stratcat
Well-known
Hello everyone,
I'm thinking about buying one of the R3M anniversary kits, but I wanted to ask first in the forum about the collective experience with this camera. Is it a good buy or should I instead go for the regular production R3M?
Thanks in advance.
cheers!
I'm thinking about buying one of the R3M anniversary kits, but I wanted to ask first in the forum about the collective experience with this camera. Is it a good buy or should I instead go for the regular production R3M?
Thanks in advance.
cheers!
kshapero
South Florida Man
The anniversary kit includes the excellent Heliar 50/2 lens, but the cameras themselves perform exactly the same.
sojournerphoto
Veteran
I nearly bought one recently, just for the romance and the lens. Decided not to in the end, but the Rxm cameras are nice - I had an R2m and an R4m in the past and only sold them because I picked up a second Ikon. (I do confess that the lure of a mechanical camera has since caught me however...)
Mike
Mike
stratcat
Well-known
Thanks for your replies. I think I will buy the Anniversary set.
Anyone else? Any actual owners of the Anniversary R3M that might want to comment on their camera? Thanks again.
Anyone else? Any actual owners of the Anniversary R3M that might want to comment on their camera? Thanks again.
OSFlanker
Member
I bought a silver R3M 250 Jahre set recently. Unfortunately I cannot share any user experience yet as I have been using the Zeiss Ikon (bought used) and keeping the brand new R3M in the box!
Tom A
RFF Sponsor
I have an early R3M 250 edition. used heavily as it has a/ The Heliar 50f2 (very good) and b/ frames for the 40 Nokton's and c/ most important to me free standing 75mm frame lines. I use it with my Summicron 75, Heliar 75f1.8 and f2.5. Much better than the M6/MP' s cluttered 50/75. Also works well with the 50mm focal length.
No issues with the camera - has worked perfectly since day 1.
No issues with the camera - has worked perfectly since day 1.
alfredian
Well-known
Life-size viewing
Life-size viewing
Big Plus: life-size (1:1.0 ratio) viewing. Next big plus: separate frames for the 75 mm = uncluttered viewfinder.
I own a boxed-set Jahre (chrome) + the collapsible 50/2 Heliar. After that sat on the shelf for awhile I got an identical body from KEH - used it, loved it, but my M4/MP led to declining use, so I sold it to an RFFer last Spring.
Main temptation calling its siren song from the "investment" boxed set is the 50/2 Heliar - I hear it's a fantastic lens and I love my collapsible Elmar 50/2.8 - and my collapsible 90/4 Elmars.
The Bessa RxM bocies are great - I'll keep my R4m forever, but my R3m was double-duplicated I also use Nikon S2/S3 which have 1:1 "see-through" finders. Oh, one other plus, but the Rxm bodies seem a bit more compact than M4/MP.
Hope this helps.
Life-size viewing
Big Plus: life-size (1:1.0 ratio) viewing. Next big plus: separate frames for the 75 mm = uncluttered viewfinder.
I own a boxed-set Jahre (chrome) + the collapsible 50/2 Heliar. After that sat on the shelf for awhile I got an identical body from KEH - used it, loved it, but my M4/MP led to declining use, so I sold it to an RFFer last Spring.
Main temptation calling its siren song from the "investment" boxed set is the 50/2 Heliar - I hear it's a fantastic lens and I love my collapsible Elmar 50/2.8 - and my collapsible 90/4 Elmars.
The Bessa RxM bocies are great - I'll keep my R4m forever, but my R3m was double-duplicated I also use Nikon S2/S3 which have 1:1 "see-through" finders. Oh, one other plus, but the Rxm bodies seem a bit more compact than M4/MP.
Hope this helps.
stratcat
Well-known
Thanks again for your comments. I guess I'll go for it!