monochromejrnl
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you're not crazy, just an uncommitted camera 'whore', nothing wrong with it, just embrace it and get yourself a R-D1(s) ... we need more R-D1s up here in the great white north... make sure you resell it to another Canadian when you're done..
kermaier
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i've not received mine yet, but i tried one out in a store and it works just fine. deepwhite from this forum uses one on his R-D1 as well as a few flickr members of well-repute. there are also quite a few people using it happily on their M8s.
you obviously need to be careful when mounting it in the R-D1 (not that i was in the store
), but no damage will occur using it. the only thing that doesn't work is the metering. some reckon it's about -3EV on the M8's and since we don't have -3, well.... as i plan to use it mostly as a hip lens of sort, i'll just guesstimate, chimp (something i rarely do), adjust and leave it to fate. the lens does vignette some, but no where near as much as it does on a FF film camera. the images it produces on the R-D1 are still distinct though.
Gid
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Joe,
I think you'll enjoy it and as others have said, if you don't like it you'll probably be able to recover your money. You only live once, JFDI
I think you'll enjoy it and as others have said, if you don't like it you'll probably be able to recover your money. You only live once, JFDI
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...you're not crazy, just an uncommitted camera 'whore'...
holy crap! i think i'll put that in my sig...or maybe my epitaph!!
the 25 has been sold, i have the 21/35/50 now.
i can either order the 85/4 zm lens and have $$ left over or get an rd1 or get the wide angle zoom for the g1.
i do seem to come back to the rd1 though.
joe
holy crap! i think i'll put that in my sig...or maybe my epitaph!!
the 25 has been sold, i have the 21/35/50 now.
i can either order the 85/4 zm lens and have $$ left over or get an rd1 or get the wide angle zoom for the g1.
i do seem to come back to the rd1 though.
joe
monochromejrnl
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get the R-D1 - I wish I could afford it, Severes-Babylon a local Torontonian has two and I know he won't part with them... the 85/4 is too specilaized a lens especially on a cropped body... to useful except on the odd occasion...
Just do it!
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i just emailed tony for some info re. the camera.
my palms are getting sweaty...
my palms are getting sweaty...
jky
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Good on ya, Joe! It's a fantastic camera that (to me) feels better in the hand than the M8. As many here have mentioned already, go for it...
BTW, I noticed that you had a 25mm lens for sale here recently - that would have been a nice ~38mm fov on that body I think.
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my timing on selling the 25 wasn't too good, i know, but i think the 21 will be good too. (= a 32?)
i'm still waiting to hear back from popflash.
i'm still waiting to hear back from popflash.
MCTuomey
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joe, if the funds come together for you, i'll join the choir and say try the R-D1. i did so myself. ended up selling it, but that's not the point. life with RFs isn't quite as full without trying one.
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mike, i have the cash on hand and pulled the trigger on the rd1 but i have not yet heard back from popflash. they are usually pretty quick but i may have hit them at closing time.
if anything i might sell one of the g1s i have or maybe the r4a and wait for something wide and new for the g1.
if anything i might sell one of the g1s i have or maybe the r4a and wait for something wide and new for the g1.
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it is done.
i need to go lie down now...
joe
i need to go lie down now...
joe
Sam N
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You'll love it. It's such a fun camera to use.
Benjamin Marks
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Joe:
I had an RD-1 and liked it; it gave a very film-like response. There are some limitations that you should be aware of though:
1) short rf base-length (spotty accuracy with fast glass (50/1, 75/1.4, 90/2))
2) Noisy ISO 1600
3) Bessa-style build quality/mechanical durability
4) RF accuracy harder to user-adjust than M8
5) small LCD, by today's standards
6) 1.5 crop factor
I had lots of "keepers" from mine, but traded in/up to an M8. IQ on low ISO's is better for my purposes on the M8, but at the sizes I print not that much of an issue.
Ben Marks
I had an RD-1 and liked it; it gave a very film-like response. There are some limitations that you should be aware of though:
1) short rf base-length (spotty accuracy with fast glass (50/1, 75/1.4, 90/2))
2) Noisy ISO 1600
3) Bessa-style build quality/mechanical durability
4) RF accuracy harder to user-adjust than M8
5) small LCD, by today's standards
6) 1.5 crop factor
I had lots of "keepers" from mine, but traded in/up to an M8. IQ on low ISO's is better for my purposes on the M8, but at the sizes I print not that much of an issue.
Ben Marks
Gid
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SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
That is... you ordered it, joe?
The long wait begins...
Congratulations!! It's a fun wait anyway!
The long wait begins...
Congratulations!!
It's a fun wait anyway!
Burkey
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Geezem crowbar. Congratulations!!!
. . . Burkey
. . . Burkey
Steve Litt
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Congratulations.I encouraged you in previous threads to get the RD-1 now you have.
In May mine is 3 years old by the dollar exchange to British pounds I paid about the same new back then.Doesn't look like I will afford the second body just yet!
Regards
Steve
PS. you will need one of Luigi's half cases now
In May mine is 3 years old by the dollar exchange to British pounds I paid about the same new back then.Doesn't look like I will afford the second body just yet!
Regards
Steve
PS. you will need one of Luigi's half cases now
chikne
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Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, time to sell it ......