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Kiev 10

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The Kiev Automat aka Kiev-10 Automat (Cyrillic inscription: Автомат or Киев-10 автомат) was manufactured in the Arsenal factory, possibly from 1965 to 1968 as Kiev Automat and from 1969 to 1974 as Kiev-10 Automat, and is perhaps one of the strangest and most innovative cameras to come from the Soviet Union. It is a large, heavy 35mm SLR with a light meter, the first Soviet automatic exposure system, the focusing screen having microcrystals for focusing (which did not appear on Zenits until the '

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