Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/29

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Subject: [Leica] Fedka
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sun Jan 29 11:02:07 2006
References: <f0dcc1f0addb.f0addbf0dcc1@shaw.ca> <43DCB75E.27705.E5A6D6@localhost>
 
On 1/29/06, R. Clayton McKee <leica@rcmckee.com> wrote:
>  I think there was SOMETHING Russian
> that it was supposedly bad for the camera to change the shutter speed
> once you'd cocked the shutter, but that was years ago and I don't
> recall anything more... and I'm not sure I've ever actually laid eyes
> on a 35mm Kiev.

The other way around. You shouldn't change the shutter speed until you
have cocked the shutter. If you do it on a Zorki, you will break it.
If you do it on a Kiev, you probably just won't get the correct
shutter speed, but you won't break it.

Kiev survival site:

http://www3.telus.net/public/rpnchbck/index.html

There's not much too them. You do everything yourself.

Daniel
In reply to: Message from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] Fedka)
Message from leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] Fedka)