List of All-Manual RFs?

[Filson Back]

Sorry if this is buried somewhere or hidden in plain site--I searched the forums with the google site search function but couldn't seem to find a list.

I'm wondering if there is a list anyone has compiled of the decent all-manual RF cameras. I thought of this as I was researching the new Zeiss Ikon. I was really liking it until I realized it requires batteries to function at all. I'm now interested in compiling a list and comparing all the cameras that are capable of functioning fully manual--even ones that may have battery supported functions (metering, etc.).

 

[kshapero]

Never seen such a list but try looking at the camera articles section of www.cameraquest.com

 

[Pirate]

What are your requirements for being on the list? Current production, Still plenty in the Used market place, No light meter at all, With a light meter is ok but it must not use batteries to work the shutter, .......??

Is there a specific Mount that you are looking for also?

Looking for German? Japanese? Japanese? .......

 

[rover]

I think there is a thread with a list somewhere here, maybe we had a list of M Mount RFs. But I do remember something like this.

 

[ruby.monkey]

Why is battery dependence - and on such a common battery - an issue in this day and age?

 

[Filson Back]

What are your requirements for being on the list? Current production, Still plenty in the Used market place, No light meter at all, With a light meter is ok but it must not use batteries to work the shutter, .......??

Is there a specific Mount that you are looking for also?

Looking for German? Japanese? Japanese? .......

I'm mainly interested 35mm cameras, current and old production--no particular mount. Leica M almost certainly has the widest range of lenses available so those are probably of most interest. The light meter function is of less interest--more interested in cameras that work without batteries, thus offering a wider operating range.

Thanks!

 

[Pirate]

Why is battery dependence - and on such a common battery - an issue in this day and age?

Prime example- I'm in Iraq right now. I move around a lot. Yes I could keep a handful of batteries in my case, but why? It's so much easier to have a camera that doesn't need them, and knowing the EV system is just too easy. I don't need a meter for anything up until night time.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Leica MP, Bessa R2, Bessa R2M for starters. Battery for the meter only. M-Mount, so will also take screw mount with the adapter.

 

[ferider]

For interchangeable lens cameras:

Leica M mount:
- Bessa T, Bessa R2, R[234]M
- Leica M1 - M6, MP (and derivatives)
- Leica/Minolta CL

Leica LTM mount: Basically all of them including:
- Bessa R
- All Barnacks
- All Canon RFs
- Lots of other Leica copies, including Russian copies, Niccas, Raid, etc.

Contax RF: all of them

Nikon RF: all of them

And others that I missed. It's much easier to answer the opposite question, which (interchangeable lens) RFs are battery dependent: that would be Hexar RF, Minolta CLE, Epson RD1*, ZI, Bessa R[234]A, Leica M7, M8, M9. That's it, AFAIK.

Roland.

 

[Filson Back]

Thanks Ferider--good way to look at it.

 

[kshapero]

Prime example- I'm in Iraq right now. I move around a lot. Yes I could keep a handful of batteries in my case, but why? It's so much easier to have a camera that doesn't need them, and knowing the EV system is just too easy. I don't need a meter for anything up until night time.

Stay safe brother