It is an excellent street shooter and travel camera: it is not too heavy, its viewfinder is easy to focus with and ergonomically the camera is a delight I often go out shooting with both my M4 and the Bronica, and I would find it difficult to establish a preference between them. I have had a Bronica Rf645 for about 6 months. My experience may be unrepresentative of the RF645 - and I certainly enjoyed using it, despite its focussing inaccuracy - but do conduct your own tests before committing yourself. I know that the latter point contravenes the laws of Physics, but so did many of my students when I taught Physics. This was one of my better decisions - accurate rangefinder and strangely medium-format-like images.
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Mifsuds did the decent thing and gave me a full refund, so I bought a user Leica M2 and 50mm rigid Summicron instead. (Some people liked this - especially women of a certain age) Portraits would have sharp ears and hair, but blurred eyes and face, despite careful alignment of the split image. The UK importers 'repaired' it, but I still had the same problems - evidenced both by discrepancies between measured and rangefinder-indicated distances and by obvious mis-focusing on the B&W prints I was making. The discrepancy was a foot at five feet - too much to be accommodated by depth-of-field at large apertures. The numbers on the lens' distance scale did not correspond with the measured distance when the two rangefinder images coincided. I briefly owned a brand new Bronica RF645 but eventually returned it for a refund after recurrent problems with the rangefinder.