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I have recently gotten into taking photographs using film, despite popular believe film is not dead, and I wanted to get a great camera. After quite a bit of investigation and talking with fellow photographers in the film area I fell in love with the Kiev 88CM. I bought one off of eBay in a brand new state with upgrades applied. This is a photo of the camera itself
This camera looks old, like it had been built back in the 60′s or something but it was actually built somewhere between 1999 and 2004 in Kiev, Ukraine. The company Arsenal, who mostly specialized in the creation of weapons and was funded by the Ukraine government, got into the business of creating film cameras and this is one of their last models, or so my research has said, and it’s an update to the Kiev 88 model. The design of the Kiev 88 and Kiev 88CM was based off of the Hasselblad 1000 and 1600 models.
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This post is for those wanting a Google Wave invite.
Just add a comment below and I’ll contact asap so that we can get you added to the invite list so that you can access Google Wave.
-LM
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The site got a make over this weekend and I can proudly say that it’s the best web design that I’ve done for this website, it even passed the validation done by the World Wide Web Consortium.
The new design features a new section called “Daily Photo” which is displayed in the front page of the site, though I highly doubt that I’ll be able to make it a daily post but will certainly try, and showcases one photo that I’ve chosen. Comments can be done on any of the posts as well as the Daily Photo.
Underneath every post that’s shown on the blog you will see the latest comment that has been made on that particular post.
Leave your comments about the new design on this post :)
-LM
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One of my self-portraits was selected among those entered in the contest that’s being held by Nicole Hill on her “a little sussy” blog.
She has opened the voting session for the people’s choice for best self-portrait and there are some really good ones there, go check it out and don’t forget to vote for your favorite self-portrait ;)
-LM
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Yesterday the site stopped working while I was attempting to get a new post out the door so I ended up rebuilding the site.
I’ll be bringing back a couple of posts which had a lot of comments or were very popular but in the meantime all we have is just two posts :)
-LM
Latest comment on this post:
Thanks for the comment. I highly recommend getting one as it's a great camera. I got it from a seller in Norcross, Georgia but I highly recommend checking with the seller if the camera has had any upgrades or if the light seals have been checked, though I'm very happy with my camera there are a couple of issues that I need to get fixed and those are that the magazines aren't very fluid when advancing the film and that I have a small light leak.
Though the issues I have are not causing the camera to fail completely it's something that I need to get resolved so I'd suggest to get in contact with the seller to check up on the camera. If you can spend a little more and get it from Arax or Hartblei then I'd suggest doing so because they test and upgrade the cameras they sell hence the price being a bit higher than the ones on ebay.
As a final note, there are a couple of tips regarding the usage of the camera that, if followed, will extend the life of the camera, you can read those here: http://kievaholic.com/dosanddonts.html
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