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From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
Retro photo of Kiev in action -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
The photo of my reference cameras. -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
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From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
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From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
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From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
Some 3D Coat screenshots of the model -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
The camera that never existed. More about Volga you can read here http://www.zeisshistorica.org/sample.html© D. Vasylyev
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From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
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From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
As explained in the pdf file I used the old Zeiss Ikon booklet to reproduce this scene. The difference between two pictures relies in changed design of some lens barrels. I also used Sonnar (Jupiter-11) instead of tele-Tessar and Orion-15 prototype lens instead of Orthometar. -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
This picture I used in the booklet to represent the complicated Sonnar and Biogon optical schemes of lenses. All these designs were introduced by ingenious German engineer Ludwig Bertele. Even today these lenses are able to astonish photographers by their performance. It's hard to imagine how Bertele was able to calculate these beautiful classic designs with just the aid of logarithmic tables (no computers in that time!). Fascinating! -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
The basic interchangeable lenses for Kiev available in 1952. You can notice that the mount of left tree lenses is different from the mount of Jupiter-3 (right lens). Yes, Kiev (Contax) has simultaneously two bayonet mounts that is also very interesting feature of the camera. -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
I like the interesting look of Kiev III with Jupiter-11 lens and the Universal Viewfinder (VU). Very star-warish I would say. -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
The intensity of incoming light is transformed into electrical current that affects the needle of galvanometer. In order to measure the correct exposure value the needle should be pointed on the black diamond sign. The obtained exposure value one can deduce then from the calculator on the rewind knob (upper left corner). -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
The incoming light is absorbed by the photosensitive selenium cell. To reduce the stray light the plastic cell cover has such an interesting stripped form. -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
It is shown how to open the protecting door of the light-meter. Since Kievs (Contaxes) have selenium light-meter its sensitivity reduces with time if the selenium cell is not covered from the light rays when not in use. -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
This picture starts the series of Kiev III shots. I used for reference Kiev III of 1952. That was the official release year of Kiev III and some light-meters still are German like this one. The film sensitivity on the knob is still given in DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung-German) and not GOST (gosudarstvennyy standart -Russian ) as on the more common cameras. The electrical scheme I adopted from the book V. M. Fridman, Photography (1957). -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
The advance feature of Contaxes (Kievs), that in 1936 was also the advantage for successful marketing, is the build-in self-timer. For us it's natural that camera has self-timer but not for the professional photographs in 1930s. Here you can see the stroboscopic picture of the released self-timer.© D. Vasylyev
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From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
The rangefinder is coupled to the bayonet mount via complex system of gears. Rotating the upper wheel by your finger allows you to rotate the bayonet with mounted lens as well as small edge-like lens in the rangefinder (see previous picture). The lens is shown to be focused on nearest distance possible - 0.9 m. -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
Kievs (Contaxes) have very complicated but precise rangefinder. It is coupled to the rotating bayonet mount and allows to focus precisely. The rangefinder base (distance between two windows) is 90mm that is long enough to focus with the tele-objective Jupiter-11 (Sonnar) 135/4. I tried here to reproduce the whole complexity of the rangefinder. -
From the album: Kiev: The legend in Your Hands
The authentic Kiev of 1951 was used for the reference as well as the corresponding normal lens. The logo in the upper right corner is the logotype of 1947 Kievs made from the original Contax details. Kievs'47 are very scarce and expensive cameras nowadays.© D. Vasylyev
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Dear Taros, unfortunately I didn't manage to upload the screenshots to my gallery. I tried all steps here http://3d-coat.com/gallery/my-gallery/%C2'> on the step3 nothing happens. And the gallery does not attach to my account Here I attached the old screenshot of purely detailed body. But I don't think that screenshots will tell you a lot. I split my model into many groups and each of the group I created in separate 3b file and then exported. The final composition I edited in 3ds Max and rendered there with some basic paths. Now I think that I needed to reduce the saturation a little bit. Textures I did in 3D Coat with the use of prepared masks but since I am novice I did not know how to use and export the normal maps. So the texture of engravings was duplicated by hand during the retopology. Slightly ugly, i know.
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Oh, thank you! This encourage me for further work. Actually, this is my first 3D graphics. Merely worked early with vector graphics. Have to learn a lot of stuff. Very challenging and interesting.
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Hello everybody, Share with you my first work in 3D-Coat. Coat is a really fantastic program and is a great 3D tool! My aim was to create the advertisement booklet of some retro product. The booklet you can view going by the following link (more graphics in high resolution): https://yadi.sk/i/JgBB0hq0WybMj Some my explanations and comments you can find here: https://yadi.sk/i/xSXYHurUX28XL With best regards, altix
