I've taken the vast majority of my photos with my Minolta Hi-Matic 7S II. It's just the perfect camera for me. I mostly shoot rangefinders, and mostly wide: I love the 40mm f1.7 lens it comes with. You can't change the lens on it, but it just feels like having a rangefinder with a 40 or 50mm lens on. It's great in low light (with black and white). It's tiny and looks like a toy camera.
It's a great camera and it costs less than.. the lens, on many other cameras I've got.
The 7S is almost double the size. The 7S II is what I have, and love. Minolta cameras are really good value.
I have a Leica, but if I didn't I would have just this camera and / or maybe a Minolta CLE with the 40mm f2. The tiny profile of the camera is the type of shooting I enjoy the most. I always feel awkward AF when I've got my SLR-style cameras with zoom lenses about, unless I'm pointing it at birds.
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