Film Fridays: Loving and hating the Kiev 60 TTL - a quirky Soviet medium format knockoff

Photos: Michael Elliott / 35mmc In this week's Film Friday, photographer Michael Elliot describes his love/hate relationship with the mechanically quirky Kiev 60 TTL, a Soviet-era medium format evolution/knockoff of the East German Pentacon Six. Manufactured in Ukraine from 1984 to 1999, it shoots 6x6cm images and features swappable viewfinders, an unpredictable film advance mechanism, a mirror box prone to heavy flare and one of the loudest SLR mirrors known to humankind. This clunker of an SLR...