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Selling one of my Fujica G690 Rangefinder camera. When I bought my first G690 many years ago, I backed it up with a 'spare' so that I could carry two bodies with different lenses. Nowadays, I don't need two so I'm selling this one with 100mm f3.5 and 65mm f5.6 lenses (Fuji also made a cheaper 65mm f8 lens but the f5.6 is far superior). These cameras were built like tanks. This one is in good working order with paint wear but no damage. Both lenses are leaf shutter so can be synced with flash at all speeds. The shutter speed and aperture rings rotate either separately or together so that once you determine exposure, you can rotate both together and decrease shutter speed while closing the aperture or increase shutter speed and open the aperture in one go while keeping the same overall exposure. These cameras will use either 120 or 220 film by flipping the internal film plane before loading the film and switching a dial on top between 120/220. They CAN take double exposures by selecting S on the single shot / roll film selector switch after the 1st exposure, wind on to set the shutter then return the switch to R and shoot the 2nd image. The viewfinder is super bright and the rangefinder is deadly accurate. Inside the viewfinder there are guides for 100mm and 150mm lenses that move with focus. For 65mm, there is an external viewfinder available but you don't need it. Just use the whole viewfinder area and you will get what you see. On the bottom of the camera is a dial that draws a curtain across the film plane so you can change lenses between shots on the same roll without exposing the film. Mine can be slow to return sometimes and I give the camera a little bang against my hand to help that curtain fully retract; Once you know; it's really no problem. Lenses are great: no mould, no scratches, no delamination. The 65mm has a barely visible rubbing mark that doesn't affect images. All photos were shot with my G690's and lenses. https://www.dantestella.com/technical/g690bl.html