Apples chief designer shoots rangefinders

[brainwood]

This story has appeared on the BBC website and reveals Apples chief designer Jonathan Ive - the man responsible for the iphone and ipad- has an interest in 'Old' Rangefinder cameras..

check out the story here

Not world stopping news .. just some RFF trivia



Chris

 

[btgc]

I hoped he will say it's Yashica or Konica 🙂

 

[brainwood]

my moneys on a FED or Zorki...

 

[HoodedOne]

I want a apple digital rangfinder 😀

 

[swoop]

I want a apple digital rangfinder 😀

The quicktake 200?

 

[HoodedOne]

The quicktake 200?

I said "RANGEFINDER", not a P&S.

 

[gb hill]

no wonder those Holga type apps for the i phone look so realistic!🙂

 

[macmx]

So perhaps the iPhone 4 IS like a Leica camera.

 

[Alpacaman]

The way he talks about the paint sounds pretty Leica-ish to me.

 

[Renzsu]

M8.2 is my guess..

 

[pakeha]

Apples chief designer shoots rangefinders

what calibre do you think he uses? 😉
regards
CW

 

[ruby.monkey]

my moneys on a FED or Zorki...

That would explain the iPhone 4's reliable reception.

 

[Alpacaman]

That would explain the iPhone 4's reliable reception.

My iPhone never works on bulb mode 🙁

 

[semilog]

That would explain the iPhone 4's reliable reception.

Consumer Reports says it's merely typical of current smartphones. In other words, the problem is largely hype. (And before you accuse me of being a partisan, I'll just point out that I use a Nokia. I'd never buy into an AT&T contract.)

 

[RichL]

For those of you that do the twitter thing you could simply contact Joel and ask him which camera he was using.

follow @joelmoors or follow @BBCJoel

 

[sig]

I guess Apple is considered to produce cool products.... and since the designer uses a rangefinder camera rangefinder cameras are cool too?

My rangefinder is Apple approved. I am glad.

 

[Spleenrippa]

Oh no, someone connected with Apple admits to using rangefinders... Good thing that type of camera is more complex than a Holga, or I'd be afraid of the Apple fanboi/hipster crowd driving RF prices up.

 

[amateriat]

What I found most fascinating is the scuttlebutt regarding his being groomed to eventually take the baton from Jobs. Time will tell, but it makes more than a little sense to me.

And, the RF connection? That, too, makes sense to me, and not because Macs, like RFs, are a "niche" product (although the the more-rabid among the Wintel technoscenti might waste a bit of time postulating such). Leica, IMO, would do well to cultivate this bit of cross-fertilization.


- Barrett

 

[HoodedOne]

What about this cross-pollination.
Design: Apple
Electronics: Leica
Made in China

 

[rxmd]

Consumer Reports says it's merely typical of current smartphones.

I guess what's not typical is the CEO's way of acknowledging the problem by telling everybody to hold their phones differently...

The Leica equivalent would be being told to shoot only subjects with vertical lines to make the M8's vertical line problem less obvious.