DavidStone Posted November 25, 2009 Share #1 Posted November 25, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just idle curiosity - is the original Leica II the smallest full-frame 35mm camera with a genuine lens-actuated coincident-image rangefinder? David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bill Posted November 25, 2009 Share #2 Posted November 25, 2009 Just idle curiosity - is the original Leica II the smallest full-frame 35mm camera with a genuine lens-actuated coincident-image rangefinder? David I'd say the Olympus XA would be closer to claiming that crown. Regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted November 25, 2009 Share #3 Posted November 25, 2009 Making a proper search could be long... but I suspect NOT... there are two elements to consider: 1) Interchangeable lens 2) (more important) Focal plane shutter If you add those two requirements to your question can be that Leica II has the record. But think that it is possible that some 35mm FF RF cameras with fixed lens (which activates anyway the RF through lens' focus movement) and central leaf shutter can be smaller than Leica II... one had to make some computations... but width can be surely less, height about the same..depth probably someway bigger if you consider the depth of a Leica II + Elmar retracted; try to get some info about some RF- equipped Voigtlander Vito, or Kodak Retina, or Zeiss Cont... (-ina, - essa ?)... I seem to remember that some RF equipped Japanese 35mm camera were built even into '70s... there was also the ill-fated Voigtlander VF102 (I seem) with RF, interchangable lens... very very compact even if can be it never reached the market in numbers (it was... '75 or '76...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted November 25, 2009 Share #4 Posted November 25, 2009 Bill posted while I was writing... ... yes Oly XA is one of the Japanes I had in mind... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted November 25, 2009 Share #5 Posted November 25, 2009 Mentioned in another thread, the Kodak Retina (interchangeable lens elements) and also the Agfa Ambi Silette with bayonet mount lenses! Both pretty compact, I'd say approx the same size as a llla overall. The XA is probably the smallest in absolute terms. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJP Posted December 1, 2009 Share #6 Posted December 1, 2009 Slightly larger than the XA (Size: 104 x 69 x 56 mm) Agfa Optima 1535 Sensor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia XA (Size: 102×64.5×40mm) Olympus XA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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