Your most recent RF purchase

[Clay2]

Nikon classic S3 Rangefinder with 10.5cm f/2.5 Nikkor lens.

/Clay

 

[Nikon Collector]

Zeis Ikon Nettar 515/16

 

[Fixcinater]

Picked up a couple German-made but off-brand filters for a Summitar and a Walz hood for a Summarit, which is too dang short to do any good. It's as shallow as some 28mm hoods I've seen...

Just about ready to do a lens test between Jupiter-8, Elmar 3.5 uncoated, Summitar (coated but with separated front elements), Summarit with a bit of haze, Canon 50/1.2 LTM and Canon FDn 50/1.4 and 8-element Super Takumar 50/1.4, and maybe throw in some samples of a modern Sigma 50/1.4 to shake things up. Too many 50mms with low contrast, so some of them have to go.

 

[RattyMouse]

Fujifilm GF670W. Just bought it today!

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I invested 120 dollars to bolex including yvar 13mm f:1.9, cable release, take up spool and FOMA R regular 8mm 7.5 meters film. With plus 50 dollars processing at dr5 , I will have 4000 frames , damm contrast and uncompressed telecine for gallery.

 

[Dan Fromm]

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I invested 120 dollars to bolex including yvar 13mm f:1.9, cable release, take up spool and FOMA R regular 8mm 7.5 meters film. With plus 50 dollars processing at dr5 , I will have 4000 frames , damm contrast and uncompressed telecine for gallery.

That's nice. I didn't know that Bolexes had rangefinders. Does yours?

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Ah , I always thinked a rangefinder camera is what you see is from side viewfinder. You are correct , this is not a rangefinder but neither my Rollei 35S but everyone talks about it as an rangefinder.

 

[dxqcanada]

Ricoh Wide 2.4

Not much info on the web about this one.

 

[lindemanlax]

Hello! (Newbie)

Hi all -- I'm new to APUG and this forum. I've been shooting a couple of Nikon N80's I bought off Craigslist the past year or so and this past year bought a Yashica Electro 35 GSN. From there, I guess I got the bug. In addition to wanting to try medium format (I acquired a Mamiya 645 Pro), I also just bought a Canon Canonet 28 and a Minolta Hi-Matic E, neither of which have arrived yet.

I lucked out with my Yashica as it arrived in almost mint condition. New batteries and she was ready to shoot. Meter and all works as they should. It's a sweet shooter. Of course, I want to compare it to the Canon and Minolta. I know the Canon lens won't compete with the Minolta's 1.7 lens, but we'll see. I also want to find an excellent condition Konica Auto S2 after I run a few rolls through these new cameras -- assuming they work as well as their sellers said they did. My Nikon N80 with a 50mm 1.8 lens takes some amazing pictures, as does the Mamiya. But, these hassle-free (?) easy-carrying RF's are a blast to shoot with.

Looking forward to learning much from y'all.

Bruce

 

[dodphotography]

Leica M6 Classic with a Zeis Biogen 35 f2

Picked up at my local shop, I asked if they had some room and knocked a few hundred off it since I'm a "regular". Always a nice treat, especially buying high end used gear from a shop who is an authorized Leica dealer and all shooters themselves.

 

[gone]

I bought a Contax G1. Does that count? Have NO idea why either. They're small and noisy, w/ great glass, but the viewfinders are truly squinty and dark. It's just something to play with, and I can recoup my modest investment if it doesn't work out.

 

[blindpig]

Still new here and lookin' around.Am awaiting an e-bay purchase of a Kodak Retina IIa getting anxious),it's supposed to arrive by the 20th.
I had one over 50 years ago and traded it off for a Nikkor with interchangeable lenses.It was a good trade but have wished I had it back many times since then.Has that ever happened to you?LOL! A camera I've had longer is a Crown Graphic 4x5 press camera,think I got it in 1959 when my photographic career was starting. Have had it in storage for a while and checked it out the other day and found a whitish corrosion on the metal parts of the back(dang!) and after asking about it on the forum am cleaning it up now following some of the directions that were made.

 

[eunified61]

my son bought me a nice electro35 gtn for christmas

 

[Sirius Glass]

eunified61 Welcome to APUG

 

[Kyle M.]

Traded my Mamiya 645 for a near mint Koni Rapid Omega 200 with the Super Omegon 90mm F=3.5. I am very happy with it so far being my first rangefinder, and also find it intriguing that it carries the KE-58 USAF ID plate complete with contract # and NATO stock #. The best part of all? The film advance is perfect, no overlapping frames.

 

[leicarfcam]

Kodak Retina IIIc Type 021 Ausf. II

 

[ww12345]

Leica M2 button rewind converted to lever rewind freshly overhauled by Youxin Ye. Couldn't recommend the camera or the repair shop more.

 

[spoolman]

My latest RF purchase was a Kodak Bantam Rangefinder off of evil bay. Its kind of rough around the edges but the rangefinder works well and the Ektanon lens and flash supermatic shutter works a little sluggish. So I'll run a roll of 828 film through just to see how things are then when I get enough money together off to the repair shop for a CLA.

Doug

 

[dodphotography]

I picked up a Leica M6 after years of going back and forth on wether or not to make the purchase. It's been wonderful so far.

I found a pretty clean model and my local shop gave me a little % off the top to sweeten the deal, helps being a regular customer.

 

[John Earley]

 

[Rich K]

The last rangefinder I bought was a Voigtlander Vito B about 5 months ago.
More recently I've inherited my brothers (Andy K) camera collection which included a Zorki 4K, a Canon Canonet QL17 and another 2 Voigtlanders. A Vito CLR and a Bessa R3M.
i just need to decide now which ones to keep. In all including MF & SLR's he left 17 cameras & unfortunately I don't have the room for them all. I will however test each one & view the results before I make my mind up.

 

[John Earley]

Electro 35 GT, Canon P and a Nicca 3S in the past 6 weeks.

 

[JohnLikesPhotos]

Yashica Lynx-5000. I really like it, got it at goodwill, $14. Light meter still works (with a hearing aid battery). I might keep it, it's a lot of fun.

 

[elekm]

Recently, I picked up the Canonet QL17 (two of them), a Minolta Hi-Matic F, an Olympus 35 RC and Rollei XF 35.

I am very impressed with the build quality of the Canonet, but was disappointed by the massive amount of foam in it. Plus, the foam degraded, causing some deterioration of the black paint on the camera's interior.

The Minolta is a small camera with ZERO information in the viewfinder. I need to figure out a battery solution (it uses two fat cells that are no longer available).

The Olympus - have one already. They are lovely little cameras.

The Rollei, as much as I like the brand, is of dubious quality. This is my third and is the best of the XF 35s that I've owned. At least, the rangefinder on this one doesn't fall out of calibration when I put the camera on a table.

 

[Knjy]

Zeiss Contax 11a, followed swiftly by a Helios F1.8