The Bessa R, this is it, was not quite at the top of my buying priorities. I don't have any valid m39 lenses in my kit, and I'm not particularly interested in a rangefinder. At the same time, however, the price was attractive and the curiosity a lot, so I bought it intending to resell it, but not immediately!

The G series of rangefinder camera lenses created by Carl Zeiss in the 1990s is universally considered one of the best creations of the turn of the century, an absolute swan song for film. However, among so many lenses acclaimed by the public and critics like the 45mm Planar, there has always been a caveat. The 35mm, introduced later for the updated Contax G1 _green label_, was immediately judged too soft and inferior to the rest of the kit.