[Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

I don't know much about RF and even less on folders, but so far 
almost every post on the web mentioning this camera says 
"rangefinder." Perhaps it's someone's wishful thinking that got 
copied everywhere :-) I can't find anything official from Fuji on either way.

At 11:22 PM 2/1/2008, G Hopkinson wrote:
>Richard, I hadn't looked closely enough. It is a rangefinder! I see 
>no possible way this could be linked to the (tabbed) focus ring
>with a folding bellows in between. The old originals of course were 
>just focussed by guess applied to the focus ring distance scale
>manually. Perhaps there is a rangefinder adjustment at the rear, 
>where we can't see?? Then that reading could be manually
>transferred to the distance scale on the lens barrel.
>..

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