The day I finished Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, I picked up my Smena M8 (a Soviet rangefinder camera popular behind the iron curtain in the 1970s and 80’s; $20 on eBay today) and took a walk around “another” Brooklyn, where you don’t run into John Turturo or Julian Schnabel at a bagel store, and where you won’t find tall, well-tended women with nose rings pushing $5,000 baby strollers.
My parents has also similar Smena. And just to be technically accurate - it's actually Smena 8M, and it has nothing in common with a rangefinder camera. It's a regular point'n'shoot with just simple tunnel viewfinder, and manual focus without any confirmation whether your subject is in focus or not.
Thanks for your comment, Darek. You are correct. I assumed that a rangefinder was any camera where you can't see directly through the lense. But I should have known that Smena 8M doesn't have the rangefinding mechanism, where two separate images coincide for focusing. It is a funny camera. But it offers great light leaks :)
same as you: i call "rangefinder" anything that doesn't see ttl. technically darek is right. i have 3x35mm + 1 mf cameras that are manual focusing but not rangefinder, it is more like they are using a guestometer but i still call them rangefinders.
My parents has also similar Smena. And just to be technically accurate - it's actually Smena 8M, and it has nothing in common with a rangefinder camera. It's a regular point'n'shoot with just simple tunnel viewfinder, and manual focus without any confirmation whether your subject is in focus or not.
Funny camera :)
Thanks for your comment, Darek. You are correct. I assumed that a rangefinder was any camera where you can't see directly through the lense. But I should have known that Smena 8M doesn't have the rangefinding mechanism, where two separate images coincide for focusing. It is a funny camera. But it offers great light leaks :)
same as you: i call "rangefinder" anything that doesn't see ttl. technically darek is right. i have 3x35mm + 1 mf cameras that are manual focusing but not rangefinder, it is more like they are using a guestometer but i still call them rangefinders.
Good to know all that. Thank you both!
Guestometer :D i love it :D
“The analog camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see with a digital camera” - that's wonderful!
Thank you, Glenn!
Thanks Alex for your mention. Beautiful shots reminding grain still exists
Thanks, George. Grain rules! :)