Looking for compact option and only one lens!

[babouphoto]

Plaubel Makina 67 would be a good choice. Great camera and you could buy one in Tokyo.

Otherwise, the obvious choice would be a Rolleiflex!

[jamesevidon]

If compact and a really good single lens is your requirement, try looking for a Zeiss Super Ikonta B or BX. It is a 6x6 folder with a Synchro Compur shutter and a f/2.8 or f/3.5 Zeiss Opton Tessar Lens. Look for a post war issue with a coated lens made by Zeiss in Stuttgart and not from Zeiss Jena in Soviet occupied E. Germany. Super Ikontas are built like a tank and fit in a coat pocket when folded. If you can get one that was recently CLA'd, all the better. It should cost you less than $500 for one that is E+ and if you decide to sell it you'll get all your money back.

 

P.S. The suggestion of a Makina 67 is a very good one, but it will cost you three or four times the cost of the Zeiss.

It is also quite large and heavy. I have one and it is really the best 120 camera with a fixed f/2.8 Nikkor lens and the images will blow you away. But you wanted a compact camera and the Plaubel Makina 67 isn't it. Neither is the Rollei TLR.

Edited December 22, 2019 by jamesevidon