Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Be careful if considering a Kiev 5. It is an interesting camera but I don't think it takes the Contax mount lenses. I was told that only the 50mm Helios and 50mm Jupiter were made for the 5. Other lenses were planned but never produced in the outer bayonet mount. R. Carlisle Marc James Small wrote: > At 06:53 PM 1/3/2000 -0800, Mark Langer wrote: > > > > > >The Kiev 5 indicates the direction that Zeiss might have gone in to > >produce a camera more competitive with the M Leica. Definitely one of the > >great examples of an underrated camera. > > Well, Zeiss Ikon marked the way they were thinking of going with their two > Versuchs-Contax IV bodies, both produced fifteen years before the Kiev 5. > I'll admit the Kiev 5 is an interesting and capable camera, though I've > never kept any of the exemplars which have passed through my hands -- > though I do have all the other types and shoot with them on occasion. But, > then, I'm a Zeiss Ikon type of guy, I guess! > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!