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Used Kiev III for Sale — From £75

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Kiev's metered Contax copy — 35mm rangefinder, Contax RF bayonet, selenium meter, Zeiss tooling, 1952.

The Kiev III is a Soviet 35mm rangefinder built at the Arsenal plant in Kiev, based on the Contax tooling that Zeiss transferred to the USSR after the Second World War. It appeared around 1952 as the metered member of the early Kiev line, adding a selenium exposure meter to the Contax-copy body. It sits alongside the meterless Kiev II within the same rangefinder family.

This is a 35mm coupled-rangefinder camera on the Contax RF bayonet, with the inner-and-outer mount arrangement of the Contax system. It uses a vertical-travel metal focal-plane shutter of the Contax type and a combined rangefinder and viewfinder window. Focusing is by the coupled rangefinder. The III adds an uncoupled selenium meter on the top housing; exposure is set manually from the meter reading.

The Kiev III suits users who want a Contax-type rangefinder with a built-in light meter for daylight work, while retaining the Contax lens mount and Soviet Jupiter or Zeiss optics. The selenium meter needs no battery, and the body itself is fully mechanical, so it operates without any power source. Its handling follows the pre-war Contax pattern.

On the used market the Kiev III is affordable and offers strong value, but the sample-to-sample quality-control variance typical of former-Soviet-Union bodies means each unit should be assessed. Check the rangefinder patch contrast and vertical alignment, inspect the metal focal-plane shutter for capping and damage, and confirm slow speeds run true. Selenium meters of this age are often weak or dead, so treat the meter as a bonus rather than a guarantee and verify its response.