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  • I'm going to keep looking for a rangefinder, but if anyone has any tips for a film noob (apart from teh array of info already out there haha) I would appreciate!

    Would help to know what your price range is, and what sort of pictures you're after / how you're going to use the camera.
    Also how small you need it to be (very small and very good lens will be more pricey of course) and what focal leght you'd prefer etc...

  • I did reply earlier but my phone apparently disagreed -.- and definitely should have provided more info

    Price - no more than £100 maximum, i know there's value to be had way lower

    Use - probs just general street photography if I'm just trying the medium out. WIll leave the specific stuff and all the myriad lenses to the dslr. I use my 30mm 1.4 on the crop sensor for all round stuff so I imagine 45-50mm would be nice.

    Size - That was definitely one of the big draws of rangefinder cameras that I should look for, even though I was going to buy the Yashica Lynx 14 which is a tank...

  • Yea, there are a lot of very nice rangefinders (also below £100), most of them are tanks though.
    If you don't mind this it's cool, but in the end this means you'll not just put this in your pocket, but need a bag or shoulder-strap, or you're not going to take it with you.
    Are you really sure you need / want a rangefinder (as in: rangefinder-patch manual focusing) ?
    Or does AF maybe make sense for what you're actually going to do with it?
    There's quite a lot of nice, small, light sub-£100 point-and-shoots out there with nice lenses...

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