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A sophisticated vertical-travel metal shutter (roller-blind) with speeds ranging from 1/2 to 1/1250th of a second, plus Bulb mode.

Uses the Contax bayonet mount , making it compatible with high-quality Soviet Jupiter and Helios lenses, as well as original Carl Zeiss Jena optics. Kiev 4 Camera Review

While the combined rangefinder/viewfinder is large, it is notoriously small for eyeglass wearers and lacks parallax correction. Kiev 4 – The Non-Clone - Photo Thinking and engineers—from Dresden

Following World War II, the Soviet Union relocated the entire Contax production line—including tooling, parts, and engineers—from Dresden, Germany, to Kiev as war reparations. Early models were often assembled using original German parts. Kiev 4 Camera Review