Is there a Japanese equivalent of RFF?

[Hamster]

Is there a Japanese equivalent of RFF? I am curious what photos they have up in their gallery and see how cultural difference draw different images.

 

[Finder]

Here is the Japanese for ”rangefinder”:

レンジフィンダー

That is if the site and your OS can display foreign scripts. Here is ”forum”:

フォルム

Have fun on your search.

 

[Finder]

Here is a blog:

http://fc2hatabou.blog36.fc2.com/blog-entry-480.html

 

[coelacanth]

Finder, good job, but here is some correction.

Rangefinder is レンジファインダー

Forum is フォーラム

I'm curious if there is a Japanese equivalent of RFF myself.

 

[jonmanjiro]

Here is the Japanese for ”rangefinder”:

レンジフィンダー

That is if the site and your OS can display foreign scripts. Here is ”forum”:

フォルム

Have fun on your search.

Search will probably be more successful using レンジファインダー（or 連動距離計) and フォーラム

But even then probably not so successful, because AFAIK there isn't an equivalent of RFF in Japan.

A lot of Japanese photographers use flickr, so the best bet is probably to take a look there.

If you expand the scope to include all of Asial, I know there are forums similar to RFF in Taiwan, Korea, China, Singapore etc.

 

[Finder]

Finder, good job, but here is some correction.

Rangefinder is レンジファインダー

Forum is フォーラム

I'm curious if there is a Japanese equivalent of RFF myself.

惜しい．

Katakana is not the easiest even though it is supposed be phonetic. I always had fun when our Japanese technical writers were discussing if the vowels where long or short. ファインダ　ファインダー

But I stand corrected.

 

[Finder]

Maybe we could start a Japanese rangefinder section of RFF.

 

[maddoc]

I am not aware of any Japanese RFF forum either, photographer here usually communicate via their blog. But - as Jon mentioned - lots of photos on flickr !

 

[coelacanth]

Hehe Finder, I know what you mean. It's super tricky. That's true about the handling of word-end "ー" in Katakana (typically adapted words from foreign languages). Typically, especially in recent years, not using the "ー" is becoming more common, especially for technical terms. I had to deal with this a lot when I was designing Expedia website for Japanese market.

For "rangefinder" specifically, you should stick with レンジファインダー.

OK, getting back to the topic. As jonmanjiro mentioned, I have little hope of finding "Japanese RFF." The culture of online discussion forum in Japan is a bit different from the US or many of European countries. I'd try Flickr first as well. "2ch" is the huge discussion board portal so to speak, but it's a bit too deep in many ways. I believe there are many rangefinder camera specific threads/forums in there, but I doubt you'll find anything like RFF there.

 

[jonmanjiro]

For "rangefinder" specifically, you should stick with レンジファインダー.

Very true Searching 連動距離計 will only yield techical (for the most part) descriptions of rangefinder cameras (and rangefinders in general). Certainly no galleries

 

[jonmanjiro]

Maybe we could start a Japanese rangefinder section of RFF.

We have one, but not much happens there ...

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