What are people's reaction to the R-D1?

[porktaco]

i doubt it's about the camera...😉

funny, that's what everyone seems to say...

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Hah,

My R-D1 got some hard stares at the ATEI/ICE convention....
People who do ask about it are usually amazed to learn that it is a digital camera.

 

[markloch]

i doubt it's about the camera...😉

He needs to use a longer lens - 135. Works every time.

 

[aldobonnard]

Hah,

My R-D1 got some hard stares at the ATEI/ICE convention....
People who do ask about it are usually amazed to learn that it is a digital camera.

🙂

same here (Oxford, UK, same country I believe ;-)
I have taped with black tape the name and inscription, and use it with an old canon 28mm P and Summarit 50/1.5 with hood. It does look anachronic, for sure!

 

[shashinka-ichiban]

I find it amazing how many people ask if my D3 is film, and if my GSN is digital. It happenes way too often for my tasts, then again I hate talking to people when I'm trying to work. Regardless, I've been dying to try an R-D1 but there are so few of them for sale minus an occasional one on eBay (of which I do not trust buying a camera through)

 

[JeffGreene]

I find it amazing how many people ask if my D3 is film, and if my GSN is digital. It happenes way too often for my tasts, then again I hate talking to people when I'm trying to work. Regardless, I've been dying to try an R-D1 but there are so few of them for sale minus an occasional one on eBay (of which I do not trust buying a camera through)

You should go to a local RFF meeting. There generally is at least one RD-1 at most of the clubs. I generally bring mine to the Philly get-togethers.

 

[RFH]

Last night I was shooting some images at a party with my R-D1, the Industar 28mm and a handheld flash. Other photographers were there, all equipped with more or less identical DSLRs. One of them came up to me: 'Is that an Epson camera? I didn't know they made cameras, and what's that lens?'. Really curious about what it was. I was just enjoying not having to carry as much weight as him.
So yeah, it gets reactions. In Denmark, I think the R-D1 is exceedingly rare, so nobody's seen one in real life.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

same here (Oxford, UK, same country I believe ;-)

Indeed, the convention was at Earl's Court in London. It was usually the guys with large DSLR cameras that did the staring 😉

I know at least two Dutch members have/had an R-D1, but I've never seen one in the flesh beyond mine. So I got to say it's rare in the Netherlands as well.

 

[jmkelly]

My experience is that most people who notice at all think it's an old film camera. If they care enough to ask and are photo-literate at all they wonder why the pictures look so good with only 6 MP. I get questions about no flash from every cellphone camera shooter, regardless of what camera I carry. "What's an f-stop?"

 

[morgan]

I've had similar experiences, but this one made me laugh a bit. I was in Vienna last week and had a 15 minute conversation in mangled german and english about the R-D1. A girl in a cafe was asking me questions about it and it wasn't until I took off the case and flipped the screen around that she realized it was digital. We had been talking about the brand and the lens that was on (zeiss 25mm) but she seemed genuinely freaked out when she found out it was digital.