Rangefinder Cameras Archives

8 July, 2022

Yashica Electro 35 GT – Finding a Rangefinder – By Francois Marlier

By Francois Marlier

My name is François, and I’m a 30 year old born in Belgium and currently living in Denmark. When I was around 15, my granddad gave me his Canon AE-1, describing it to me at the ...

16 May, 2022

Minolta Hi-Matic E – Minolta’s ‘Difficult’ Second Electro Camera – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

The Hi-Matic E (previously also reviewed by Hamish here) is a Minolta rangefinder with a Rokkor lens. The lens is a 40 mm f/1.7 lens of six elements in four groups. The same spe...

8 March, 2022

Contax G1 – Much more in-focus than out-of-focus – By Chantel Wakefield

By Chantel Wakefield

“I loved owning one for two weeks until every photo came back out of focus.” This was a comment from a popular YouTuber under another popular YouTuber’s review of the Contax G1 ...

31 January, 2022

Kodak Retina IIIC – Back into Film with a Charity Auction Find – By Stewart Waller

By Stewart Waller

I recently fell for analog cameras, especially vintage ones. It feels like a rabbit hole much of the time, chasing that elusive, cosmetically beautiful, functionally accurate, 6...

10 December, 2021

Pixii (A1571) Review – New Upgrades and Some Personal Experiences

By Hamish Gill

For a long time, the only digital rangefinders on the market were Leicas. Now there’s Pixii. A screen-less, APS-C sensor, “connected” rangefinder that’s quite a lot less cash th...

8 November, 2021

Konica Auto S3 – Small and Perfectly Formed – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

Coinciding with their centenary in the early 70s, Konica fused two of their camera lines together. Since 1968 they had made a compact rangefinder camera called the C35. They had...

1 November, 2021

Canonet Review – 43 Years in Preparation – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

In a way, this Canonet review has been 43 years in preparation. I was a teenager when I got into photography. I used to borrow my father’s various rangefinder cameras: fixed len...

28 September, 2021

Leica IIf Red Dial: Nostalgia, or Tool for Serious Storytelling? – By Exphotog

By exphotog

After years of working as a concert photographer, I decided to move to analog full-time last year. The transition wasn’t easy—I had to reconcile the comfort of shooting 900 fram...

Rollin Banderob on Brightin Star 28mm f/2.8 XSlim Pro-M Review on a Leica M11
Glad you like it so much. Your kit sounds wonderfully small. I had heard in a video someone finding the…
Rollin Banderob on Brightin Star 28mm f/2.8 XSlim Pro-M Review on a Leica M11
Thank you for reading. The size is so small I could actually easily put the camera in a large winter-coat…
Scott Micciche on 5 Frames with Kodak Portra 400 in a Pentax 67
I believe the 75mm Pentax 645 lens adopts very well to the GFX and it is a stellar, compact lens.…

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