Hexar RF - What a nice paperweight

[Photon42]

Originally Posted by buzzardkid

Untrue. Konica made the III, IIIa and IIIm in 1958 and they were serious competition for the Leica M3 at the time. They had a 1:1 viewfinder!

... but no interchangeable lenses. To my knowledge they did not continue producing new models, apart from the late RF. That's what I meant.

[Mephiloco]

I just sold my M5 and still have a Bessa R and an M2, and somewhere I have a IIIc (left at a crawfish boil about a year ago and haven't gotten around to going to get it). I've been shooting with the M2 even though the R is a much better camera in my opinion.

Despite having an inferior rangefinder patch and being plastic, the Bessa R just works. It's louder, it has a faster shutter, a meter, superior rewind, weighs less, etc but it always works. My Leica's ALWAYS need work. It feels like every month or so the vertical alignment is off on my M2 (not a problem to fix, but a little annoying). There are some other issues that I fix on it but I can safely and reasonably attribute the majority of the problems to age (even though the whole RF assembly and viewfinder were recently replaced by DAG).

In short, I like my M2 despite it not being as reliable as a newer budget camera.

[Pablito]

Originally Posted by Moriturii

[Source Needed]

"Confirmation Bias;
Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias, myside bias or verification bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] As a result, people gather evidence and remember information selectively, and interpret it in a biased way. "

If you want to prove that anything you say has any sort of validity, you should do a survey with users, and sample size should be no less then 5000-10000 "signatures" for good or bad. Good luck.

You must be right, I just went to the School of Hard Knocks.