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Re: Arsenal

Posted by Doc B. on July 20, 2005 at 20:32:57:
Actually I hear all sorts of different stories about Russian quality control, from "The inspectors came and threw out the entire production of May 1983" to "the shutter of the Kiev 4 from the 50's is actually much more reliable and more quiet than the Contax II". Certainly we Americans were no better in many industries - consider that everyone in the midwest in the 60's knew that you should never buy an American car that came off the assembly line on Monday.
I plan to take all of this as gossip until I see for myself. I have a 1969 vintage Kiev 4A and 1981 vintage Helios 103 on the way from Russia. I'm hoping it will be an interesting restoration project, and a nice shooter when I'm done with it.