Fixed lens rangefinders with 35mm lens?

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archeophoto

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Hi everybody,

are there any vintage rangefinder cameras with a 35mm lens? I have a Olympus wide but it's a scale focus.
I also heard that Mamiya made a wide model with a 35mm and rangefinder.

Any others?
 
The Welmy Wide, Ricoh Wide, Minolta Auto-Wide. The Lord 5D has a 40mm lens (F1.9!).

Edit: Welmy is scale focus. I'm pretty sure the others have rangefinders though.
 
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Yashica CC and CCN with 35mm f/1.8 lens. Yashica GX with 40mm f/1.7. I have several GX's. These are all great cameras.

Konica Hexar AF has a 35mm f/2 AF lens.
 
The Hexar is uatofocus so it's not technically a rangefinder; but it's built like one and the VF has parallax corrected framelines which demonstrate (by image separation/unification) the focusing process -- even while not allowing you actually to control it. So in my mind it counts. If you like AF that is.
 
Minox 35 is strictly speaking a viewfinder, not rangefinder. But a superb camera with a great 35mm 2.8 lens, nonetheless.
 
The Yashica CC or CCN are probably the best cameras in this category, and they have the fastest lens (f/1.8). The CC/CCN are pretty much the same camera, the CCN being a newer version. They are not as small as the Rollei or Minox, but are smaller than all the other cameras mentioned here, with the exception of the XA. The CC/CCN cameras are somewhat hard to find, but I almost always have one or more available for sale.
 
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