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[Nitor]

Vintage...Dictionary says of rare and unrepeatable quality Which One ? Well it must fit your hand like a glove, without taking your eye from the viewfinder you should be able to see, exposure under/over, shutter speed, aperture, and preview dept

[Petercat]

Miranda Sensorex.  Rugged, reliable, easy to work on, interchangeable prisms, excellent lenses, very quiet and you won't be carrying a Nikon or Canon like all the other nostalgia freaks.  Plus, it has that super-neato Lincoln Continental gri

[Verduzcor]

Hi, here imho any of the next are a vintage classic:
Nikon F, F2, S, Canon 7, F-1,n, N (all), Leica IIIf (or g), Contaflex super, Retina II or III, Vitto, all old Rollei.  None expensive.
 
Good time.

[Gez]

IMHO one of the great 70's useable classics has got to be Konica Autoreflex T3. Good solid construction, shutter priority AE provided by an ingenious mechanical system, and uses cheap button cells, no expensive 6V batteries to worry about. The onl

[Chiccolini]

Well, Olly, you didn't say SLR or RF. I get the impression the older the better or more classic funky looking the better is what you are intending.  
 
Ok, for SLR that would limit you to the Exakta or Praktica. The oldest usable Praktica woul

[Ismaelg]

How about a Pentax SV?  I have one and I consider it photographic jewelry.  
 
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[Bill_alexander]

My Choice Would be the Nikon F or Photomic as I  
have owned and used both..But alas They slipped
thru my fingers when I switched to 120..Now I use
the Pentax K 1000 with with all the lenses and
extra bodies,if the Nikons are Cadillacs of the

[Jecicapapa]

My favorite 'fixed lens' 35mm rangefinder from the 50's is the Konica III series; great optics, high build quality, still repairable.

[Estudleon]

My dream cam is the Alpa 10D with the kern macro switar 1,9/50.

[Magkelly]

Pentax SP2, preferably all black, but I'm flexible on that. I have an SP1 and love it, but I'd really love to upgrade to a Spottie with a hot shoe at some point.

[Mareklew]

A good copy of... Zorki (e.g. 4).
Before you eat me: it's a structurally simple rangefinder with removable back (!), easily adjustable with simple tools (!), has no half-mirror that can get desilvered with age (uses beamsplitter prism) (!) and ta

[Edward8]

It might be helpful to define terms.
 
In Australia and the UK, an item is an antique if it is 100 years old.

[Draganflame]

i crazy about Nikon d90 bundle
 !
but i know that it isn't vintage

[Norman]

MPP Mk.7
There is nothing more that I need to say.

[Norman]

Oh sorry, I didn't read the first post properly. 35mm? Nikon F of course.