Rangefinders (Changeable Lens)

Rangefinder (changeable lens) camera reviews – the rangefinder cameras reviewed here allow the photographer to change the lens on the front of the camera. With this comes a series of different lens mounts. The most notable being Leica Thread (/Screw) Mount (LTM/LSM), Leica M-Mount, Nikon S Mount and Contax rangefinder mount. The latter comes in two varieties, internal (for 50mm lenses) and external (for other focal lengths). Sound complicated? It isn’t really.

If you are unaware of the concept of a rangefinder, you can find out more about them in this article: What is a Rangefinder Camera, and is one right for you?

As with all the content on this website, if you find something of interest, you can find more similar products by clicking on the tags you will find at the bottom of the reviews.

14 August, 2020

Fed 2 Russian Rangefinder Mini-Review – By Julian Higgs

By julianhiggs

Why would anyone want to buy a 50 plus year of Fed 2 Russian Rangefinder camera? I have been interested in older LTM rangefinders ever since I bought a charity shop Fed 4 and a ...

6 July, 2020

Leica M10-P Review – A Brilliantly Underwhelming Digital Rangefinder

By Hamish Gill

When I first got my Leica M10-P I referred to it as being brilliantly underwhelming. This isn’t the most complimentary sounding comment I don’t think, but actually it comes from...

8 June, 2020

Pixii (Model A1112) – A Primer into this New Digital Rangefinder Concept

By Hamish Gill

For the last few months, I’ve been beta testing Pixii - a new smartphone-connected, 12 megapixel, APS-C format, screen-less digital rangefinder camera that will be hitting the m...

9 March, 2020

Leica IIIa Review – My Final Roll with an Underused but Long-Prized Camera

By Hamish Gill

I’ve had my Leica iiia for a long time now, and though I didn’t use it for about 4 1/2 years, I hadn’t been able to rationalise selling it. At least, that was the case until a c...

5 November, 2019

Canon Model 7 – A Journey To Find “My” Camera – By Gavin Bain

By GavinBain

It has often been said that a lot of the great photographers had “their” camera. Capa had his Contax 2, Cartier-Bresson his M3, John Free his Nikon F3 and so forth. That’s not t...

17 June, 2019

Leica M10-P vs. Sony A7riii and Shooting the Simon and Garfunkel Story

By Hamish Gill

A couple of months ago I got myself up very early one Sunday and travelled to Plymouth to take some photos for the production company of a stage production called “The Simon and...

4 April, 2019

Leica M6 (yet another) Review – Is it worth the hype? – By Joe Monat

By Joe Monat

Yet another Leica M6 review, so I will try to keep it brief in the overstated aspects of the camera and more so discuss my experiences with it so far and how it has helped me gr...

23 March, 2019

Epson R-D1 review – a digi-film camera – By Simone Zuccarini

By simone zuccarini

The Epson R-D1; the camera for just in case you enjoy the feeling you get from shooting film, but you can't renounce the comforts of a digital camera! It was in fact the first d...

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