The Kiev 88 is a Ukrainian Medium format SLR, It’s development started with the Salyut which went into mass production in 1957 at the Arsenal factory in Kiev. It has interchangeable Viewfinders, including a top down viewfinder, and metered and unmetered pentaprism viewfinders (the viewfinder shown is the TTL spot meter pentaprism), and interchangeable backs, allowing you to swap film halfway through a roll, using either 120 roll film, with 6×6 or 6×4.5 size exposures, or polaroid instant film.

The example in the picture is an upgraded version of the Arsenal factory model, produced by Arax who are also based in the Ukraine.

a long exposure of a trees branches, the only source of light for the photo was the moon. Taken on an Arax-88-cm-mlu (A modified Kiev 88) medium format camera

a long exposure of a trees branches, the only source of light for the photo was the moon. Taken on an Arax-88-cm-mlu (A modified Kiev 88) medium format camera

a long exposure of a trees branches, the only source of light for the photo was the moon. Taken on an Arax-88-cm-mlu (A modified Kiev 88) medium format camera

a long exposure of a trees branches. Taken on an Arax-88-cm-mlu (A modified Kiev 88) medium format camera

a long exposure of a trees branches, the only source of light for the photo was the moon. Taken on an Arax-88-cm-mlu (A modified Kiev 88) medium format camera

a long exposure of a trees branches, the only source of light for the photo was the moon. Taken on an Arax-88-cm-mlu (A modified Kiev 88) medium format camera