The appearance of this camera in 1965 was a real event: the Kiev-10 was a competitor to the latest Japanese and German photographic equipment. In fact, it was the first camera in the world to implement a type of exposure automation, which is now called ‘exposure priority’. Prior to that, other cameras were able to do automatic aperture selection at a set shutter speed, but they were all scaled orrangefinder ones. On the contrary, ‘Kiev-10’ was a full-fledged ‘SLR’ with interchangeable lenses!
Half of the technical solutions used in the chamber were implemented in the USSR for the first time as well as in the world at all. Until that moment, Soviet photographers could not imagine that the exposure meter’s needle could move along the aperture scale directly in the viewfinder, pointing to the value selected by the automatic machine!