Received my Bessa R today

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So here she is...

First impressions:

- not heavy
- not cheap looking
- huge viewfinder
- rangefinder patch doesnt seem so bright as the one on my M2
- shutter noise is really loud (compared to M2, Kiev 4a and Fed2)
- Meter is really easy to read, and is usefull on tricky situations


Let's see how I feel about it after some rolls 🙂

Regards!

Sérgio
 
One of my favorite cameras. It's with me right now here at work. Stuck it in my briefcase with a 35mm lens attached. You never know.
 
januaryman said:
One of my favorite cameras. It's with me right now here at work. Stuck it in my briefcase with a 35mm lens attached. You never know.
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Me too! I keep mine on my desk! I take it with me to lunch every day, sometimes I shoot, sometimes I don't.

MIng.. I'm in NYC too.. We should start a Bessa R users group!

Sergio, what lens are you using with it?
 
I started scanning a roll with Hp5+ at 800 shot 80% with Jupiter-8 and 20% with the 15mm super heliar.
All shots seem fine.. But I had some weird stuff, sometimes the meter didnt light up the leds... I havent change the battery, does this seem like bateries dying ou am I in trouble?

Now I have Fuji NPS160 on it...


Regards
 
I think the batteries are on the way out.. Great thing about the R is you only need the batteries for the meter. My meter started flickering then crapped out completely. I put new batteries in and it was stopped flickering.
 
Armed with my Bessa R, I took a lunchtime walk in DC, a few blocks from where I work and got this shot, which appeared in the Schmap - Washington DC website edition 4.

 
Hello, I hope I'm not stealing the thread, I tought this was better than opening another one.

I'm glad to announce I'm now a (black! 😎) Bessa owner too! 😀
It came yesterday from fdigital, perfect seller.

Just a (really silly, I know) question: am I just going to screw the lens in, since there is not a lug, or something to stop rotation, when am I supposed to stop screwing? Just when I "feel" it's enough? Of course I'm not going to overscrew it with all my force, but I guess that not enough will alter the lens-film correct distance.

It should be the silliest question in the entire forum, but my doubt comes from the fact that I'm waiting for the lens, so I can't try... :bang:
Yes, I bought a J8 one evilbay, just to test the camera. I was hoping it could arrive shortly. It's been a month... Anybody knows if it's normal to wait this much to go from an ex-russian republic to Italy? (Seller was westernbid.com).

Think about it... I'm spending days with my new bessa on a shelf :bang:

Oh, well... I'm writing too much....
 
ibcrewin said:
Wait.. I thought the j-8 doesn't fit the bessa.. comes to close to the shutter..I might be wrong
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I think you are thinking of the J-3. I use my J-8 with my Bessa R, Bessa L and Leica M1. No problem with any of them and a lot more compact than my Nokton 1.5 and as good a picture taker at f5.6 and f8. Enjoy it.
Kurt M.
 
J8 fits perfectly to the bessa, you might be talking about the J-12. Some J-12 dont even fit the camera, others fit, but obviously they render the meter useless because it stays under the lens...
I screw my screw lenses until they stop, just enough strength so that they wont get loose when using the aperture and focusing rings..

I bought a new battery to my Bessa, and that seems to have been the problem. 🙂

Teo, in Portugal, when you order products from outside EU, they go through customs and usually the whole process takes about one month. Its really annoying, but is something we have to live with (My 28mm Ultron from CameraQuest is there).

Maybe in Italy you suffer from the same problem...

I will be posting some shots from Bessa's first roll in a few minutes... I am currently at scanning process....

Regards!
 
We suffer a lot for the slowness of our customs 😀
But the sad thing is also that the ebayer didn't answer to messages...

oh, well, 15-20 days more and I'll take a lens from RFF Classifieds...
 
I'm going to jump in this thread too, because I just received my Bessa-R, bought from RFF member Nokton48. It's a great camera, and I think the viewfinder is amazing. It's definitely the Jupiter-12 35/2.8 that doesn't fit, that's the lens which interferes with the shutter curtain on Bessas
 
Just another observation about the bessa: I've noticed (fondling it a bit, since I can't shoot for now...) that the rewind lever seems to come into position "automagically". There's definitely a very light "force" that keep it folded or unfolded, not in middle positions.
I guess there's some magnetized part (the lever?).

Am I correct? Kudos to Cosina engineers, this is something I've never seen before in cameras...
 
My Jupiter-12 fits.. really very very close to touch the camera case ehehe
But I rather use it on the M2. I tested it with shutter open on Bulb.

Regards

Robburrito said:
I'm going to jump in this thread too, because I just received my Bessa-R, bought from RFF member Nokton48. It's a great camera, and I think the viewfinder is amazing. It's definitely the Jupiter-12 35/2.8 that doesn't fit, that's the lens which interferes with the shutter curtain on Bessas
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