Which film rangefinder?

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As a digital photographer I'm more careless with my exposures since u can chimp and delete as u wish.

 

You shouldn't, though, at least not until real time HDR becomes a reality. Usually the dynamic range is limited to 8 bits per channel, and it is frightfully easy to over- or underexpose a digital photo.

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You shouldn't, though, at least not until real time HDR becomes a reality. Usually the dynamic range is limited to 8 bits per channel, and it is frightfully easy to over- or underexpose a digital photo.

 

The Fuji S5 I have is probably still on par with the best out there in terms of DR so its spoiled me to a certain extent but I digress. This discussion is about film and that's where I'd need to be discipline. I know I can just not check the LCD now but it's a bad habit as long as it's there. I'll be shooting plenty of rolls to get the hang of a rf and hopefully I'll learn to read light better too

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I hugely enjoy the Olympus 35 SP. It's a great camera with a great 42mm f1.7 lens (quite soft wide open though).

 

The viewfinder is very good, a light meter is built in and can also be used in manual mode (LV/EV reading), which is really cool, and it's got a full exposure automatic mode, which I find very useful sometimes.

 

It is not too expensive to get one on ebay, between 20 and 200 euros, depending on the condition (and, correspondingly, your skill to restore/clean the camera). Lots of information found on the web...

 

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