3 excellent automatic rangefinders

Below are some excellent fully automatic rangefinders I am using, they take sharp pictures and with a max aperture of f2.8 they give a nice out of focus background.

I also have other rangefinders but they are manual or semi automatic (like the Yashica Electro, the Kiev 4, Fed etc.)

These three are fully automatic and the user cannot change the exposure settings.

The Canonet 28 (Top right - The Canonet 17 top left is a manual/automatic camera)

Takes very good pictures, and can be switched off. It is bigger from the rest cameras and locks the shutter if exposure is under 1/30-f2.8. There is only the shutter speed indication in the viewfinder.

 
The Minolta Hi-matic F (Bottom left)

Small and fully automatic, takes excellent pictures. There is no indication of exposure in the viewfinder. Only the battery check led lights up if the light is not adequate.

 

The Chinon 35 EE (Bottom right)

Takes very good pictures, it is black, small and has shutter/aperture indication in the viewfinder. If the light is not enough the shutter does not lock and you can still take the picture. The lightmeter can only switched off with the lens cap, there is no On/Off switch. The shutter button does not lock either, so it is easy to accidentaly take a picture in your pocket!

More from the Canonet 28

Some more pictures taken with this fine classy camera

At the street

 At the shipyard

 At the beach

Canonet 28, a very good rangefinder camera.

This is a high quality rangefinder from Canon from the 70s. It has the 40mm/f2.8 lens, thus its slower than the top of the range Canonet 17.It is an automatic camera that chooses aperture and shutter speed by itself. The only manual settings are the 1/30th sec speed for flash and the aperture settings from f2.8 to f22.
Focussing is done by turning the lens and combining the two images in the viewfinder into one. In the viewfinder there is only an indicator for the shutter speed selected by the camera but not of the aperture.
This is a full automatic camera that does not allow for full control from the user. If shutter speed needs to be longer than 1/30th sec the shutter locks and cannot take the picture. The only alternative is to change the ASA sensitivity selector and underexpose the picture.
With the help of some aluminum foil I managed to put two 1,4V battery cells for hearing aids, their voltage is close to the 1,3V of the original and discontinued mercury cells. 

To my surprise the camera delivered excellent pictures.
Here are some results

Some candids

At the beach

At the streets