Kiev-19M Instructions for Use
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Kiev-19M
Instructions for Use.
The camera you have bought may slightly differ in appearance from the pictures presented in this
booklet, since in manufacture the appearance and performance of the cameras are continuously
improved.
1. General directions
1.1. Purpose of Camera and
its
Features
The КИЕВ-19М (KIEV-19M) camera is a miniature reflex camera of system TTL with semiautomatic
setting of exposure. It is intended for amateur photographing.
The camera is designed for using the 35 mm photographic film in the standard magazines (36
pictures sizing 24×36 mm in loading of 1.65 m of film).
The KIEV-19M camera is released with the MC HELIOS-81H lens (diaphragm setting range 16,
focusing distance 50 mm, relative aperture 1:2). The lens is provided with special multilayer anti-
reflection coating of which the marking (MC) is indicative. The multilayer anti-reflection coating
improves the quality of an image and increases its contrast grade on account of increasing the integral
transparency and decreasing the light dispersion by the lens.
The lens joint is of a bayonet type, the thread for a light filter is M52×0.75.
The design of the camera envisages the use of the change lenses which are specially released for the
KIEV-19 and KIEV-20 cameras The list of change lenses is given in Table 1.
T a b l e 1
Description
Relative
aperture
Focal
lenght, mm
Angle of
field of
vision, ...°
MC MIR-20H
1 : 3,5
0
20
94
,0
MC MIR-24H
1 : 2
,0
0
35
63
,0
MC CALEYNAR-5H
1 : 2,8
100
24,5
TELEAR H
1 : 3,5
200
12
,0
MC GRANIT-11H
1 : 4,5
80–200
30–12
The metal curtain shutter ensures the speeds in the range from 1/500 to 1/2 s and “B”.
The curtain travel occurs along the short side of the picture from bottom to top.
The viewfinder is of a reflecting brilliant type.
The Fresnel lens and the condenser lens in the finder ensure the increasing brightness of an image
and thus the opportunity of shooting under conditions of weak lighting.
The field of vision of the finder occupies 93% of picture area.
