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Rangefinder Cameras

Rangefinder camera reviews – Here you will find a list of all the rangefinder camera reviews that have been published on 35mmc. If you aren’t aware of the nature of a rangefinder camera, you can find a guide to what they are and how they work here.

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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...
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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...
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21 September, 2021

The Leica IIIF RD – My First Impressions – By Alyssa Chiarello

By Alyssa Chiarello

When I first saw the Leica IIIF, it was in a video someone posted on Instagram that demonstrated how to load film into the camera. I’d heard about these rangefinders being a rea...
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27 July, 2021

Minolta Hi-Matic 7s and A Sentimental Journey Discovering True Optical Prints – by Shawn Granton

By shawn granton

It was the first week of January 2020 and I was down for the count with a cold. "A perfect start to a new year", I thought to myself, not realizing what would be in store just a...
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22 June, 2021

Canonet 28 Review – The modest Canon – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

There have been at least two cameras called a Canonet 28. The first was a very basic viewfinder camera with a selenium cell. This is the second one, sometimes called the 'New 28...
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15 June, 2021

Contax IIa review – Chasing that Classic Look with an Unaccountably Affordable Vintage German Rangefinder – By Phil Calvit

By Phil Calvit

Like most of you good 35mmc readers, I’d love to own a classic Leica. And like most of you (unless you’re a more posh lot than I’d assumed), I’ve been unwilling to make the life...
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8 June, 2021

Leica M10-D – The Essence of Photography, or is Cheating Allowed? – By Marc Wick

By Marc Wick

This is a tale of my experiences with a Leica M10-D, but my journey with a digital M without a screen didn't start with this camera. I used a Leica M-D for a while in addition t...
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1 June, 2021

Olympus 35 SPn – A Review of a Quality Compact – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

The Olympus 35 SPn is a relatively large and quite impressive-looking rangefinder camera. It is about 5 inches/13 cm long, 3 inches/7.5 cm high. At the time it was originally re...
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