On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:43 -0400, "Bill Owens" <wmbow...@gmail.com> wrote: > My constant compainion back in the mid 1960's was a Yashica Lynx 14 > with a 1.4 lens. Great little rangefinder
I have one of those, but I'm not sure that 'little' is the correct adjective. :-)> Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > Bill > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 9/16/2010 9:52 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > > > Indeed, Canonet looks pretty attractive and eekbay is full of them. > > > > Let the hunt commence. > > > > Boris > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
