The Voigtlander Bessa L is a special camera, it has no finder! No viewfinder, no rangefinder, nothing.
For shooting street photography with wide angle lenses, it's a very good match.
Because depth of field is large when using short focal lenses, you can pre-focus or use the hyperfocal distance to easily shoot without thinking about focus. And no finder means you can shoot from the hip, a very liberating experience. If not, you can pop in an external viewfinder and compose properly.


Voigtlander Bessa L, Black, Scale Focus Camera, , Leica Screw Mount

This beautiful Bessa L is a scale focus Leica Screw mount camera with TTL metering. 

The Bessa L is reminiscent of the classic finderless 1950s Screw mount Leicas.

Introduced in 1999.

you can see a Voigtlander Kontur finder in the accessory shoe. The Kontur finder is very unusual, being opaque except for the frame lines. In use you have to have both eyes open, and the frame lines are seen superimposed on the visible field.