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I've got some old soviet and former GDR stuff as well. They made a lot of great stuff, especially considering how cheap they are now. FED and Zorki rangefinders. The collapsible lens is handy for making them fit in a coat pocket.   Having no mirror means they were able to do some wacky lens designs with the lens extending into the body, like this Jupiter 12. It's a copy of the pre-ww2 Zeiss Biogon.   Horizont. It has the lens mounted on a rotating turret, with curved film plane behind it. Similar to a Widelux, but about 1/5 as expensive. The pics are around twice as wide as normal 35mm. The viewfinder has an integrated bubble level.    Here's some East German stuff. A Praktica FX with a waist-level finder and its medium format big brother the Pentacon Six (formerly called the Praktisix).    
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Yeah, its really well built. I got a kiev-60 prism and adapter to use but it makes the weight even worse. I prefer the WLF for carrying it around. I had the spacing issue on my first roll cause I didn't follow the instructions on loading it properly. Since then I've tensioned it to where the sprocket makes little holes in the rebate and so far it hasn't happened again.
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