This is not going to be a review, just some early thoughts on my experiences using the oldest camera I have so far owned. The Voigtlander Vito B has been reviewed many times, not least by Hamish on this site here. I hope, however, that this article might be of general interest or in some …
After returning to analogue photography a few years ago with a Minolta Hi-Matic 7 rangefinder, I began looking for a second film camera. I was looking for something totally different, in particular something smaller and lighter. I soon discovered I have missed the boat by a few years to get a reasonably priced premium contact, with prices for the likes of Contax T2, Olympus Mju-ii, Yashica T5 etc. reaching higher and higher prices. My experience in buying a rangefinder showed me not to be disheartened and there are lots of hidden gems waiting to be discovered.
Sometime last winter I started reading and taking an interest in online articles about a resurgence of analogue photography. I have long had an interest in photography which I am sure mostly comes from my dad. We used cameras lots as children, I had a variety of compacts although I couldn’t tell you which ones, more interesting were my dad’s SLRs. One of which was a Minolta XD7, which he used; the other a Zenit E. The Zenit was the children’s SLR, my dad’s from the 70s, a big hulk of a camera with a broken light meter. We had a variety of lenses, a normal, wide angle and telephoto. It’s the memory of taking some great photos with this that spiked my interest in film photography.
