Uncommon, Rare, and Collector's Delights.

wlewisiii said:
Ok, got home and mounted it and it, like the Canon 50/1.4 is right at 180 degrees from infinity to minimum focus.

For comparison my Cosina Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton is 90 degrees but my Nikkor 50/2 is about 300 😵 so there you go 🙂
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Really interesting to track the variations — I’m more of a fan of those in the 140-270 range and have “had to sell” off some in the 90 range that I just couldn’t nail focus with.
 
Meyer Hotshoe-mount Rangefinder

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In response to post #397 from milescl, there is currently another rigid 5cm/f2 Sonnar for sale on eBay, it has serial number 1866252. The list in this post does not appear to include this serial number
 
Sonnar Brian said:
This one is very rare. I used to hit all the camera shows in the area, and many antique shows and stores. Some rare stuff popped up, mostly before Ebay.

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The camera is fascinating, but I find the image interesting too. It's a while ago but do you remember which camera you used to take it? I have an odd fascination with date backs, and don't remember seeing one before that formats the dates as YYYY/MM/DD rather than the more usual YY MM DD.
 
largedrink said:
I bought this finder a couple of years ago on a local site, according to my reading it's a VISET. It has 3,5/5,0/9/13,5 settings. What would be the correct contemporary Leica for this type of finder?

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It is a VISET and dates from 1931-1932. It would be contemporary with Leica models I and II (or C and D). Search for Leica Accessory Guide and see a very interesting "booklet" on the BUTKUS web site.

Bill
 
heritagecameras said:
The camera is fascinating, but I find the image interesting too. It's a while ago but do you remember which camera you used to take it? I have an odd fascination with date backs, and don't remember seeing one before that formats the dates as YYYY/MM/DD rather than the more usual YY MM DD.
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It's a Digital P&S, my Ricoh CX-5, bought used for $30. My grab and go project camera.

I last used a Nikon N8008s with MF-21 Databack, and F3HP with MF-14. But- been a while.
 
I might have post this here before somewhere, but this a rare Zuiho Japanese-made Honor Leica III copy that I just lucked into by chance one day on eBay in an out place listing with no associated fan-fare. It is in close to new condition, except for some deterioration on the film counter dial numbering. There are a few of these traded in Japan, but they are rare here. This one appears never to have been used! Someone obviously bought it decades ago, stored it away, and now it sees the light of day!





 
dexdog said:
I think this is interesting because of the overall complexity/ridiculousness of this finder, a Canon twin turret zoom finder. I do not know when this finder was made, but I am guessing late 1950s. I have used this finder a few times, and while functional, it is a lot of stuff to be hanging off your camera, and very likely to be snagged on camera straps, sweaters, etc. That said, the view through this finder is quite bright and framing is accurate. The smaller turret has click stops for 50, 45, 40 and 35mm. If you attach the separate lens for 21 to 28mm to the smaller turret, these same click stops provide framing for 28, 25 and 21mm. The second turret provides views for 85, 90, 100, 105, 110, 125 and 135. The shoe of the finder has a lever for parallax adjustment from 3.5 feet to infinity. Lastly, the finder and 21-28 attachment have fitted leather cases lined in thick blue velvet. At 6.5 cm long and about 5cm tall it is a chunky finder, and weighs 140g/4.9 ounces



I missed the focus on the last pic, but losing enough sunlight to re-take the photo.
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That Canon system is one heck of a nice shooting, nicely styled, very functional system. I just got my maiden roll scans back from the lab on my Canon L1, and Canon 50mm/f2.8. Sharp and plenty of glow even wide open. Every shot of Fujicolor 400 was bang on and Leicalike. Enjoy that Canon. Agree the dual viewfinder would get in the way!
 
David Murphy said:
I might have post this here before somewhere, but this a rare Zuiho Japanese-made Honor Leica III copy that I just lucked into by chance one day on eBay in an out place listing with no associated fan-fare. It is in close to new condition, except for some deterioration on the film counter dial numbering. There are a few of these traded in Japan, but they are rare here. This one appears never to have been used! Someone obviously bought it decades ago, stored it away, and now it sees the light of day!





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Nice. Reminds me that I need to take mine out for some shooting.
 
I recently purchased a group of Canon rangefinder lenses and only after they arrived did I realize the 35mm f1.8 (serial # 10,005) represents the 5th example made in the first production run.

This is now the earliest lens (in terms of its production range) I own.

Excited to take it out tonight for the first time at a friends gathering — shooting tmax 400 on the M-A.

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