Yes, good start but would love to see it with a rangefinder patch!
They are working another camera as well, a TTL, that seems to be further along in development. This little m-mount one appears to just be a zone-focus camera and who knows if it'll make it past the prototype stage. It wouldn't be surprising if a few companies are working on M-mount film cameras, though.
+1. Especially since film M camera prices went through the roof since a while! Certainly makes them an attractive target to copy them with slight modifications from the original. It is currently an open market niche - screw-mount LTM cameras likely not worth to copy since already many cheaper Russian camera copies exist like FED and Zorki for example.
A new film M mount camera would be much more useful than an LTM, as it can also use LTM lenses whereas an LTM camera cannot also use M lenses.
I’ve owned Zorkis, Feds and Kievs and the reason for their existence is because you cannot afford a Japanese or German LTM. Yeah you can make nice pics with them, but that is more in spite of the camera, rather than because of. What redeems them are the lenses. I got rid of them after the novelty factor of trying them out wore off.
Reason for their existence is simply a different in history: Russia vs. Germany in the 40s . I have FED3, and it is definitely not a bad camera at all. The rangefinder is not on par in quality compared to my Leica IIIc, but good enough.
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. I have FED3, and it is definitely not a bad camera at all. The rangefinder is not on par in quality compared to my Leica IIIc, but good enough.