You can get a Canon Canonet QL17 for $50-125. Or a Minolta HiMatic 7. Or any one of a number of other fixed lens rangefinder cameras in this price bracket from Olympus, Konica, Ricoh, Petri, Yashica etc. The key is to be sure that you get one which actually has a coupled rangefinder rather than a simple zone/scale focusing lens if you want to experiment with rangefinder photography.
One of my favorites is the Kodak Retina II: a lovely old 35mm film folder from the 1950s/early 1960s. The ubiquitous Argus C3 is also in this class. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am thinking I should repeat my experience with the rangefinder (film) > camera. Is there anyone willing to enable or even lend me(*) a camera with > most basic lens, say 50/2.8 or 35/2.8, so that I could try this thing. > Ideally, I'd like to avoid Russian Leica clones because I know from the > first hand experience that they are very variable in their reliability. > > Any hints, pointers, suggestions will be most welcome. > > Thanks in advance. > > Boris > > (*) Of course I will pay you, if you lend me your rangefinder camera. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
