Arsenal Kiev-S Space Camera

Unique outfit used for the 'Soyuz' space Programme including a perfect camera with reflex finder with matching film magazine no.6900005, a spare magazine no.7100007, Vega-12-C 4/90mm no.68011, Tair-35 5.6/300mm no.70014 (with special front and rear cap) - The SLR cameras Kiev-SKD + Kiev-S for perforated 70-mm-film in detachable special film magazine for negative format 50x50mm, magazine capacity 100 images (or 180 images when using a special thin-base film). Polished glass pressure plate in front of the film. Foldable pointing device above the reflex finder. Focal plane shutter ½ - 1/1000 and B. The camera documents the technical data of each image on the film, using four small windows adjacent to the corners of the image window: 1. Time (clock) and colour filter in use (in a round window of 5mm in diameter) 2. f-number 3. exposure time 4. focal length of the lens in use (2. to 4. appear in three square little windows 5x5mm; the analogue watch, f-number and exposure time are keyed-in automatically, while the used type of lens and the filter type have to be set manually by turning small wheels on the body). This data system is achieved by four small objectives behind the windows that focus on electrically lit scales (f-stop, exposure time etc.) and a small battery-driven electric analogue watch (in the size of a wristwatch, with black dial and white hands) that sits in the camera bottom. The Kiev-S is a historically important camera, used in spaceship Soyuz. It was used by the USSR to take 35 outstanding colour photographs of the Moon and the earth rising above the Moon on August 11th, 1969, on a circumlunar flight. The spaceship returned to the earth safely on August 14th,1969 - Only about 30 cameras of both Kiev-SKD and Kiev-S were produced from 1967-1971.