Just to revive things... The camera is a Russian Fed-2, one of the earlier variants, manufactured about 1957, the the 50/f3.5 collapsible lens, while the meter is a Weston Master III of broadly similar age. The Fed-2 is sometimes described as a Leica copy, but is arguably a better design than the screw-mount Leica cameras of the same period. The Russians did copy the Leica, and the Kiev was a post-war copy of the Contax. In the fifties, they started improving things. The screw thread Leica design is a bastard to load film. You need to cut a longer leader, and it's a slow job, since only the baseplate of the camera opens and you have to thread the film in. It also has the rangefinder and the viewfinder with seperate eyepieces. The Fed-2 has a Contax-style combined rangefinder/viewfinder, and the base/back of the camera remove to load film; still a bit slow, but much easier than the Leica design. Anyhow, this morning a parcel arrived from Russia, and I have a different lens I can use, coming from the Contax/Zeiss line of development which the Russians cheerfully moveed over to the Fed and Zorki Leica-style cameras. A Jupiter-3, which is a 50mm/f1.5, and I am itching to get some prints shot and processed. OK, so the extra aperture isn't going to make any difference to the viewfinder image. This isn't an SLR. And the coupling between lens and rangefinder is rather important at f1.5 -- will things be in focus or not? But the extra aperture makes a big difference to the usable range of light levels, for shooting hand-held indoors without flash. Now, should I get a wide-angle or a telephoto next?