Nice RFs

[Jeffrey Frey <jeff@eng.umd.edu>]

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Subject: Nicest RFs

Super Ikontas? Plaubel Makinas?  NOT 35mm cameras. I think my favorite
non-35 RF was the Fuji 645, which folded (NOT the 645S).  Unfortunately,
that was discontinued before I ever managed to get one.

But REAL RFs are 35s, and my favorites are:

Leica IIIc
Leica IIIg
Subject: Re: More on what to get
Leica M2
Leica CL (questions on this one, due to the hints of unreliability I've
 heard, but never really had confirmed)
Minolta CLE, with auto-flash.
 The 28, 40, and 90mm lenses for the MinoltaCLE/CL were very nice, too.

Really interesting RFs:

Canon 7 (a real bargain today, at least in Japan)
Canon 7s (much rarer and, except for the CdS meter, why so much more
  desirable than the 7?)
(I don;t like the earlier Canon RFs as much because I DO like the
built-iin meters and vari-focal viewfinders of the 7, and of the
Leica M's and IIIg).
Voigtlander Vitessa (I have a nice one with the builtin meter and f2.8
lens, although I would have liked to have an f2 version)
Kodak Retina IIIc or is it IIIC?
Fed 5 - the peasant's Canon 7
Bolsey B2

I have used all of these, and also an Olympus XA, which is cute but has a very
disappointing lens--I get sharper pictures by guess-focusing a Minox 35GT
than by using the RF on the XA; an Olympus 35RC, which was happily mentioned
here earlier, and deservedly so; and the little Konica version of the RC


although the Konica is not, for some undefinable reason, as nice as the 
Olympus.

Any other suggestions?

Jeff