kenny12 said:
Hello everyone, I've never owned a range finder but I have an assortment of DSLR gear, however its just too heavy to lug around everywhere so I wish to buy one to carry around.
I'm from Australia and I want to spend about 50-100 dollars on one. Can someone reccommend me models or even sell one to me?
Things I appreciate are
-large viewfinders
-easy to focus
-under F2 apature (the lower the better)
-quiet shutter speed
I will mainly be shooting in b/w and a in camera metering system is not necessary, although handy
Well you can go with a fixed mount lens RF, but then you WILL get a serious GAS attack and thus begins that long road of deciding which camera REALLY works best for you.
I started with the Canonet 17 [still have it, my son uses the one I bought new] Liked it so much I got one off ebay [turned out to be never used
😱 ]
on to Bessa Rs [the lust of interchangable lenses is really fed when you come from SLRs]
My current favorite is a Bessa R2 bayonet mount and either the 35/2.5 or the 28/1.9 [usually this lens]
Personally I have fumble fingers when I try to screw the CV lenses [I think it has to do with the RF coupling] and I like playing with lenses when I go out to shoot, so the bayonet is great. I do carry the R in my car with either that 35 or the non coupled 25 [ok, I think this lens SUCKS, but only because of the lack of coupling, I am looking for an L body to see if that will help
🙁 ]
good thing for me I am a camera COLLECTOR as well as a shooter, so I do not have a problem with extra gear [with 2 sons very into photography, one trying to make money with cameras doing event {read weddin*** photography I always have a home for cameras that I may no longer use, but don't want to part with.
the point of all this is simple, do not rule out an interchangable lens camera, because of costs, buying the right one the first time [like that is possible
😀] is less expensive than going thru each step until you get to what you really wanted all the time.
