What a beauty.
A nice Minolta rangefinder from 1977:
Focus is easy, the meter works, the shutter and aperture works in manual and shutter priority mode, the self-timer works, and it's in great shape cosmetically.
Just this screw-mount Olympus
I think that the consensus is that it was designed by a third party and built by Olympus, and that the lenses were made by Olympus. I don't know if that third party was Yashica, or if it was Minolta, which are the usual suspects.This is the Olympus i would love to have. Although nobody seems to know who really designed it, and if the lenses were actually made by Olympus.
I had one for a short time and it was a very good camera, but in M42 mount I always prefer the Pentax Spotmatic. Mine went the way of eBay several years back and I really don't miss it. To me it always had a slight resemblance to the Minolta SRT line of cameras.I think that the consensus is that it was designed by a third party and built by Olympus, and that the lenses were made by Olympus. I don't know if that third party was Yashica, or if it was Minolta, which are the usual suspects.
If it is indeed a Minolta design, then it would have the distinction of being the only M42 mount camera from both Minolta and Olympus.I had one for a short time and it was a very good camera, but in M42 mount I always prefer the Pentax Spotmatic. Mine went the way of eBay several years back and I really don't miss it. To me it always had a slight resemblance to the Minolta SRT line of cameras.
Excellent photos and essays, thank you for sharing. I have a pair of 3.5f Rolleiflexes, one Xenotar, and one Planar. Both lenses are equally fine, and I doubt that anyone could make any distinction between photos made with either. Maybe a bench test would show some difference, but even that could be attributable to sample difference.Hi Everyone, I bought another Rolleiflex 3.5E with Xenotar lens to replace a Rollei that I should have never sold 6 or 7 years ago (you know how it goes with regretting dumb decisions). But this one appears to have an exceptional lens. I took some photographs at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland that, I thought, worked well with black and white: http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-heart-of-evil-birkenau.html
and here: http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-heart-of-darkness-auschwitz.html.
I also visited the Jewish cemetery in Łódź, which survived World War II largely undamaged: http://worldofdecay.blogspot.com/2016/11/tragic-memories-jewish-cemetery-of-odz.html
A chrome Topcon Super D. It came with a Beseler Topcon 6.5X finder and a 28/2.8 Carenar EET.
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