rangefinders are in vogue as home furnishings now

[Seele]

A long-running advertising campagne for tourism in New Zealand included many vignettes of people enjoying themselves in various parts of the country, one of them was a woman photographing with a Voigtlander Prominent; I often wonder if it would look anything as "classy" if she used one of the current "Plastic Fantastic" cameras.

 

[dgray]

I was browsing a site on Russian rangefinders and my wife looked over my shoulder and commented on how nice a couple of those would look on one of our shelves! I am currently in the market for some nice looking Leica LTM copies for a cheap price (she prefers ones that don't work - so I won't borrow her decorations and never give them back!). It's strange shopping for old cameras for my wife and not me.

 

[Andrew McK]

fashionable rangefinders makes my flesh creep.
Don't want to see them become a fad. not to see them end up in bookend hell

buy them. look after them. use them. make beautiful images with them.

 

[wamjam]

a friend of mine has a recording studio and he is also into photography. some non-working cameras are being used as book ends. 😛

 

[RML]

fashionable rangefinders makes my flesh creep.
Don't want to see them become a fad. not to see them end up in bookend hell

buy them. look after them. use them. make beautiful images with them.

For many of these cameras ending up as a bookshelf end is better than where they are now: some old box in the attick, collecting dust and just aging. I buy them, I look after them, but mostly I don't use them. They're on the shelf in our living room and they make a beautiful picture. 🙂

 

[wamjam]

For many of these cameras ending up as a bookshelf end is better than where they are now: some old box in the attick, collecting dust and just aging. I buy them, I look after them, but mostly I don't use them. They're on the shelf in our living room and they make a beautiful picture. 🙂

that's what i did with my old stuck-up olympus OM10
🙂