Perfect available light portraiture

[dukovac]

I'm into available light portraiture and have a Kiev 4 with a jupiter 85mm/2 and I'm very satisfied with it, but however I would like to have something smaller, lighter, with the same focusing precision, same shutter noise and similar lens. Is there anything like that out there? I mean except M3 and MP🙂 PReferably rangefinder of course. I thought about Oly OM1 or OM2 (smaller, lighter). That way I would get a nice bright big viewfinder but I hear it's somewhat louder than the Kiev and SLR vibration could be still an issue for long exposure, although OMs are supposed to be much better than other SLRs at both noise and vibration.

Thanx for every suggestion!

 

[Kin Lau]

The Kiev 4 + J9 is a great combo for exactly what you mentioned, and the extra weight actually helps to steady it with slow shutter speeds.

If an M3 is out of the price range, then there really is nothing else out there that is any lighter or smaller or cheaper that is not an SLR.

As the saying goes "good, fast and cheap, pick any two".