Kiev 88 TTL

Complete Kiev88 TTL kit with: TTL prism finder, 2 film magazines, standard lens Volna 3, and accessories, plus two more lenses: Mir 38B and Kaleinar 3B, the whole bought for 10000f on april 14th, 1992.

My young brother (Christophe!) married on September 5, 1992, and insisted for me to take the photos. As you can see, I prepared it sufficiently in advance by buying the necessary “to make good job” equipment in April. The shutter broke down from the beginning, I sent the body to be repaired, it took almost one year for the importer to finally send me a new one!
The wedding photos were made with an old Hasselblad 1000 body which shutter was also broken down (broken curtain spring) (as you can see, Kiev 88 is a true copy of Hasselblad 1000). I spent the days before the ceremony trying to arrange this rotten thing, to finally only have one shutter speed working, 1/30s (flash synchro) you can imagine, considering the sun we had that day, that I had no problem with depth of field, using 22 or 32 aperture! The Blad's original 80mm lens was dead, I used my Kiev lenses. Mounting is the same one, but turned by 180°; I just had to unscrew the Blad's bayonet and to screw it back after a half-turn to be able to use my lenses.
In brief, as I never had since the opportunity to make photos with medium format, this camera is new (but it works perfectly!). The shutter speeds begin to the 1/2 second, whereas the first camera also had the 1 second; it seems that the shutter went blocked while using this speed.

Pistol-grip handle bought for 375f july 27th, 1994.