More info on Kiev: The old Salyut-C and Kiev-88 medium format camera system was not created or sold as a knockoff or "replica" of the Hasselblad system. The bo

More info on Kiev: The old Salyut-C and Kiev-88 medium format camera system was not created or sold as a knockoff or "replica" of the Hasselblad system. The body is admittedly a Soviet-era clone of the original Hasselblad 1000F, but with its own interchangeable body parts and lenses. Also, the lenses were primarily made in a former Zeiss factory in Jena, DDR (East Germany). Some "CZJ" (Carl Zeiss Jena) have decent optical quality, while others are not. An old Shutterbug article jokingly stated that the amount of lens dust and quality control was dependent on the Vodka content of the workers that day. Over the years, I owned 1 Salyut-C and a couple of Kiev-88 bodies and lenses, and I can confirm that build quality was variable in my experience. Some US-based camera shops had a side business performing Kiev-88 CLA (cleaning, lubrication & adjustment). This was for an Officially produced product with relatively few moving parts. So I cannot imagine the build quality for these counterfeit helicopters!