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PAAAAAAAAX! thefamilyman
Got me a Pax M4 Rangefinder today.
My friend gave it to me and said i can keep it. the shutter was sticking on 1/50th and below, so i opened it up and saw the original grease was caked up like wax so cleaned it out and re-oiled it. seem to work well.
i also removed all the optics and gave them a good cleaning and is all crystal clear now ^_^
I'm just running my first roll of T-Max 100 through it right now, will be interesting to see how it performs.
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>> Bridget !IRcQER6/v6
Can someone explain to me what a range finder Camera is?
>> thefamilyman
i'm too lazy to type an explanation myself, so i direct you to here:
http://www.photozone.de/3Technology/camtec2.htm
>> ac
Fake Leica is faaaake.

So does it actually have an M-mount lens, or is that just a clever marketing ploy? I'm too lazy to google.
>> thefamilyman
>>49482
errr
best to do your research buddy, just because its a rangefinder doesn't mean its a rip off of a Leica.

Pax was quite a good brand back in the 1950's and 1960's.
manufactured by Yamato Koki Kogyo K.K.

Yamato K?ki K?gy? K.K. (???????) is a Japanese company that was active as a camera maker at least from the end of the 1940s to the beginning of the 1960s. It was founded in 1926 as Kikuchi Seisakusho (?????) by Kikuchi Rikichi, and took its present name in 1944.

The company still exists (2007) and currently makes microtomes (medical research instruments). [taken from camerapedia.org]
>> ac
>>49495
No, but a rangefinder with the model "M4" and the logo in a little red circle on the front?

This may be a great camera in its own right, but it's clearly trying desperately to make people think it's a Leica.
>> thefamilyman
>>49496
as you please
>> ac
>>49498
Google search of '"pax m4" leica" returns, all on page one:
>Hello, it certainly looks like a Leica copy as such like a Shanghai or Fed
>I also have an old Leica RF copy, a Pax M4, which is very small and quite sharp too.
>PAX. M4. une petite copie de Leica.
(That's "a little Leica copy" for you non-Francophones)
>Ce Yamamoto Pax M4 ressemble fortement à un Leica M3
("This Yamamoto Pax M4 strongly resembles a Leica M3")

I'm not saying anything bad about the camera, I'm just saying that it's clearly a Leica knockoff.
>> haroO
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>> ac
>>49519
(In b4 no-matter-who-wins-I'm-still-retarded)
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
If it has an M mount or even a screwmount, that'd be cool.
>> Anonymous
Just because it's a Leica copy doesn't mean it's bad, either. Canon and Nikon both got their start blatantly copying not only German camera bodies (Leica and Contax respectively), but also lens formulas. It's been done forever, and the Canons/Nikons are sometimes arguably better than their contemporary German competitors. It took Leica a couple years to catch up to the Nikon SP, for example, and by then Contax was pretty much toast.

Hell, what company didn't start with Leica copy screwmount RFs? Minolta did too, and I think Pentax might've.

Also, there aren't many non-Leica M mount cameras - there's the modern Cosina Voightlander Bessa R series, the slightly less modern Konica Hexar RF, the Minolta CLE, and the Shanghai Red Flag somethingorother.