What is your favourite non-Leica RF cam?

[Kent]

I don't know if such a thread has been started some time ago. I was pretty sure that it would exist, but I could not find it.

Anyway, if there is one, please link to it. Thanks.


What is your favourite non-Leica RF cam?
(No matter if fixed lens or interchangeable.)

That's my list:

1. Yashica Electro 35GS (Yashinon DX 1.7/45)* - One my fav cams of all times!
2. Zorki-4 (mainly with the J8)* - best viewfinder of all Russian RF cams IMHO
3. AGFA Super Silette Automatic (Color-Solinar 2.8/50)* - much better than its reputation, Leica envy cam of former times
4. Olympus 35 RC (E.Zuiko 2.8/42) - well built and good lens
5. Minolta Hi-Matic E (Rokkor 1.7/40) - very nice and fast lens
6. Konica Auto S3 (Hexanon 1.8/38) - nice and compact
7. Rollei XF 35 (Rollei Sonnar 2.3/40) - nice design, good lens but plasticky
8. Minolta Hi-Matic F (Rokkor 2.7/38) - I liked the "E" better
9. FED-3b (mainly with the Industar-61) - my first interchangeable one, I prefer the Zorki-4 now
10. FED-2 (mainly with the Industar-26) - not bad but too crude for my taste

* = still in my possession.

 

[ray*j*gun]

Difficult to say but in medium format my 500c/m and in 35mm Contax IIa then Contax IIIa.

 

[maddoc]

Nikon S2. 🙂

 

[Peter_S]

If that counts - Contax G2.

(I really like the concept of the Fuji GF670/Voitländer Bessa III too, but do not own one)

 

[HuubL]

1. Contax IIa
2. Fed II
3. Konica auto S2

In reality, I hardly shoot with these.

 

[thegman]

That I own, Zeiss Super Ikonta III. That I don't own, Fujifilm GF670/Bessa III. Mamiya 7 perhaps too. In 35mm, would need to be Zeiss Ikon.

 

[shiro_kuro]

Plaubel Makina W 67
Plaubel Makina 670

 

[FrankS]

Konica Hexar RF. I think this one is an M7 killer.


Next up for consideration is the Konica Hexar AF. Not a RF camera, but very sweet.

 

[mfogiel]

35mm RF ? That's obvious: Zeiss Ikon ZM.

 

[Harry Caul]

Plaubel Makina W 67
Plaubel Makina 670

I don't have a wide yet, but I love my 670 and the 67 before it.

 

[Terry Christian]

Cosina Voigtländer Bessa R2. Everything I need and nothing I don't.
Ricoh 500. A 1950s chrome classic, and I love the bottom trigger wind.

 

[Landberg]

Mamiya 6 is the best!

 

[newspaperguy]

Canon P
Bessa R
Kiev II

 

[Godfrey]

I haven't found much I like more than the M4-2 and CL in 35mm, that puts me into the Voigtländer Bessa III.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Nikon SP.
Then Konica Hexar (AF.) Yes, it's a real optical rangefinder, just not one focused by the human eyeball.

Phil Forrest

 

[BTMarcais]

For what I have, the linhof super technika 4x5. And my little old zeiss folders.

For what I don't have? That's harder. I can usually find something I like about most cameras....

-Brian

 

[Colin G.]

Zeiss Ikon ZM & Canon Canonet QL17 GIII

 

[jeffrypittman]

Mamiya 7 - I don't know why I sold it!

 

[FrankHarries]

Mamiya 6
Hexar RF
Those two are my favorites - got used and loved a little bit more than my M6...

 

[colyn]

Canon 7
Canon P
Retina IIIC.....