is a canon G10 a rf

if you focus manually is that rangefinding and you get digital ft or meters readout on the back
malcD
 
Technically, any optical focusing mechanism--properly calibrated--is a rangefinder. SLRs can "find range" just the same as an M4. People who get really hung up on overly-specific definitions ("That's not a rangefinder, where's the yellow-tinted second image!?") are generally wrong.
 
Rangefinder is an attitude, its like driving a vintage car to wal-mart, it has nothing to do with photography.

But rangefinder itself is a mechanical device that finds the range, now AF in all camera also finds the focus distance between the subject and lens, so don't waste your time in such matters.
 
ebino said:
Rangefinder is an attitude, its like driving a vintage car to wal-mart, it has nothing to do with photography.

But rangefinder itself is a mechanical device that finds the range, now AF in all camera also finds the focus distance between the subject and lens, so don't waste your time in such matters.
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The difference an 'R' (versus an 'r') makes..
 
In many repects it is like a rangefinder in that it has manual focus ability with a beautiful focusing aid, separate viewfinder for fast composing, manual exposure control and multiple focal lengths via zoom and auxilliary lens attachments. The ways that it's not like a professional rangefinder is: quick preview of focal lengths, near zero lag time in shutter release, lens speed rather slow & too much dof due to inherently short focal length lens, no ultra low light shooting, and composing/critical manual focusing can all be done at once in the viewfinder. Given the tiny sensor size of the G series, I suspect image quality might suffer in some circumstances.
 
Give it to someone who actually knows how to use a camera and its a killer little camera.
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-I petsonally don't use cameras for killing (or rangefinding), but for some people it may even be a rf killer camera.
 
My little Olympus Stylus 3.5 has the same attitude as my FED-2, Konica S III and my Nikon FE2. There is no discernable difference in what I shoot, based on the 35mm camera I use. Now, when I switch to a TLR and 6x6, there is a monumental change in my shooting attitude ...
 
Ok, if any distance metering device, including tape measure, is a "rangefinder", then we just need a new specific word for that classic device with beamsplitter and two windows? Any ideas? "Parallaxometer"?
 
malcD said:
so ar these camrea's that have autofous [ CONTAX G2 and KONICA HEXAR RF ] not realy rangefinders
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You mix up Hexar AF and RF - the former is a point and shoot compact, the latter is not autofocus, but is a M-mount interchangeable lens rangefinder with integrated motor drive.

Some pleople claim the Contax G series to be a rangefinder as it has a AF mechanism which internally uses rangefinding mechanics - but then, most AF film compacts used a similar AF concept, so that is a bad reason.

If you really want to define the G1/G2 (and Hexar AF, and a few luxury AF compacts) to qualify as some odd kind of rangefinder camera, you'd have to extend the definition to include every camera that can do rangefinding (distance metering) independent of its AF. Which compacts generally cannot do - at the very best they have some modes that disable the entire distance metering and convert the camera to fixed or scale focus.
 
Forget G10, its already outdated, we'll have to wait for Fuji X100 and how it turns out... That is the camera which makes no apology what its aiming at.
 
sevo said:
You mix up Hexar AF and RF - the former is a point and shoot compact, the latter is not autofocus, but is a M-mount interchangeable lens rangefinder with integrated motor drive.

Some pleople claim the Contax G series to be a rangefinder as it has a AF mechanism which internally uses rangefinding mechanics - but then, most AF film compacts used a similar AF concept, so that is a bad reason.

If you really want to define the G1/G2 (and Hexar AF, and a few luxury AF compacts) to qualify as some odd kind of rangefinder camera, you'd have to extend the definition to include every camera that can do rangefinding (distance metering) independent of its AF. Which compacts generally cannot do - at the very best they have some modes that disable the entire distance metering and convert the camera to fixed or scale focus.
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Every camera is a point a shoot camera, that is what people do with cameras, they point and shoot.

Even HCB in Charlie Rose interview keeps saying i just point and shoot, no big deal.

But then leave it to amateurs and every single marketing gimmicky word becomes holy scripture.
 
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