What's your favorite non-rangefinder camera and why?

[tsiklonaut]

Pentax 67

Pentax 67

Pentax 67, the best 6x7 SLR ever made IMHO. Mine's been through hell, literally: 200 000+ kilometers on motorcycle, awful lot of this covered offroad, it's been in some 75+ countries and visited 6 continents through wet, vibrations, cold, dust and desert heat - plus the camera is about as old as I am! Looks very battle worn, dented, paint is coming off, the bits and bolts are dropping off occasionally, it's also rusting but it still shoots perfect! No other MF SLF would've survived this all, period. P67 is a battle tank. I probably will take it into my own grave.

Just wish I had the money to buy 67ii for an experiment... But not sure how it'd cope with the offroad travelling on motorcycle - wet, shocks, vibrations etc.

 

[Godfrey]

No camera comes close to a high-end DSLR as an image making machine.

Depends on what kind of images you want to make, don't you think?

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[Godfrey]

A favorite non-rangefinder camera is my Ricoh GXR. Three cameras in one, depending on which camera unit I fit into it, TTL electronic viewing, very very capable.

Other favorite non-rangefinder cameras:

Hasselblad SWC
Nikon F
Polaroid SX-70
Minox C and EC
Olympus E-1
Leica X2

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[giellaleafapmu]

Any large format camera for movements and incredible definition, the Fuji S5 Pro (it's digital I know) because even now that sensor technology has grown so much I can hardly find anything which produces nicer files (or maybe because I got to know it so well that it is what I can use with the best results), the Nikon F because when I was a kid I wanted it but couldn't afford it and now I can, whatever I have with me because...great cameras left home don't take nice pictures.

GLF

 

[Kwesi]

XPro 1 with summicrons and elmarits - yummilicious!