Plaubel-Makina W67- Tips and advises

Hi
I'm interested to get a Plaubel-Makina W67. I don't know the brand. I like street, landscape and cityscape photography and travel. Do you have experience with it? I need advise and tips to use it. Why it is so expensive? What's about the lens?

Regards

Normand

I own both Plaubels.The 67W has a 55-4.5 Nikkor. The metering and rangefinder are both very good as is the lense. It is a great camera for the uses you indicate and is reasonably rugged. I stopped using it when I got the Mamiya 7, which is a really great camera also. The catalog says the 67W weighs 1200 grams and I believe you can use 220 film also. They are expensive because there are not a lot of them and finding a nice one isn't easy. It is an easy camera to use just match shutter speed and F stop to the meter.

I have one and I'm smitten with it. If you want a folding rangefinder experience with a great lens, MF negative and convenient meter the pickings are pretty slim. Mamiya, Fuji and Plaubel all have excellent cameras to choose from and I'm sure there are a few others too. You don't have to spend Makina money to get the picture you want of course, but they are fun to use.

I don't know what it is about the lens on the wide, but I like it for walking city streets. And after the pic is taken the camera folds slimmer than a LeicaM3.

I like my W67 a lot for landscapes when hiking, which I haven't done in a while. It's a little fiddly to focus with the same hand as the shutter button (right hand) using the knob so it's not always fast but the build is solid and it folds oh-so-compact. It doesn't have any provision to take 220 film (unlike the Plaubel 670 which I also use) and the spot meter is pretty small in the center so you'll want to meter a couple spots in the scene to get a good reading before shooting, especially if you shoot slides.

I like the lens rendering a bit more than the Mamiya 7ii + 65mm when I had that.