What Is Your Favorite Digital Rangefinder Camera?

[airfrogusmc]

My MM is good to 10,000 and the little 18MP sensor because there is no color has been compared to a 36MP camera (d800) when talking sharpness.

 

[Kwesi]

I think its interesting that the M Typ 240 is considered a favorite camera in this poll but is not considered a good value in the concurrent "best value" poll. The Epson RD1 cameras are considered favorably in both polls which makes both polls only relevant in the RFF community.

 

[Keith]

It makes you realise that if Cosina and Epson dared to be different and released a revamped version of the RD-1 with a full frame sensor it would have a waiting market. Especially with the current disillusionment with Leica!

 

[Keyne]

It makes you realise that if Cosina and Epson dared to be different and released a revamped version of the RD-1 with a full frame sensor it would have a waiting market. Especially with the current disillusionment with Leica!

+1 I would buy one. A refreshed RD-1 would be awesome.

 

[airfrogusmc]

I'm not disillusioned with Leica. My MM is by far my favorite camera and the one I shoot all of my personal work with.

Ralph Gibson's words could have been mine when he said this about the MM.
"This camera will do anything I am capable of doing. I will never get to the end of what this instrument can perform."-Ralph Gibson

 

[EpicRavenLord]

If I had the Cash

If I had the Cash

Don't get me wrong… I'd buy the M240 and a couple Leica f/1.4 lenses if I had the money for it. Shooting ISO 2000-3200 on the 240 with little noise is very doable. But with my style of shooting I like having clean files at ISO 4000 as an "affordable" option. .. thats why I have a Nikon Df.

 

[Keith]

I'm not disillusioned with Leica. My MM is by far my favorite camera and the one I shoot all of my personal work with.

Ralph Gibson's words could have been mine when he said this about the MM.
"This camera will do anything I am capable of doing. I will never get to the end of what this instrument can perform."-Ralph Gibson

I could say that about my $45.00 Fed2 I bought in 2006! 😀

 

[airfrogusmc]

I could say that about my $45.00 Fed2 I bought in 2006! 😀

Then you got off cheap.

Finding the equipment that matches the way you see and work is priceless.

 

[Sparrow]

The Epson R-D1, for the 1:1 finder, the wind on lever, I can hide the Display, the dials give a fun element.

... I'm that shallow the wind-on lever and the Art Deco dials were enough to convince me

 

[rbelyell]

gosh, just got through posting infavor of rd1 on the 'best value' thread and could not believe that my measley 6mp rd1 is running ahead of all M's here! wow! guess i made a decent choice...had enough money left over to buy a 21 elmarit, 75 summarit, the tiny leica type 112 and a few nice dinners. love my rd1. i find myself reaching for it more and more and leaving the excellent rx1 behind. more to photography than mp's, no?

 

[noimmunity]

Given the nature of rangefinder photography the sensor would have to be a lowlight beast... The Foveon is not. Slap an A7s full frame sensor into an Ikon ZM ... And fear no light... Or lack there of.

I'd want BOTH 😀

(Keith's Foveon R-D1 and the digital ZI with A7s type sensor (re-stacked for RF glass)).

 

[colonel]

I don't have any interest in Foveon as there are simply too many issues and downsides with it at the moment and the latest bayer sensors seem to do a bang up job.

I think the M240 is terrific but perhaps for the next generation Leica could offer a choice of a 16mp super-clean high-ISO version and a 40mp super-detailed one

The main problem is that I could see the years of arguments between the two sides re: the 40mp lot saying that scaled down their picture is just as good as the 16mp one.......

 

[tempest68]

They haven't made the one I want yet. Either a Contax G3D or Voigtlander R3D please.

 

[noisycheese]

M 240, because that's what I have 😀

What he said.

If cash were to fall out the sky, I would get a black M-P to back up the M240 with. I do not want the M-P badly enough to sell/trade the M240 I have and pay the difference for a new M-P though.

 

[mfunnell]

M 240, because that's what I have 😀

What he said.

If cash were to fall out the sky, I would get a black M-P to back up the M240 with. I do not want the M-P badly enough to sell/trade the M240 I have and pay the difference for a new M-P though.

What he said, and what you said too...

...Mike

 

[Cyriljay]

I just answered M8U as it is the camera I have but I still don't find my favourite camera in the list as it will appear within next 5years to come .
🙄

 

[andriirad]

I'm extremely happy with my M9, but I also missing sometimes old good Epson R-D1s, which I used to have for a few years.

 

[ray*j*gun]

I just don't get the Epson choice. I admit I had one and it broke almost immediately so I suppose I'm biased but do they print well enough with the limited sensor capabilities? I guess Id like to borrow one for a while to see if I'm missing something here. I have an M8u and love it BTW.

 

[andriirad]

I just don't get the Epson choice. I admit I had one and it broke almost immediately so I suppose I'm biased but do they print well enough with the limited sensor capabilities? I guess Id like to borrow one for a while to see if I'm missing something here. I have an M8u and love it BTW.

If you didn't have a good opportunity to shoot with uncle Epson before and now you have an option to borrow one - don't even think twice! It's an amazing camera with its own image character and color beauty + it's gonna give you different view about shoots on high ISO with digital RF...I think you gonna love Epson's high ISO performance much more, than your M8u. Trust me - I had both)
Prints up to A3 size looks just gorgeous! 6MP its more than enough for this matter.

 

[Rob-F]

Misnaming a camera the "M" in the face of 60's years of what, close to a 600,000 + M's before it, is the real misnomer.

Instead of mindlessly following official the Leica misnomer Metropolis style,
it would b good to see more Leica owners appreciating Leica's heritage and wake up
to protest this bad PR foolishness and lack of awareness of all the M's that preceded THE M.

Stephen

Well Said! Is there some reason why Leica can't count above 9?