the Soviet copy of the Sonnar 50/1.5 from 1952.
The lens seems to be in decent shape

Jupiter 3(1952) vs Sonnar V1 (1932)

The camera is OK, seems to have been taken good care of.
It's fun to play with and the speeds from 25-250 seem OK
The slow speeds (10-5-2) seem too fast and the high speed (1250) not trustable anyways

The Sonnar 50/1.5 seems to be a wonderful lens, I ran a few test in Fomapan
I'll send the lens for cleaning/service next week

Test Sonnar 50/1.5 at 1.5

f/1.5 f/2.0f/5.6

Jupiter 3 , I took it to Chicago and walked around.
Nice lens also.
f/1.5
flare is a problem, which is not uncommon for uncoated lenses
Halloween display at f/1.5

Nice photos, I like 1 and 3 from J-3.

Seems that you have a nice Soviet lens.

The Carl Zeiss lens was not properly set, i.e. it was not focusing correclty
I had it serviced and will develop the roll and share