>>4460459That's a Canon 7s, I gave up on Soviet rangefinders. It's not salt, Leica M cameras are fuckin dope. The Canon 7 does the same thing and costs about 300 bucks and you don't need to spend out the ass for M-mount glass. It's got a huge bright VF that is on par with the M3 and I can change framelines for 35, 50 85/100 and 135 and it's parallax-correcting too. You can get away with 28 if you count the very edge of the VF. The meter on mine is also dead-nuts calibrated and works very well.
Soviet lenses are good though, as long as you find a good copy made during the Khruschev years. I will admit, with what I spent finding a good copy of each loens I probably could have just bought an M3 and been done with it. I went through 3 85/2's to find a good one and I still had to open it up to make it perfect. Most of the rare stuff I got from Fedka and that was where I found my good 85.
Most of the time they just need grease which isn't hard. I have a Leica IIIb system too with a full set of Leitz lenses, I went with the 7s because I could keep my fully-sorted KMZ set with lenses from 20 to 135 and just put a better camera body behind them. The IIIb is nice too and with the 35 and 50 I can fit it in my pocket.
Besides, why spend the money for a Leica when these exist, which are German, and have *very good* Schenider and Rodenstock lenses.
