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• Kiev 4 - You Can't Go Wrong With It

  
  by kekoponte
  posted about 1 month ago
  8 comments and 6 votes

  If you want a rangefinder camera with lots of features like bulb mode, high speed shooting and accurate focusing, you need a Kiev.

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• Mamiya Press Universal - The Mac Daddy of the Medium Format Rangefinders!

  
  by mattydk
  posted 2 months ago
  6 comments and 9 votes

  The Mamiya Press Universal is big, weighty and boxy. But this beautiful camera is quite possibly the best medium format camera you can find!

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• Minolta HI-Matic E

  
  by drumfire
  posted 3 months ago
  13 comments and 8 votes

  The Minolta HI-Matic E is a mechanical rangefinder camera from 1971, with sharp light lens Rokkor 40/1.7 metallic body and automatic exposure which is perfect for traveling and reportage.

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• Zorki 4 - Not a Leica, Sucka!

  
  by nicksholga
  posted 3 months ago
  11 comments and 6 votes

  A Leica on a shoestring. A classy Russian gentleman. The perfect travel companion. Zorki is everything you've ever wanted and more.

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• Kiev 4 AM

  
  by laineyrocks
  posted 3 months ago
  5 comments and 2 votes

  The Kiev 4 AM was one of the last range finder cameras produced by the Kiev-Arsenal company. It was produced between 1979 and 1986. The 35mm range finder Kiev cameras were clones of the pre-war Contax II and Contax III cameras.

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• Fed 5B

  
  by cruzron
  posted 6 months ago
  9 comments and 12 votes

  Never mind the weight - it builds character and steadies your shots as well! The FED 5B is your perfect street shooting companion.

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• Lomography's Russian Scientist examines the Fed 5

  
  by pan_dre
  posted 6 months ago
  4 comments and 4 votes

  Lomography's very own analog scientist with another test run!

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• Dacora Dignette Super E-B - A Time Traveller

  
  by vicuna
  posted 7 months ago
  12 comments and 10 votes

  The Dacora Kamerawerk is another one of those stunning German camera producers, but this time not from Eastern Germany, but Western Germany, and to be more precise somewhere between Baden Württenberg and Bavaria! Let's discover one of the top camera models of this Camera factory: the Dacora Dignette Super E-B.

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• Braun Paxette - A Dignified Old Gentleman

  
  by d_i_hunter
  posted 7 months ago
  4 comments and 8 votes

  Still going strong, this camera from the 1950s works as well as it ever did!

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• Olympus 35-SP

  
  by kuasimudo
  posted 9 months ago
  5 comments and 4 votes

  Built between 1969 and 1976, the Olympus 35-SP was the most technologically advanced fixed-lens rangefinder, using a dual metering system: spot and centerweighted readings. Consider the age this was a huge step in the manual use of the camera. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Olympus35SP_fr_big.jpg

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• The Old Ma-ao Province

  
  by ethermoon
  posted 9 months ago

  Most of us cannot deny that we have a little soft side in our souls. We come and go to places we've never been before, get in touch with the lives of people and after a few weeks, you find yourself in their place again.

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• Canon Canonet QL17

  
  by altprocess
  posted 9 months ago
  4 comments and 4 votes

  Often described (as many other cameras are) as the "poor man's Leica", the Canon Canonet QL17 is a brilliant rangefinder at a fraction of the cost of most other rangefinders. It sports a crystal clear, tack sharp, f1.7 45mm lens that accurately captures colors as well as all the gradients between black and white. Produced in the mid-1960s and sturdily built, many excellent examples of this camera and later versions can be found on ebay for a steal. Due to age, the light seals need to replaced but this can be done by most camera enthusiasts with a sheet of black foamy, x-acto knife, and some adhesive. There are several website that offer instructions on how to replace the seals simply by plugging Canonet QL17 into a search engine.

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• Balda Baldessa 1b: I Think I Am In Love

  
  by mattcharnock
  posted 10 months ago
  16 comments and 8 votes

  When I was at school, and I was learning French, I never understood why the French language described inanimate objects as either masculine or feminine, similarly, in German. In the English language we just have things. It is a table. It is not feminine or masculine, transgender not even just going through a phase. It is simply a table nothing more. As I grew up and became more interested in my own language the thought of non gender specific objects disappointed me. I think for all the richness and complexity of the English language, for the times we were conquered and our language evolved; that we don’t feminise or masculinise objects is to our linguistic detriment. Of course the problem is that it is not the thing that is masculine or feminine, it is the prefix to the word itself in the construct of the language that denotes gender. So, in English a camera can never be referred to as male of female because the prefix “the” or “a” is with out gender and renders the object itself sexless. Or does it? My case and point to you is the Balda Baldessa

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• Yashica Electro 35GTN

  
  by iamwen
  posted about 1 year ago
  6 comments and 3 votes

  A black version of Yashica Electro 35 GSN with aperture priority. I guess everyone have heard of rangefinder camera. But I don’t think everyone know how it function exactly. Rangefinder cameras allow the photographer to measure the distance precisely and capture a photo which is sharp in focus. In the center of viewfinder, you will see two images, when object is in focus; the two image will overlapped and become one image as you turn the focus ring. So, let me introduce the Yashica Electro 35GTN range finder camera to all of you!

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• Kiev 4

  
  by vicuna
  posted about 1 year ago
  3 comments and 1 vote

  When I received my Kiev 4 camera, I was happy like a child to hold in my hands such a beautiful Russian camera. Well, Russian it is, even if it's well known that the Kiev cameras were copies of the German Contax cameras. Some like to say that these cameras are German Contax made in the USSR... But the Kiev 4 is much more than the "poor man's Contax" - it's a real stunning camera with the fantastic Jupiter 8 lens.

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