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A rangefinder camera is a camera fitted with a rangefinder, typically a split-image rangefinder: a range-finding focusing mechanism allowing the photographer to measure the subject distance and take photographs that are in sharp focus. [1]

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Argus C3

The Argus C3 was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced from 1939 to 1966 by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

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Autofocus

An autofocus (or AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area.

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Bell & Howell

Bell and Howell is a U.S.-based former manufacturer of motion picture machinery, founded in 1907 by two projectionists, and was originally headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois.

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Bronica

Bronica also Zenza Bronica (in Japanese) was a Japanese manufacturer of classic medium-format roll film cameras and photographic equipment based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Canon 7

The Canon 7 was a rangefinder system camera produced by Canon Inc., the last compatible with the Leica M39 lens mount.

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Canon Inc.

is a Japanese multinational corporation specializing in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, camcorders, photocopiers, steppers, computer printers and medical equipment. It's headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan."." Canon. Retrieved on 13 January 2009. Canon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX index. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman who founded the workshop of Carl Zeiss in 1846 which is still in business today as Carl Zeiss AG.

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Carl Zeiss AG

Carl Zeiss, branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems, industrial measurements and medical devices, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss.

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Coincidence rangefinder

A coincidence rangefinder (stereoscopic, parallax, or split-image rangefinder) is a type of rangefinder that uses mechanical and optical principles to allow an operator to determine the distance to a visible object.

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Contax

Contax began as a camera model in the Zeiss Ikon line in 1932, and later became a brand name.

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Contax G

The Contax G1 and Contax G2 are interchangeable-lens cameras sold by Kyocera under the Contax brand in competition with the Leica M7, Cosina Voigtländer Bessa-R, and Konica Hexar RF.

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Cosina

is a manufacturer of high-end optical glass, optical precision equipment, cameras, video and electronic related equipment, based in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Cosina Voigtländer

Cosina Voigtländer refers to photographic products manufactured by Cosina under the Voigtländer name since 1999.

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David Douglas Duncan

David Douglas Duncan (January 23, 1916 – June 7, 2018) was an American photojournalist who is best known for his dramatic combat photographs.

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Depth of field

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, the optical phenomenon known as depth of field (DOF), is the distance about the Plane of Focus (POF) where objects appear acceptably sharp in an image.

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Digital camera

A digital camera or digicam is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Digital single-lens reflex camera

A digital single-lens reflex camera (also called digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor, as opposed to photographic film.

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Electroacoustic phenomena

Electroacoustic phenomena arise when ultrasound propagates through a fluid containing ions.

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Electronics

Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.

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Epson R-D1

The original R-D1, announced by Epson in March 2004 and discontinued in 2007, was the first digital rangefinder camera.

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FED (camera)

The FED is a Soviet rangefinder camera, mass-produced from 1934 until around 1996, and also the name of the factory that made it.

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Focal-plane shutter

In camera design, a focal-plane shutter (FPS) is a type of photographic shutter that is positioned immediately in front of the focal plane of the camera, that is, right in front of the photographic film or image sensor.

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Focusing screen

A focusing screen is a flat translucent material, either a ground glass or fresnel lens, found in a system camera that allows the user of the camera to preview the framed image in a viewfinder.

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Fujifilm

, trading as Fujifilm (stylized as FUJiFILM), or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational photography and imaging company headquartered in Tokyo.

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Hasselblad

Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras, photographic equipment and image scanners based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Hot shoe

Canon EOS 350D Hot shoe Proprietary hot shoe used by Minolta and older Sony cameras (Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D) A hot shoe is a mounting point on the top of a camera to attach a flash unit and other compatible accessories.

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Ilford

Ilford is a large town in east London, located east of Charing Cross.

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Kiev (brand)

Kiev is a Soviet and Ukrainian brand of photographic equipment including cameras manufactured by the Arsenal Factory in Kiev, Ukraine.

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Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography.

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Kodak 35 Rangefinder

The Kodak 35 Rangefinder is an improved version of the Kodak 35 that was launched by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1938 as their first 35mm camera manufactured in the USA.

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Kodak Ektra

The Kodak Ektra was a 35mm coupled rangefinder camera launched by Kodak USA in 1941.

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Kodak Retina

Retina was the brand-name of a long-running series of German-built Kodak 35mm cameras, produced from 1934 until 1969.

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Konica

was a Japanese manufacturer of, among other products, film, film cameras, camera accessories, photographic and photo-processing equipment, photocopiers, fax machines and laser printers.

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Konica Hexar RF

The Konica Hexar RF is a 35 mm rangefinder camera which was sold by Konica.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Leica Camera

Leica Camera AG is a German company that manufactures cameras, lenses, binoculars, rifle scopes and ophthalmic lenses.

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Leica M (camera)

The Leica M (Typ 240) is a digital full-frame 35 mm rangefinder camera.

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Leica M Monochrom

The Leica M Monochrom is a digital camera in Leica Camera AG's rangefinder M series, and features a monochrome sensor.

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Leica M10

The Leica M10 is a digital camera in Leica Camera AG's rangefinder M series.

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Leica M7

The Leica M7 is a 35 mm rangefinder camera introduced by Leica AG in 2002 as a direct successor to the M6.

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Leica M8

The Leica M8 is the first digital camera in the rangefinder M series introduced by Leica Camera AG on 14 September 2006.

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Leica M9

The Leica M9 is a digital full-frame rangefinder camera.

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Leica Standard

The Leica Standard, Model E was the fourth version of the original 35 mm Leica camera to be launched from Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Macro photography

Macro photography (or photomacrography or macrography, and sometimes macrophotography), is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects and living organisms like insects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size (though macrophotography technically refers to the art of making very large photographs).

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Mamiya

is a Japanese company that manufactures high-end cameras and other related photographic and optical equipment.

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Meopta

Meopta was a Czechoslovak national holding company, producing various optical devices.

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Minolta

was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras, camera accessories, photocopiers, fax machines, and laser printers.

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Musée des Arts et Métiers

The Musée des Arts et Métiers (Museum of Arts and Trades) is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Industry), which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.

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Nikon I, M and S

The Nikon was the first camera introduced by the optical manufacturer Nippon Kogaku KK.

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Nikon S3

The Nikon S3 is a professional level, interchangeable lens, 35 mm film, rangefinder camera introduced in 1958.

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Nikon SP

The Nikon SP is a professional level, interchangeable lens, 35 mm film, rangefinder camera introduced in 1957.

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Normal lens

In photography and cinematography, a normal lens is a lens that reproduces a field of view that appears "natural" to a human observer.

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Olympus Corporation

is a Japanese manufacturer of optics and reprography products.

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Optique & Précision de Levallois

Société Optique et Précision de Levallois, S.A. (OPL) was founded in 1919, although its predecessor dated from 1911.

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Oskar Barnack

Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, November 1, 1879 – Bad Nauheim, January 16, 1936) was an inventor and German photographer who built, in 1913, the first 35 mm camera called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar.

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Parallax

Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Petri Camera

The Camera Company was an optical company and manufacturer of cameras in Japan.

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Rangefinder

A rangefinder is a device that measures distance from the observer to a target, in a process called ranging.

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Rectilinear lens

In photography, a rectilinear lens is a photographic lens that yields images where straight features, such as the walls of buildings, appear with straight lines, as opposed to being curved.

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Ricoh

is a Japanese multinational imaging and electronics company.

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Robot (camera)

Robot is a German imaging company known originally for clockwork cameras, later producing surveillance (Traffipax) and bank security cameras.

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Seiko Epson

(Epson being an abbreviation for "Son of Electronic Printer"), or simply Epson, is a Japanese electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers, and information and imaging related equipment.

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Shutter (photography)

In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period, exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light in order to capture a permanent image of a scene.

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Single-lens reflex camera

A single-lens reflex camera (SLR) is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system (hence "reflex" from the mirror's reflection) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured.

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Steinheil

Steinheil is a surname.

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Street photography

Street photography, also sometimes called candid photography, is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places.

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Viewfinder

In photography, a viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and, in many cases, to focus the picture.

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Voigtländer

Voigtländer was a significant long-established company within the optics and photographic industry, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, and today continues as a trademark for a range of photographic products.

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Yashica

Yashica was a Japanese manufacturer of cameras.

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Zoom lens

A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length (FFL) lens (see prime lens).

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Zorki

Zorki (Зоркий, meaning sharp-sighted) is the name of a series of 35mm rangefinder cameras manufactured in the Soviet Union between 1948 and 1978.

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135 film

135 is photographic film in a film format used for still photography.

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35mm Bessa

The Bessa family of cameras is manufactured in Japan by Cosina as a revival of the Voigtländer brand name.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangefinder_camera

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