Originally Posted by
ShannonM
No worries as to the 1st... this isn't my first film camera (tm?), and it's actually digital, (above the point-n-shoot level, anyway,) that doesn't interest me much, at least on the camera side.
That's good to know about rangefinders, though. I'd have thought that the rangefinder design would be the less complex... it just seems that way, plus it's the older technology. I got that wrong, it seems.
--Shannon
Don't mean to put you off all rangefinders, it's interchangeable lens systems that are complex and often need adjustment. Fixed-lens are simpler and can be more robust. There are lots, given the SLR didn't shove them aside until the '60s.