Author Topic: Recommend a good Medium Format Rangefinder camera? (Read 1573 times)

n2hhr · « **on:** June 24, 2011, 11:24:24 AM »

Can anyone recommend a good quality medium format rangefinder? I need something with manual focus that I can shoot IR film in. I would hope to get a zoom lens from wide to medium angle if possible but yet still stay in the $700 range for the complete system. There are just so many of them out there that I don't know what is good.

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2011, 11:39:39 AM »

Fuji GA645 Professional Medium Format (Fixed short zoom, AF)
Fuji GA645 AF with MF Zone Focusing $499.00 BIN
It is a P/S basically... with an excellent lens and a 645 format.. It does not have a True RF, but in MF mode it has a distance scale that lets you know at what distance the lens if focused on.

A small review/preview of the Fuji GA645

I don't think there is any other RF like this one... the other Fuji's (xx670's) have interchangeable lenses and more expensive, And the Mamiya 6 or 7 are costly also.

tamoio · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2011, 04:18:16 PM »

The old-school version of the Fuji was fun too, if you can find one in good shape:

I also used something for several years called a Plaubel-Makina that was a 6X7 folder with a nikkor lens (!), great camera but tricky to service the rangefinder if it gets out of registration. There was also a wide angle version that was rare and lusted-after.

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2011, 04:34:02 PM »

Oh, the GS645W... excellent find and Manual as you want.

rogerml · « **Reply #4 on:** June 27, 2011, 05:10:41 PM »

Most likely you are informed of the Fujifilm GF670 (120 & 220 film - 6x6cc & 6x7cm). Lens is 80mm, (135film > 40mm @ 6x6. 44mm @ 6.7. Nor easy to find around the world, - bhfhotovideo lucky to have them in stock (only 'silver', though, not black). Voigtlaender (made by Fujifilm) costs a bit ($500) more, - basically same camera. If I where in NY now, this one would be my first buy! But, I know, double the price you asked advise for. (Not sold in this country, very difficult to find even in HongKong, - Taiwan advertises them on eBay for betw. $2,300 & $3,800 !

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/678957-REG/Fujifilm_16019089_GF670_Rangefinder_Folding_Camera.html

Recommend a good Medium Format Rangefinder camera?