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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Antispam question: Please provide registration password: Answer: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON New! Upload Image Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by dee[/i] [br]It's odd that, among my 20 Kiev/Contax treasures, that a mechanically and cosmetically compromised 1979 Kiev 4a should be the most evocative. I love my hybrid Kontaxes but this mint boxed TOE import to UK, reminds me of many happy moments wandering around the dated and quite dark TOE shops way back when. Of course, carefully checked and fixed where required, TOE cameras were about the best USSR cameras available at the in the UK at this period. Even today, enticing it from it's polystyrene box, the smell of the leather case seems as fresh as the day it was made. There is hardly a mark on it, it works exquisitely [ though it probably leaks by now ] which makes it the nearest I will ever be to a new Contax showing continuity from the mid 30s. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.