Whoever did the swap put the Contax focus wheel on the Kiev shutter (there's a slot down the middle on the milled edge).Īll the seller's current items, and all the completed listings I can see, are photographic, so he ought to know what he is selling, but many quite big sellers seem surprisingly ignorant, and presumably don't have time to research everything online. Every Contax that I have seen has an aluminium-coloured sprocket spindle. The sprocket spindle appears to be black. There is no evidence of the Kiev 4 flash connection on the inside, so it would have to be Contax, Kiev II or Kiev III. The top covering looks Kiev-like, not Contax leather.īack: definitely genuine, for too many reasons to list.īody: almost certainly genuine. It was one of a series of pictures the photographer took featuring the life and. Top-casting: almost certainly Kiev - probably necessary with the Kiev meter. Anyone capable of doing such a good job of taking off the Kiev logo, engraving Contax, and re-plating, would have made a MUCH better job of faking the rest! As darkosaric suggests, someone had a Contax III with a faulty meter and faulty shutter, and decided to make it into a usable camera with the help of a Kiev 4.įront plate: genuine.
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