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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]I am awaiting my Contax III / IV- with 1958 Kiev 4 top plate from Ukraine . Formed from a scrap C III body bought soley as spares for the meter of my original C III . It seemed a shame to waste a reasonable body LOL Brian Sweeney , who loves playing with Jupiter 3 lenses , has sent me a 1959 J 3 , in original Sonnar mount as a gift for my Collusion some may say Collision cameras . I am not certain that it's possible to be a Kiev-oholic without the Contax ancestor making an appearance . It was Brian who suggested that it may be preferable to fix a Contax II / III with Kiev donors , rather than yet another pre-war Contax being broken up . Kiev collectors may not agree though ! There IS an ex-USSR connection with the trio of Contax II III IV cameras that I am eagerly awaiting , in that the Arsenal techs have restored / recreated them for me . I love this connection to Kiev / Contax history . The C II with a Kiev shutter will be siver paint body with silver faced J 8 lens . I confess that another Kiev IIIa / IV will have a genuine Contax face plate , hopefully painted black . [ I always wanted a Black Contax Copy, but was unsure of the quality and prefered the original style body - this will be a better quality fake LOL ] Maybe a black J 8 to match ? Conversely , a really rough , cheap , Contax II fascia donor will have a 1947 script face plate , painted metallic blue , it's really neat to make a Kiev badged Contax II LOL I intended to make a working rat camera , but it's not quite my scene ! It will be complemented by a Blue paint 1956 Kiev IIIa - with KIEV in English , on the meter door and Blue paint Jupiter 8 . Initially concerned about creating my dream Kontaxes , there are so many Contax / Kiev cameras out there , that my half dozen creations will scarcely make a ripple in the pool . I do have original cameras - KNeB II 1951 CLA / near mint KNeB II 1952 / Contax III retored / boxed Kiev 4a Uk sourced , mint . Some which are not checked or CLA - Kiev IIa 1956 Kiev III 1954 / 1955 , Kiev IIIa 1956 , Kiev 4 1957 / 1959 / 1963 / 1979 [ UK import ] I am simply deelighted to be able to create my collection with a camer which is so '' accessible '' to my Autistic Glitch . Also , I can IDee with cameras which are somehow across a dee'vide or IDee stolen / compromised . It's like my kind of ' people ' camera . Funds are now exhausted , but I hope that my two ' sets ' of three profiles II III IV , will give me years of dee'light . [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.