PSA Hartblei is still shipping new Kiev 60s in 6x6 and 645 out of Ukraine, tweaked so frame spacing shouldn't be an issue, at least not for a couple decades😂 I opted to move to a new K60 in 645, since I like the simplicity vs my prior Bronica ETRSI. Great video - excellent instructions!
There are two things I've learned today. How to fix the spacing on a Kiev 60 and that you are a software engineer. I did not know that. Film photography and software engineering. Same here. Balancing digital with analog. Way to go.:) Great video, as always. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, I can quickly lose a screw and break everything with C++, too, but it is hard to make anything too tight ... unlike with these fragile Soviet cameras!
@@ShootOnFilm I develop software for a long time, +35 years, and sometimes in the real world I look for the undo button when I break something. I guess you know the feeling. lol
I've used a lot of these DIY repair videos over the years for lots of fixes and many of them overlook very small but significant details - like the order in which you stack spacers or orientation of various components. You do a really nice job of keeping a first-timer on point. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Also thought about the need to use a dab of thread lock on the locking screw (?) It can be a real improvement but - also - be careful about which blend you use. some are more aggressive and difficult - almost permanent - others are quite easy to remove.
Loctite might be too aggressive. As a starting point you can always use a dab of shellac. It can be reversed with alcohol. If you have a woodworking friend they can give you some. If the viscosity is too low, just leave the top off the jar and it will thicken up. If it’s too thick add alcohol. I think it was commonly used in old cameras.
Wonderful video, Ari!! Thank you so much for showing us this fix. I have a Kiev 60 that I’ll be using this spring and summer and it’s good to know how to adjust it! 🎉👍🏻
I was chatting with my girlfriends uncles a year or so ago about musical synthesis, and one of her uncles casually said “our dad was friends with Bob [Moog] we met him”
That was an interesting tutorial, thanks! While I don't have a Kiev 60, my former Praktica 6x6 was plagued by the same problem. I didn't have it fixed and sold it. I've since heard that both cameras are very similar and I wonder if your tutorial could have also corrected my Praktica's defect. But that was in pre-internet days.
I keep a couple of o.o.d. films for spacing purposes. I try not to wind it on totally so that rewinding back onto its spool the film and paper registration do not become out of sync due to the difference in circumferences when wound. If they do you have to pull the film forward by about 1.0/1.5cm just before it gets trapped under the paper backing as it engages with the film spool so hopefully the film sits in its original registration with the paper. If not the tape holding the film onto the paper becomes wrinkled and doesn't sit well due to the film creeping within the paper. Great vid maestro!
Nice Ari. I would like to see your work in darkroom on the enlarger and so on, which is the essence of analoge photography at least in mine opinion. What type of enlarger, paper and paper size you use?
I will hopefully post more darkroom stuff in the future. I have two enlargers -- but I mostly use my Fujimoto M450. I like fibre-based matt papers, and 30x30cm or 30x50 cm is what I can easily print. Bigger, and I start to run out of equipment :-)
Awesome, will check mine as well. Actually I used to crank normally and then a little bit addionally between the frames but sometimes it fails. Do you have any tipps where to blackpaint the light tunnel within the Kiev to avoid reflections on the right part of the frame ?
Just everything that shines is bad :-) But 2 ideas: some lenses, like Volna3, have a preview lever that closes the aperture blades ... and in some cases that starts to leak light. Then, if you have a vertical line, chances are that it is not a light leak or reflection but an uneven shutter curtain movement.
@@ShootOnFilm ah, well, thanks, as it seems the shutter curtain itself (vertical line) could have a weak area. But despite that I recognised the same light leak in a 15min exposure.
I also bought a Kiev 60 2 weeks ago. But mine has too many problems. But thanks for the info, I think it's a nice camera. But I feel like I'm photographing with a big rock.
:-). There is no engine oil as this is 2 stroke. I changed gear box oil when I took the boat out: no cream, solid and clean. So no oil leaks. To change the color you’d need much more oil than about 0.5 liter that is in the gear box.
If you're not aware, many Russian cameras are replicas of established global brands. Economic constraints led them to mimic these models at a lower cost. Unfortunately, this replication often results in cameras that are troublesome for users, prone to frequent malfunctions. Even my Zenit 11, presumably an affordable alternative, suffered from improper assembly at the factory. I strongly advise steering clear of these cameras altogether.
I love these cameras. But true. Soviets not only copied but stole German factories and moved them over. Kiev, too. The whole Kiev camera factory was based on machinery stolen from Carl Zeiss factories ... here's a bit more: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8RJcWE3mhHA.htmlsi=2-VgNtlbEZwkwEAH
Well, I will say only one thing....If ex big Finnish company did make digital camera which looks like nice, good quality film camera and had cca 12 MPix and produced files that look EXACTLY like yours (we can called them film simulations), hmmm, maybe they will be really successful.... Nokia and Leica today...not bad thought. Instead ,they had strange ideas about using quasi Linux for operating system and not go with the flow.... 😵 He-he.
