gavinlg
Veteran
NIkon f3 probably...
runners up: mju II, mamiya 7ii, pentax 67
runners up: mju II, mamiya 7ii, pentax 67
Its okay ...try M7 my friend.
Had one. Not even close to the Hexar AF.
..especially if you factor in the now ludicrous price of 35mm M-mount lenses, second hand... to the extent that the Hexar 35mm lens costs twice as much if it doesn't have a camera attached!
M3. And Nikon F6.
I like Leica M cameras, but they require regular servicing to keep them on top shape, and more than once I have managed to bump an M hard enough to knock the rangefinder out of adjustment.
Horses for courses so for RF it has to be a Leica M6 and for manual focus SLR OM-1 or F2 and for AF I guess the F6 but there is some lush lenses for Konicas, Fujis and Contax cameras. There are so many wonderful manual focus cameras just begging to be used and enjoyed, a lot are such bargains now it seems a shame to just have one or two.
Not really -- and I've been using 'em almost 40 years, on three continents, travelling by motorcycle, Land Rover, Jeep, train, bus, air, foot...so I have some idea of what I'm talking about. Never banged a rangefinder out of alignment, either. And no, they don't get babied, any more than my Nikon Fs do. Or my Gandolfis or Linhofs...
To reply to the OP, there is no such thing as a single best camera: only the best camera for a given application and for a given photographer.
Cheers,
R.
I'd be tempted to say the F100 (though I guess the F6 is about the same size/weight as a F100 but improved?) for pure versatility and generally just working. $250 from KEH is a crazy deal for such a good camera.