d_ross
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]and is the new rangefinder actually the digital point and shoot? Imagine what the great rangefinder users of the past would have done with modern digital point and shoot camera's? Some modern masters do now!
As far as I'm concerned the main benefit of the rangefinder, when used for it’s ideal purpose, is the ability to see what's going on outside the frame, to help us anticipate what may happen while the camera is up to your face, where it needs to be to take good photographs. But lets face it a point and shoot held at half arms length offers this in abundance. Modern point and shoot camera’s like my Sigma DP2 offer fast accurate focussing, including manual focus, a decent size sensor to give a look similar to full frame camera’s, and a quick enough shutter response, everything you could want really, and they deliver very good image quality! All this for a fraction of the cost of a Leica rangefinder, or any other digital rangefinder for that matter. Add to this that you look just like every other person walking around like a robot with camera at arms length, therefore blend in perfectly. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]
One of the reasons I say this is that I have seen a lot of Fuji X100 users photographing this way and wondered is this is because it's actually a better way to work?
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As far as I'm concerned the main benefit of the rangefinder, when used for it’s ideal purpose, is the ability to see what's going on outside the frame, to help us anticipate what may happen while the camera is up to your face, where it needs to be to take good photographs. But lets face it a point and shoot held at half arms length offers this in abundance. Modern point and shoot camera’s like my Sigma DP2 offer fast accurate focussing, including manual focus, a decent size sensor to give a look similar to full frame camera’s, and a quick enough shutter response, everything you could want really, and they deliver very good image quality! All this for a fraction of the cost of a Leica rangefinder, or any other digital rangefinder for that matter. Add to this that you look just like every other person walking around like a robot with camera at arms length, therefore blend in perfectly. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]
One of the reasons I say this is that I have seen a lot of Fuji X100 users photographing this way and wondered is this is because it's actually a better way to work?
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