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Kiev 88 and Cambron lenses


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Hi Jaisen,

 

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Are you sure about the 55mm shift lense? I've never heard of them producing a shift lense for the Kiev series. I shoot an Exakta 66 and Pentacon six which is the Kiev 60 series and have most of the Carl Zeiss Jena lenses and Schneider lenses but have never run into a shift lense for my 6x6 format. I do know that Schneider made one for the Exakta 66 at $3500 each and they are hard to find here in the USA.

 

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Richard

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Cambron ProSix camera has Pentacon Six bayonet. Kiev-88 has his own mount (marked as bayonet "B" on original Arsenal equipment). That's why you can not use lenses for ProSix on the standard Kiev-88. May be Cambron could replace mount for using 55mm shift with Kiev-88, I don't know.

Kiev Arsenal produce now following lenses (both with Kiev-88 mount and Pentacon Six mount):

- Zodiak-8 - 3.5/30 "fish eye" (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $200,-

- Mir-26 - 3.5/45 (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $250,-

- Mir-38 - 3.5/65 (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $145,-

- MC Arsat 2.8/80 / MC Volna-3 (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $50,-

- MC Vega-28 - 2,8/120 (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $200,-

- Kaleinar-3 - 2.8/150 (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $310,-

- MC Telear-5 - 5.6/250 (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $180,-

- Jupiter-36 - 3.5/250 (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $250,- (probably will not produce from November-December'97)

- Arsat Makro - 5.6/500 (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $990,-

- MC K-6 teleconverter 2x (Kiev-88, P-Six) / $60,-

*MC - multicoated

As I wrote Cambron ProSix camera has Pentacon Six bayonet so can use lenses not only from Kiev Arsenal.

Kiev Arsenal made a few 55mm shift lenses about 8 years ago. That was experimental lot and these lenses has not been produce any more (you see, Soviet Union desintegration, economic weakening etc.; the same story with Kiev-90, Kiev-645 MF-cameras).

 

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Regards,

Alexander Pisarenko, Kalimex s.r.o.

mailto:kalimex@dedal.cz

http://www.dedal.cz - Night Vision Devices

http://www.dedal.cz/OD_C_EN.html - Optical Devices

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  • 8 months later...

Ed Lau asked about the Cambron medium format 500mm f/8 lenses for $399 plus $40 for sundry medium format mounts (6x4.5 and 6x6 focal plane SLRs mainly..). This lens is an outstanding bargain for a medium format 500mm f/8 lens, with reportedly decent to very good performance. The lens for medium format use was reviewed in Pop Photo in 11/97 (rated surprisingly sharp at the corners etc.) by H.Keppler.

The good news is that you may be able to save half of the cost by buying the 500mm f/8 lens ($100 new) yourself and mating it to a Dr. Zorkendorfer lens mount tube ($100 US) plus any desired mount adapters. These 500mm f/8 lenses were imported under a variety of names, including Cambron, from the Korean mfgers for circa $100 new.

 

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Actually, you can do better than that, as I did, by buying the 500mm f/8 lens used (circa $50) for the multicoated version. The rear lens tube just screws off, adapter screws on, you are in business ;-)

for photo of dis-assembled 500mm f/8 lens, see http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/bronbroc/bronlong2.jpg

 

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Finally, you can really cut your costs if you make your own mount adapter from a camera body cap (or one of the above mount adapters?), epoxy, and some PVC pipe pieces (blacken with flat black paint on inside). For as little as $75, you can have a 500mm f/8 medium format lens - or spend $200 US to buy the lens and buy tubes from Dr. Zork.

 

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For more details on homebrew medium format lens options, see my page at http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/bronhb.html - Enjoy!! bobm

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