Is the G1 a rangefinder?

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In dim lighting I find the EVF's electronic amplification of the scene to be very useful for composition and focus; again, it's not directly rangefinder-ish, but at least as usable; perhaps more useful in dim lighting than a non-amplified optical viewfinder.

So technically, the G1 is obviously NOT a rangefinder. But it exhibits many of the attributes of a rangefinder camera in terms of usage modes. It's a very capable, easy to use tool for creating photographic images discretely and quietly, all the while maintaining a high degree of quality.

Back to the topic, these are great points. Small, quiet, and doesn't bring attention to itself.

 

[Al Patterson]

It's neither a rangefinder nor an SLR

It's an ILDCS

Interchangeable
Lens
Digital
Camera
System

... and it's about time.

Or maybe we can call it a DILC - more of a ring...

Over at DP Review folks use the term EVIL

Electronic
Viewfinder
Interchangeable
Lens

So maybe here it belongs between a rangefinder subgroup and Evil SLRs?

I for one am intrigued with a system where I can use one digital device with either my FD lenses, or my M lenses.

 

[bmattock]

Some - People - Are - So - Literal - They - Become - Silly -

If 2 + 2 = 4, then there is no point in arguing over how much 4 resembles the letter 'A'. The G1 is not a rangefinder. Literal? Yes. Accurate, too.

Insisting that it is a rangefinder because it resembles the way a person might use a rangefinder, or insisting that it is a rangefinder because one chooses to use the term 'rangefinder' to mean a variety of things from fried eggs to firetrucks does not make it a rangefinder.

Whilst perusing your dictionary, consider the words 'simile' and 'metaphor'.

 

[Tuolumne]

If 2 + 2 = 4, then there is no point in arguing over how much 4 resembles the letter 'A'. The G1 is not a rangefinder. Literal? Yes. Accurate, too.

Insisting that it is a rangefinder because it resembles the way a person might use a rangefinder, or insisting that it is a rangefinder because one chooses to use the term 'rangefinder' to mean a variety of things from fried eggs to firetrucks does not make it a rangefinder.

Whilst perusing your dictionary, consider the words 'simile' and 'metaphor'.

You must be right because you must be right. And so you are.

/T

 

[back alley]

let's all take a deep breath...

 

[back alley]

i don't think i deleted anything by you moof.