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Have you looked at the koni omega rapid or the mamiya universal?
Both are medium format rangefinders that are affordable and have good glass.
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(..edited post so there's an image on the top of the page. I shot a SMC Pentax-M 1:1.7 alongside a Nikon 1:1.4 with same film, settings / develeoped in the same tank etc. - long story short I can't tell much of a difference)
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Thanks for your input as well Föhn.
Yes I have seen these. Very nice cameras, but not for me; they're too heavy and bulky in the long run.
At the moment I'm trying to convince myself of giving square format (and mirror inverted focussing, ha) another chance - I do have an old Rolleicord here, with a nice 75mm / 1:3.5 Xenar, it's not exacly slim as it's a classic TLR design - but it's less than 900g which is totally within the limits.
It's just that these "budget Rolleicords" have a really really dim focussing screen - going out with this on a cloudy day in winter you have a hard time telling what's what really).
So might invest in a better screen for this maybe..Anyone on here upgraded a dim screen with one from Rick ?
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Have you looked at (...) mamiya universal?
You know what I have just been looking into these as they're so lovely.
Ha, great cameras. Can't really see myself shooting-, nor schlepping one of these around as they're half my weight probably.
I first saw the picture on wikipedia where it looks somewhat compact, but later realized these are actuallly bigger than a fucking RB67!
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Thanks for the suggestion.
I looked into these a while back. There's some beautiful cameras from that era..
In the end I decided against going that route, the major reasons were
a) while being rather cheap cameras that age will most likely need a complete CLA at least
b) dim / old / small finders - if any at all
c) narrow range of shutter speeds & slow glass