Kiev 60 Repair/Service Manual available

AlexeyD · Feb 28, 2012

Hi

I was using Kiev-6C and Kiev-60 for a while. Having repaired a few of them (as well as some P6 lenses) myself I know the frustration that comes when you try to figure out some internal Kiev 60 mechanical problem and not having enough information to do it.

I recently got hold of Arsenal's Kiev 60 repair/service manual - the original was very kindly scanned for me by Carsten Bobsin. I have the high resolution scans of all the pages and put together a DJVU file containing the whole book. The file is the 31MB I wanted to share it with the Kiev community in a hope it will be useful for all DIY enthusiasts that get ivolved in Kiev 6C/60 tweaking.

I have at this time shared it on my ISP webspace Dead Link Removed - feel free to download it.

Mustafa Umut Sarac · Feb 28, 2012

I used Kiev 88 and it was extremelly good camera , lenses 80 mm and 250 mm were perfect. I shot my lifes greatest pictures with it. Now I am banging my head to the wall , why I sold it. My eye is on 60s and sexiest coolest cameras I have ever seen and miracle , they are cheap.
Thank you uploading the repair manual , I downloaded it and save in my account.
Keep using it and post your images. I will search for 6C also.

Umut

dehk · Feb 28, 2012

Me too, thank you for the manual, even though I currently Do not have a Kiev 60 I am sure it will come in very handy one day. Already Got it downloaded.

AlexeyD · Feb 29, 2012

Thanks all

I'm glad it is useful to someone. All credits for doing all the hard work should go to Carsten Bobsin - he is the one who did all the hard work and endured all the scanning and rescanning (in case of some pages).

Claudio Castelli · Jan 17, 2017

Can somebody put it back online? The link is dead, and I only found the russian version on arax website...

AlexeyD · Jun 22, 2019

Claudio Castelli said:
Can somebody put it back online? The link is dead, and I only found the russian version on arax website...

My old site went down with internet provider. New link for Kiev 60 repaur manual here.

AgX · Jun 22, 2019

It is in djvu-format.

AlexeyD · Jun 22, 2019

AgX said:
It is in djvu-format.

It always was - the best format for scanned documents.

alanrockwood · Jun 22, 2019

AgX said:
It is in djvu-format.

There are some free software tools that allow it to be

AlexeyD said:
It always was - the best format for scanned documents.

There are software tools that can convert it to pdf. I used one called DjVu Converter. Then I used Acrobat to do an optical character recognition so it is searchable. Of course, it's still in Russian, so I can't read it. I may try to find a program to do an attempted translation next.

AlexeyD · Jun 22, 2019

alanrockwood said:
There are some free software tools that allow it to be

There are software tools that can convert it to pdf. I used one called DjVu Converter. Then I used Acrobat to do an optical character recognition so it is searchable. Of course, it's still in Russian, so I can't read it. I may try to find a program to do an attempted translation next.

I honestly don't care - there is nothing wrong with DJVU (a lot of scanned old books are in this format). I chose to use it for scanned Kiev 60 manual and gave it away for free - use it, convert it to something else if you don't like it.

removed account4 · Jun 22, 2019

thanks alexid
alan
i think at the kievaholics website they have a version of the manual in english and information from peoplewho work on them and fix them on the message board...

alanrockwood · Jun 22, 2019

AlexeyD said:
I honestly don't care - there is nothing wrong with DJVU (a lot of scanned old books are in this format). I chose to use it for scanned Kiev 60 manual and gave it away for free - use it, convert it to something else if you don't like it.

Alexy, we do appreciate it.

AlexeyD · Jun 23, 2019

jnantz said:
thanks alexid
i think at the kievaholics website they have a version of the manual in english and information from peoplewho work on them and fix them on the message board...

It's Alexey. There is no repair manual in english and nobody translated one so far AFAIK.

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