Show Your Scale Focus Beauties!

[Lawrence Sheperd]

😀 After having scanned fourteen pages in the "Scale Focus 35s" sub-forum, I was dismayed to not find a single "show me yours and I'll show you mine" topic. So, I've decided to take one for the team and start my own!

Besides, why should the high-end cameras have all the fun?! 😉

Here's a recent $.99 cent thrift store find. The Minolta Hi-matic G2 of 1984 (or thereabouts) was one of the last incarnations of the fantastic Hi-matic series. While being (almost) totally auto-exposure, it still possesses a rather sharp 38/2.8 lens, albeit in a plastic housing, with bright-line finder. Some have said that the first series of G2s had metal top and bottom plates as in the G; my example boasts solid plastic instead.

Hand-held (braced) 1 sec @ f11, Olympus E1

 

[FrankS]

Plastic: the material of the future!

 

[Lawrence Sheperd]

Plastic: the material of the future!

Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.

The Graduate 1967

 

[jenquest]

Very nice indeed. My humble addition - Olympus Trip...

 

[Lawrence Sheperd]

A true classic! I especially like the first photo, jenquest.

I wish I had the original lens cap for my '68 Trip, as your example does, but I've found that a cap from a Sony CD Mavica works perfectly!

 

[Mablo]

At the moment my only scale focus is the Oly Trip, similar to the one beautifully photographed above. I do have the original lens cap but I was foolish enough to sell the original lens hood with one of my RC 35's (fits perfectly). Trip hoods are almost impossible to find these days.

 

[oftheherd]

Not to brag, but ...

A Welta Weltii, a Welta Weltix, and a 6x9 Zeiss Ikon

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/medium/Welta_Three_Web.jpg


And Also, a pair of Welta Weltinis, in different models. I know they aren't scale focus, but they are so nice, and don't seem to get mentioned too often. I just couldn't help myself. 'sob'

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/medium/TwoWeltinis.jpg

I think there were at least 3 models of the Weltini, but I'm not sure, I have four. Both types of Welti are really nice picture takers.

 

[petronius]

Braun Paxette Electromatic III:

 

[petronius]

Chinon Bellami and its clone, the Revue 35CC:

 

[petronius]

Bencini Comet 135NK:

 

[petronius]

Agfa Optima Parat, sexy!

 

[Photo_Smith]

I used this today:

Ensign Selfix

 

[FrozenInTime]

Back where it all started ... well a copy.

I should use it more often.

 

[ruby.monkey]

Here you go:


EPM18748 by ruby.monkey, on Flickr

MDa with 25mm f/4 Snapshot-Skopar and MD-2 with 12mm f/5.6 Ultra-Wide Heliar. I've enjoyed an Olympus Trip 35, large-finder Voigtlander Vito B and Perkeo II, Leidolf Lordox 24x36, and CZJ Werra I, in the past, and they've all been lovely cameras; but the Leicas are the only ones I've kept.

 

[petronius]

 

[Greyscale]

Kodak Signet 50

Kodak Signet 50 by Greyscale3, on Flickr

Fujica Auto 5

Fujica Auto-5 by Greyscale3, on Flickr

 

[ajramirez]

1940 Argus A2F. Still works.


1940 Argus A2F by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

Cheers,

Antonio

 

[Classique]

Chinon Bellami Special ED

 

[farlymac]

Here's a few

Here's a few


Self Portrait 10-30-12 by br1078phot, on Flickr


Ansco Memar by br1078phot, on Flickr


Univex Mercury II Accessories by br1078phot, on Flickr


Voigtlander Vito B With Vivitar CdS Meter by br1078phot, on Flickr


Kodak Retinette 1A Type 044 Front by br1078phot, on Flickr


Kodak Pony 135 Model C by br1078phot, on Flickr


Kalimar A Repaired by br1078phot, on Flickr

And I've shot photos with every one except the Zeiss (it's still waiting for me to repair it).

PF

 

[David Hughes]

Here's one of them:

Regards, David