Anyone remember Rangefinders?

[dr_zero]

My first 35mm camera was a Minolta Hi-Matic with split focus was a heck of a neat camera way back when.

 

[Geoff_M]

The first 35mm camera my Dad got me when I was a kid was a Minolta RF. It's gone today, but I do have a nice Nikon S1 RF!

 

[Groucho]

0bli0 still shoots with rangefinders regularly, I believe.

I have a couple but one (Yashica) is busted (shutter stays open) and another ('50s Kodak) is a real cheapie with a puny viewfinder, but I did run a roll of film through it last year and got decent results for what it was.

I did run into a woman shooting with an Epson RD-1 (digital rangefinder) at a garage sale recently... very cool!

 

[Gdad]

I started with an Argus C4- now that I am shooting some film again I have been tempted to give it a whirl.

 

[Abby's Dad]

Argus C-3. I enjoyed using a rangefinder, and if Leicas weren't so ridiculously expensive, might consider it again - but not likely in this lifetime.

 

[DebºoºS]

Wow, I had an Olympus 35 RC. It was beautiful with great glass Zuiko lens. It traveled all over the world managed to function through sand, heat, and cold. It even went to Woodstock Never broke down.
I gave it to a family member when I got my first Nikon 35mm. DH still has his Petri

 

[dr_zero]

I need to go find mine and go take some pics with it.

 

[boBQuincy]

I really liked rangefinder cameras, if I had lots of $$$ I would buy the Leica digital. Even if it is not really a rangefinder it looks and acts like one. But first they have to fix the IR sensitivity issue (and I have to come up with the $$$).