Posted - Dec 25 2017 : 7:56:30 PM Interesting. Can you still use the camera's normal controls? How much are they? I did look into digital backs when I had a Bronica ETRSi (apologies for swearing, lol), but at the time what I could find out showed that the backs were £10,000 or more and some of them had to linked to a laptop, at least as far as I understood it.
xya
Posted - Dec 16 2017 : 3:48:43 PM the phase one backs were developed for 4.5x6 cameras, so the sensors are mainly 40x53mm. the kiev 88 cameras were also sold in a "hartblei" variant, a company, based in kiev, which re-engineered the original kiev 88 and its lenses. they were still cheap, but reliable. I had them years ago. no problem with them.
Posted - Dec 16 2017 : 1:56:00 PM I agree with Alfa2 - the lens resolution and general engineering is just not there. Looking at the sensor, it is small - maybe 35mm size? Still I really like the look of my Zenith 80 and have had great enjoyment from getting it working correctly!
Steve
Alfa2
Posted - Dec 14 2017 : 3:51:15 PM Digital back is interesting thing but Kiev 88 is difficult to operate camera. Sbd told: You don't take photos with Kiev 88, you fight with the camera to take photos.
