{"id":674,"date":"2022-12-26T01:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T01:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/?post_type=product&#038;p=674"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:01:16","slug":"kiev-4a","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/product\/kiev-4a\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiev-4a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Kiev-4a Rangefinder, Contax Copy<\/p>\n<p>The Kiev 4a is a well known Soviet (Ukrainian to be correct) ContaxII copy. This was a long running production model &#8211; with some slight changes Arsenal factory in Kiev\u00a0 produced it from 1958 to 1980. Kiev-4a is very similar to its predecessor &#8211; Kiev IIa, it introduced some cosmetic changes.<br \/>\nThe lens was also modernized &#8211; the aperture dial was engraved on both sides of the lens, so the setting is visible regardless of the lens position.<br \/>\nThe aperture dial has stop-click settings. And the name was changed from Jupiter-8 to Jupiter-8M. All these changes made the\u00a0 proven Contax design more convenient to\u00a0 use. There were two major Kiev-4a variations &#8211; the original Kiev-4a (1958 &#8211; c.1974) and the Kiev-4a type 2 (c.1974 -1980). In the\u00a0 Kiev-4a type 2 the Arsenal engineers finally admitted that the top speed of the shutter was seldom as fast as 1\/1250, and a more realistic 1\/1000 was engraved as a top speed. The last model, Kiev-4m, was in production from 1980 to mid-80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiev-4a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6117416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[103],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-674","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-contax-copies-kiev","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6117416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedka.com\/fs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}