This is the first picture taken this decade with my Revue 400SE. I have found it earlier this year, in my parents' attic, and it required a CLA due to a stuck aperture. It got the rangefinder perfectly aligned for infinity, which surprisingly gave it definite back focus at 2m.
Revue 400SE is an interesting camera. Basically a rebranding of Minolta Hi-Matic 7sII, with a couple differences. First, it is black, which would make it quite a bit more pricey. Second, it doesn't read Minolta, which could balance that out. Third, it has the flash-o-matic invention on deck. When not on auto, the aperture ring is marked with the flash guide number and the actual aperture is bound to the focus distance. This means that you can get correct exposure with the simplest flash units. I would never use those, especially without bouncing, meaning this camera got constrained to shutter priority giving me nothing useful in return. But it is still a nice small rangefinder with a good lens, which I bought back in the day for what shooting a roll of Portra costs me now.
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This is the first picture taken this decade with my Revue 400SE. I have found it earlier this year, in my parents' attic, and it required a CLA due to a stuck aperture. It got the rangefinder perfectly aligned for infinity, which surprisingly gave it definite back focus at 2m.
Revue 400SE is an interesting camera. Basically a rebranding of Minolta Hi-Matic 7sII, with a couple differences. First, it is black, which would make it quite a bit more pricey. Second, it doesn't read Minolta, which could balance that out. Third, it has the flash-o-matic invention on deck. When not on auto, the aperture ring is marked with the flash guide number and the actual aperture is bound to the focus distance. This means that you can get correct exposure with the simplest flash units. I would never use those, especially without bouncing, meaning this camera got constrained to shutter priority giving me nothing useful in return. But it is still a nice small rangefinder with a good lens, which I bought back in the day for what shooting a roll of Portra costs me now.