R3M Anniversary Edition

[stratcat]

Hello everyone,

I'm thinking about buying one of the R3M anniversary kits, but I wanted to ask first in the forum about the collective experience with this camera. Is it a good buy or should I instead go for the regular production R3M?

Thanks in advance.

cheers!

 

[kshapero]

The anniversary kit includes the excellent Heliar 50/2 lens, but the cameras themselves perform exactly the same.

 

[sojournerphoto]

I nearly bought one recently, just for the romance and the lens. Decided not to in the end, but the Rxm cameras are nice - I had an R2m and an R4m in the past and only sold them because I picked up a second Ikon. (I do confess that the lure of a mechanical camera has since caught me however...)

Mike

 

[stratcat]

Thanks for your replies. I think I will buy the Anniversary set.

Anyone else? Any actual owners of the Anniversary R3M that might want to comment on their camera? Thanks again.

 

[OSFlanker]

I bought a silver R3M 250 Jahre set recently. Unfortunately I cannot share any user experience yet as I have been using the Zeiss Ikon (bought used) and keeping the brand new R3M in the box!

 

[Tom A]

I have an early R3M 250 edition. used heavily as it has a/ The Heliar 50f2 (very good) and b/ frames for the 40 Nokton's and c/ most important to me free standing 75mm frame lines. I use it with my Summicron 75, Heliar 75f1.8 and f2.5. Much better than the M6/MP' s cluttered 50/75. Also works well with the 50mm focal length.
No issues with the camera - has worked perfectly since day 1.

 

[alfredian]

Life-size viewing

Life-size viewing

Big Plus: life-size (1:1.0 ratio) viewing. Next big plus: separate frames for the 75 mm = uncluttered viewfinder.

I own a boxed-set Jahre (chrome) + the collapsible 50/2 Heliar. After that sat on the shelf for awhile I got an identical body from KEH - used it, loved it, but my M4/MP led to declining use, so I sold it to an RFFer last Spring.

Main temptation calling its siren song from the "investment" boxed set is the 50/2 Heliar - I hear it's a fantastic lens and I love my collapsible Elmar 50/2.8 - and my collapsible 90/4 Elmars.

The Bessa RxM bocies are great - I'll keep my R4m forever, but my R3m was double-duplicated I also use Nikon S2/S3 which have 1:1 "see-through" finders. Oh, one other plus, but the Rxm bodies seem a bit more compact than M4/MP.

Hope this helps.

 

[stratcat]

Thanks again for your comments. I guess I'll go for it!