What is the cheapest used Kiev 4 in the UK?

The cheapest used Kiev 4 currently listed is £45.88 at eBay, based on 5 listings compared across 1 UK retailers.

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Used Kiev 4 for Sale — From £46

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Kiev's later metered Contax copy — 35mm rangefinder, Contax RF bayonet, selenium meter, 1957.

The Kiev 4 is a Soviet 35mm rangefinder from the Arsenal plant in Kiev, part of the long production run of Contax copies built from Zeiss tooling transferred to the USSR after the Second World War. It entered production around 1957 as the metered model of the later Kiev line. It keeps the Contax bayonet mount and the mechanical design that traces back to the pre-war Zeiss Contax.

This is a 35mm coupled-rangefinder camera on the Contax RF bayonet, with the Contax inner-and-outer mount arrangement. It uses a vertical-travel metal focal-plane shutter of the Contax type and a combined rangefinder and viewfinder window, focusing via the coupled rangefinder. The Kiev 4 includes an uncoupled selenium exposure meter on the top plate; exposure is set manually from the meter reading.

The Kiev 4 suits users who want a durable Contax-style rangefinder with a built-in meter and the wide Contax lens range, pairing with Soviet Jupiter optics and period Zeiss lenses. Its selenium meter needs no battery and the mechanical body fires without power, making it a practical everyday film rangefinder. Handling follows the familiar Contax focusing-wheel layout.

On the used market the Kiev 4 is common, inexpensive and offers strong value, but the sample-to-sample quality-control variance typical of former-Soviet-Union bodies means each one should be checked. Inspect the rangefinder patch for contrast and vertical alignment, examine the metal focal-plane shutter for capping or damage, and confirm the slow speeds run true. The selenium meter is often weak with age, so test it rather than relying on it.