The RFF Contest

A writing contest, great! I'm ADD and you want me to .... Oh,look , cookies. Chocolat chip, my favorite. Yum. Writing, yea, writing that's it. That's what I'm doing. Gee, had those cookies now I'm thristy. What to drink? Milk? Soda? Water? I can't decide. Seems I should be doing something else. What? .........
 
If he can do it in Hungarian I'm gonna have mine translated into Mongolian! Maybe we get some members from over there than as well. 🙂

BTW, I haven't seen ANY rf camera in Mongolia yet. Old Nikon SLRs. yes (and working still after 20-30 years, in scorching summer and freezing winter! Not really good story if I'm to persuade people to go the rf route...). Digital cameras, plenty. But no rf cameras at all!
When I get myself a Kiev I'm gonna bring it to Mongolia. Maybe someone recognises it....
 
Bridgekeeper: In order to cross the bridge, a question thou shalt answer...

SLR Knight: Ok ok old sourfaced man, shoot.

BK: OK.

BANG!

The SLR knight is DEAD !

...

- Digital Knight doesn't seem impressed, and approaches with firm steps to the abyss border, determined to defeat the terrible Bridgekeeper and cross the doomed bridge -

Digital Knight: THAY PAWER OF MEGAPIXELS FLOWS THRU MY VEINS ! I AM READY FOR YOUR QUESTION.

BK: Let's see, brave knight, if you can take me a portrait (shallow DOF please with the bridge making a diagonal line in the background so that it progressively vanishes into out of focus and a 35mm perspective more or less to it can make a nice environmental portrait) before the sun sets down, or you'll go straight down the abyss.

- Digital knight puts himself to the job, turns on the lcd screen and starts chimping up and down, browsing through nested menus trying to look for the specific funcion 'bridgekeeper-environmental-portrait-with-diagonal-bridge-progressively- going-to-out-of-focus'. Time goes by... -

Digital knight: Uh... oh ? Ah ! THAY BATTERIES WENT KAPPUT !

Bridgekeeper: Be so, down the abyss you go.

D. knight: AHH NOOO WAIT LET ME PLUG THE CHARGEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrr...................

- RF Knight looks how his digital fellow goes down the abyss, sadly remembers how many times he told him to see the light of RFWisdom.

BK: The last one you are... hahahaha... but the sun went down already, no time for environmentalportraitwithbridgeinthebackgorundgoingtooof you have ! The fate of your friends you'll soon follow...

RF Knight: Stop there old man, because I already took a bunch of portraits like the one you asked while I was waiting for my friend to finish, and you didn't even notice !

BK: Uh... ah... ahhh... clever you are, clever... Now... show me those portraits and if I like them you'll pass... otherwise...

RF K: HA ! No portraits you'll see unless the bridge you keep me cross to have the film developed !

BK: AAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!!!! Indeed clever you are, RF knight !!!! But in order to pass, a question you will answer !!!!

RF K: Be then.

BK: Cruel smile on his face. Ahhh knight, let's see if you're so clever, tell me you know-it-all, which is the effective baselength of the classic Contax rangefinder !?!?

RF K: Hmmm... Contax I, II or IIa ?

BK: Uh... oh... I don't know ! ....

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh shouts BK after the hidden resort pushes him down the abyss and the RF knight tooks a couple pictures of the incident to finish the roll and proceeds to rewind it slowly while crossing the doomed bridge with still some traces of dusk light surrounding the first evening stars.
 
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Oscar and Bill M got my vote. Now you two will have to do a RF duel. 😉
 
Send the camera to Oscar.

Can I just do a PowerPoint presentation outlining all of the clear advantages of RF cameras over SLR camera, Digital SLR Cameras, point and shoot cameras, and all others?

I even have a Dye-Sub printer to output it.
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Latency

o Problem: Latency is the biggest barrier between you and the Photograph that you want

o Digital Cameras have the Highest Latency of any camera due to the processing lag between releasing the shutter, focussing the lens, and snapping the shot

o SLR cameras have high latency due to the Mirror

o RF Cameras have the lowest Latency as the Shutter is always ready to take the picture

o Other "attempts" to emulate the fast operation of RF cameras invariably compromises image quality or Operation
- Canon Pellix sacrifices 1/3 stop with semi-transparent mirror that is prone to deteriation
- Twin-Lens Reflex Cameras are big, bulky, and have limited choice of Lenses

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As an added bonus. Stephen Gandy from CameraQuest has thrown in a new 40mm 1.4 and LH-5 lens hood. So, having said all of this, the Complete RFF contest prize will consist of an incredible rangefinder camera package made up of a new Bessa R3A with the 40mm 1,4 and lens hood.
 
The word limit brings up a good point, would you like these pieces to err on the side of brevity, or comprehensiveness, or is it up to the writer? If it is just going to be use and another person reading them, then you may want to institute some limit.
 
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Jorge Torralba said:
As an added bonus. Stephen Gandy from CameraQuest has thrown in a new 40mm 1.4 and LH-5 lens hood. So, having said all of this, the Complete RFF contest prize will consist of an incredible rangefinder camera package made up of a new Bessa R3A with the 40mm 1,4 and lens hood.

Jorge,

First of all thanks for this great idea, which fits perfectly to the RFF style of communication.
Did i understand you right when you said the contribution can be written in different languages ?
I am quite good in writing journalistic articles in German, but my English is more like hewing stone, there is no real style in it, not to speak of any kind of elegance, as everybody here at RFF has surely noticed already.

So if you really accept a german text this would improve my chance to win enormously !

Shall I write in my mother language ?

Best,
Bertram
 
Yes. German is welcomed and I will translate it using a service. I will then have an actual person review it for grammatical errors produced during the translation.
 
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