35mm rangefinder suggestions?

[Joshua_Putnam <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While shooting today, the shutter on my trusty old Olympus 35-S
rangefinder jammed.  I hope to get it repaired at a reasonable
price, but failing that, can anyone suggest other similar old
all-mechanical, metal-bodied 35mm rangefinder cameras, with
moderately wide lenses, with IR focusing marks, that aren't
priced as collector's items instead of useable cameras?  This
35-S has spent years riding in the handlebar bag of my bicycle,
recently with a no.87 gel behind the lens, and if I can't get it
fixed, I definitely want something similar to replace it.

On the topic of IR -- this is the only dimpled-pressure plate
camera that I've used whose dimples made the characteristic
pattern of dots on Konica 750 as well as on HIE.  I had always
thought the dimples only affected HIE because of its lack of an
anti-halation layer, but I guess not.  I haven't had this problem
with the dimpled pressure plate of my OM-1 or OM-2 with either
HIE or Konica 750, but the dimples on the 35-S are shaped
differently than on my more recent Olympus cameras.  Black
backing paper fixed it, so it's not a problem, just an observation.

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 Josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx  is  Joshua Putnam / P.O. Box 13220 / Burton, WA 98013
                       "My other bike is a car."                   
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