Kiev 4A, 35mm rangefinder camera, results gallery

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It's a bucket of... well no, it's not. It's a decent camera, weighty but decent. Here I just wanted to see if the focus would pick out the flaking paint on this fire bucket at the camera's minimum focus distance. This was actually the very first frame from the very first roll. New Alresford, UK

And the very last frame on the same roll, Vienna, Austria at the Magnum news agency exhibition of photography. Foto Wien.

Our Kiev 4 was sent to Oleg Khaliavin in Bratislava to be rebuilt. I agreed to meet him in town to collect it and while waiting photographed this statue of Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, a Slovak poet.

Walking back to the railway station later, now weighed down by two of Kiev Arsenal's hefty products, I stopped to rest and take this image of Vyhliadková veža UFO, part of the support structure of the bridge over the River Danube.

Having walked up and down the bridge a few times looking for an angle to frame Bratislava Castle I took the image below, then shot off the one at left to finish off the roll. Typical, I prefer this one as there's a bit more density in the trees and castle roof.

Bratislava Castle framed by bridge structure

Compositionally, I'd prefer to have had the castle a little more into the triangle formed by the bridge structure, but it just wasn't possible.

I enjoy using the Kiev 4A, there's no advantage to having the metered version as they rarely work at all due to the selenium cell dying, besides which the accuracy of the meters is likely questionable. The only fiddle with the Kiev's in general is the shutter speed selection which is a bit hard to read with tiny engravings.