Yashica Electro 35 GT

A sturdy and well conceived leaf shuttered rangefinder with a very quick f1.7 lens. The "G" presumedly stand for Gold Mechanica which mention to the gold plated electric contact points. The GT and GTN was very dark but Yashica also made satin chrome versions, the GS and GSN. The GT and GTN were equal too each other with the distinction that the GTN had a hot footwear.
 
 Conspicuously a quality camera with a very pointed 45mm Color Yashinon lens it likely won't be my first alternative in this class, the Yashica is considerably larger than my Canonet QL17 III(or the Minolta Hi-Matics), in detail the body is the identical size as a little SLR like a Pentax Spotmatic or k1000. While I personally favour aperture priority to shutter speed main concern, the Yashica Electro 35 GT is aperture priority ONLY, whereas the Canonet QL17 III is shutter speed priority AND manual. It furthermore sports no less than three annoying colored lights on the peak plate(Red and amber exposure signs and a green electric electric battery check light).

whereas they were manufactured in both Japan and Hong Kong, this one was made in Japan. The accessory wide/tele lens kit and auxiliary viewfinder boasted in the base photograph was made in Hong Kong. It's an iconic and solid rangefinder, with an above average 45mm/f1.7 lens that can be selected up for reasonable(but not bargain) charges on online auctions by anyone involved in film taking photos. Click on an likeness to outlook bigger.

Leitz Visoflex II accessories

The Leitz Visoflex II was a reflex housing accesory for Leica camera bodies introduced by Leitz Wetzlar in the 1960s. The Visoflex II fitted on Leica cameras like an interchangeable lens and was available with either a bayonet or screw climb on. This accesory could alter a rangefinder camera into a SLR camera. It comprised of the Visoflex body encompassing a reflex reflector, an eye-level pentaprism magnifier (viewfinder), and a easy magnifier. The person taking photos first had to screw the reflex lodgings onto the camera body and then skid either of the examining magnifier up on the housing.

Fujifilm X20 Hands-On Preview

Fuji has made a new version of the much-beloved (by me and numerous others) X10 camera.
It appears to be a really good revise, there is now full information even in the value optical viewfinder (this is really rare, nearly unique), and according to Fuji there are important improvements to both procedure (AF etc) hasten and image value (the sensor is really good and big contrasted to most compacts). And the X10 did not suck at either. (We'll glimpse shortly if tests will support these claims.)
Oh, and you now can get it in a shiny version, I are inclined to like those a allotment.

I won't lie, I have the hots for this camera. It is a lot of camera in a small, attractive, and reasonably-priced bundle.
Not the least, attractive. If you like the look and feel of classic film cameras, it's hard to find certain thing which is as pleasant as this, and absolutely not for only six hunnert bucks.

I'd say the major contention against this camera is the astonishing Sony RX100, which has similar value but is really pocket-sized (despite an even larger sensor). Though that camera, for the identical reason, is more fiddly, and does not have the same beauty and real-camera seem.

The lens is actually good, and oddly very quick for a zoom. And it has a manual twist-zoom function on the lens itself, much better than the tiny lever on most compact cameras (including the RX100).

lecia M7 Rangefinder Camera review

A rangefinder camera is a photographic camera equipped with a coincident-viewing distance-determination apparatus, called rangefinder, which permits the photographer to assess the subject expanse and take images that are in pointed focus. The majority of rangefinder cameras show two images of the same subject, one of which moves when a calibrated wheel is turned. When the two images coincide and fuse into one, the expanse can be read off the wheel. This is called connected rangefinder. Such rangefinders have been used in 35mm cameras, such as those made by Leica, Canon, Nikon, and others for numerous years, and also in larger-format cameras such as medium format bending cameras or rigid cameras like the Mamiya 7, and even some early Polaroid cameras.

Non-coupled rangefinder cameras brandish the focusing distance and require the person taking photos to move the worth to the lens focus ring; cameras without built-in rangefinders could have an external rangefinder fitted into the accessory footwear. previous cameras of this type had separate viewfinder and rangefinder windows; subsequent the rangefinder was incorporated into the viewfinder. More up to date concepts have rangefinders coupled to the focusing means, so that the lens is focused rightly when the rangefinder images