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Replacement for the Bessa R- Presenting the Bessa R2
The Bessa R has been sold, after all of four weeks! It was just too plastic feeling and for someone who is used to old hefty rangefinders (Oly SP, Zorki, etc) it just didn't feel right. Mr Philip on flickr kindly sold me his R2 as a replacement.
The Bessa R2 is so much more 'solid'- more heft due to the metal top and bottom plates this time, as well as brass fixtures for the shutter dial and others. It is a M mount though, so I will have to wait for the M -> LTM adapter to arrive before I can shoot a test roll. Is this my first tentative step into the world of M glass? Hmm...
Looks nice in the brown Voigtlander case doesn't it? :)
Replacement for the Bessa R- Presenting the Bessa R2
The Bessa R has been sold, after all of four weeks! It was just too plastic feeling and for someone who is used to old hefty rangefinders (Oly SP, Zorki, etc) it just didn't feel right. Mr Philip on flickr kindly sold me his R2 as a replacement.
The Bessa R2 is so much more 'solid'- more heft due to the metal top and bottom plates this time, as well as brass fixtures for the shutter dial and others. It is a M mount though, so I will have to wait for the M -> LTM adapter to arrive before I can shoot a test roll. Is this my first tentative step into the world of M glass? Hmm...
Looks nice in the brown Voigtlander case doesn't it? :)