The Kiev 30 is a camera that inspires day dreams of cloak and dagger spy games. It belongs to the subminiature class of cameras, which are specifically designed to be as small as possible. In reality, if they were ever used for international espionage they had to be small to stay discreet. Youre not going to get away with breaking into an office, photographing secret documents and escaping a gun fight with a medium or large format camera.

The Kiev 30 is a subminiature camera, in the shape of candy bar. It uses 16mm unperforated film, which is loaded into a film cartridge, specific for this camera. The frame size is 13x17mm. The camera shoots when it is pulled open, aligning the lens with the window. A red dot is visible covering the lens, indicating it is ready to shoot. Closing the camera advances the film to the next frame. The frame counter is on the bottom.

The lens is an Industar-M 23mm f/3.5. Focus is controlled by a wheel on top of the camera when it is opened. Its closest focus distance is 50cm. The focus wheel has markings of 0.5, 1, 2 metres and infinity.

Aperture and shutter speeds are selected on the side of the camera. Aperture values start at f/3.5 wide open, down to f/11. Three shutter speeds are available, 1/30th, 1/60thand 1/200th. Both of these can be pre-selected before opening it up. The shutter release button is on top of the camera, next of the focus wheel. As the camera only shoots open, it is really only available when opened.

On the back of the camera is the exposure calculator, which is a combination of wheels which need lining up with the film speed, aperture and weather conditions. When lined up, you can see the proposed shutter speed which you have to manually set.

The viewfinder is at the back and as per the lens, can only be used when the camera is pulled open. This is because it needs to line up with the window at the front. There is also a wrist strap lug on the side of the camera.

To get inside the camera to load film, you literally pull it apart. Inside it, you lift the top and you can access the film cartridge. The cartridge is two joined parts. One which contains the take up spool. Once the film is loaded, the frame counter is reset manually.

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