Use the Contax and Kiev clone bodies? Squinty viewfinders and sporadic lens choices made that a no as well. Perhaps in places like Europe and the USA, the supply is greater and therefore it was more affordable but in Australia my guess is that very few made it down here to begin with and those that have survived would require a full overhaul.ĭisheartened with the prospect of having to outlay so much for a IIIg body and the likelihood it would need a full rehaul, I considered my other options… Return to the Soviet LTM bodies such as the Zorki and Fed? No, I wasn’t keen on the sketchiness of the quality. It seemed so romantic the last of Leica’s screw mount bodies styled closely to the classic Barnack look… and then I saw the price. I abandoned the pursuit for interchangeable lens rangefinders when I started using vintage medium format folders but eventually made my way back after becoming enamoured with the Leica IIIg.Ĭue hours of internet surfing to discover and research every possible thing about this model… I then jumped ship when I got lucky during “garage sale” find with a Contax IIIa but the lens options were pretty limited, and the squinty viewfinder wasn’t very user friendly. That was my journey with interchangeable rangefinders my first was a Fed 5b around the middle of 2017 which was quickly replaced by the slightly better built Zorki 4k. You end up scouring online web stores week after week, reading multiple conflicting reviews until you eventually just hit the “buy now” button. You start somewhere, are inspired (or made jealous) by someone else’s gear. This is a review of the Canon 7 Leica thread mount rangefinder – but first, my path to purchasing one.Īnalogue photography is one giant and almost never-ending rabbit hole.
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