I Shoot With Rangefinders

I Shoot With Rangefinders

  • Shoot rangefinders nearly exclusively

    Votes: 203 31.7%

  • Shoot with rangefinders along with other kinds of cameras

    Votes: 398 62.2%

  • Only use rangefinders occasionally

    Votes: 29 4.5%

  • Never use 'em

    Votes: 10 1.6%
  • Total voters
    640
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varjag

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With all recent mudslinging to Leica and increasingly low regard of rangefinder cameras here in general, I wonder how many actual rangefinder shooters we have. They used to be core audience here, but now it seems the forum has been overrun by influx of hipsters with mirrorless digital or SLR shooters.

So let's see where we stand :)
 
I use old Leica's quite frequently, but there again, I use almost any camera that I can lay my hands and that's why I've never mastered any.


varjag said:
With all recent mudslinging to Leica and increasingly low regard of rangefinder cameras here in general.
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I think a rationally priced digital RF would shift that balance back toward RF's. I think it's the worsening problem with dealing with film that is shifting people toward other cameras, not a loss of love for RF's.
 
Pickett Wilson said:
I think a rationally priced digital RF would shift that balance back toward RF's. I think it's the worsening problem with dealing with film that is shifting people toward other cameras, not a loss of love for RF's.
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Yes, but who cares? And hey, according to the poll so far it ain't as bad as I expected. Maybe minority users are just particularly prolific :)
 
My 2 M's go most places with me. Occasionally, I take the Rolleicord out for a walk, and seeing sheets of 6x6 contacts has really grown on me, so see myself shooting more with the Hasselblad too. I wish the Mamiya 6 were not so expensive (or else fully mechanical for the price), but as I would prefer not to buy any more cameras, I shall stick with what I have for now.
 
I use the M5 and G1 mostly.... K20d sits waiting for the call :p

But, Film costs at times forces me to put the M5 down for s spell :bang:
 
I grew up after SLRs became prevalent, I hadn't actually seen a rangefinder until earlier this year. Heck, I hadn't even considered medium format photography.

These days I almost always have a rangefinder with me, perhaps a TLR or medium format folder. I love using these cameras.
 
I totally buy into the whole rangefinder mindset. I've been trying (and trying and trying) to use RF cameras since 1969, but the truth is that no matter how much I love the idea of shooting with rangefinders, I just can't focus them in any reasonable amount of time. I can manually focus an SLR much more quickly and even more accurately than I can a rangefinder.

In my heart I am a globe-trotting, Leica-toting, black & white documenterian of the human condition. (I think it has to do with coming of age in the 50s and 60s.)

In reality I am a DSLR, autofocus, zoom lens, color photographer who takes whatever work he can get to keep the pot boiling. ces't la vie.:bang:
 
I only use rangefinders, any other cameras I own are in 'storage'.

I own 3 rangefinders ... none of them is a Leica.
 
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I use all kinds of film cameras. (RF, SLR, TLR, 35mm, med. format, and 4x5 -for when I have more time) My Leica RF's are special though. For some reason I enjoy shooting them most.
 
Only other camera I have is a little digital compact (Canon S90). Rest is rangefinder analog and digital. I am curious about the x100, but actually very happy with what I have. No real GAS except for the unobtainable (for me) new summilux 35.
 
Never owned a rangefinder before discovering this place.
It's been a great trip since then and now I find I'm using a rangefinder for at least half of everything I do.
 
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