Who is NOT on the 'Camera and Coffee' thread

camera and wine:

Why is it that RF cameras/lenses only focus down to a little less than 1m? Even a cheap slr with a macro lens, extender, or suplimentary lens will focus close. Not even the expensive Leica can focus closer than a cheap fixed lens camera.

Oh, it's wine, not whine!
 
I'm waiting for my GorillaPod to come so I can use my Pentax to photograph my MP and Bessa-T with Delta café. :)
 
I don't drink coffee and I've somehow never gotten around to taking a "camera and cocoa" photo. Too lazy, I guess.
 
My Coffee and Camera have gone.
I've never looked.

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HuubL said:
The busiest and longest thread on RFF, no doubt. Just wondering who doesn't have a post there...
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Me! I like Rich. I like RFF, but I want no part of the C&C thread. :)

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It's a very long thread. I haven't posted there. I drink coffee. I have a camera. But I don't think I've ever taken my camera out for coffee...
 
FrankS said:
Why is it that RF cameras/lenses only focus down to a little less than 1m?
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I've wondered that too. The Pentax will easily focus down to 15" or so with no help from any makeshifts, while the Mamiya goes only to 1m and the GIII to .8m. I assume there's some kind of a practical limitation as to how far that mirror/lens/prism/whatever can turn within the rangefinder assembly.
 
You are correct, at some point (probably very close to 0.7m), a reasonably-priced RF can no longer compensate for parallax & w/the advent of SLRs, there's no reason to bother making one (in the old pre-SLR days, Leitz, Zeiss Ikon, Canon, etc., as well as 3rd-party manufacturers, made close-up accessories).

dmr said:
I've wondered that too. The Pentax will easily focus down to 15" or so with no help from any makeshifts, while the Mamiya goes only to 1m and the GIII to .8m. I assume there's some kind of a practical limitation as to how far that mirror/lens/prism/whatever can turn within the rangefinder assembly.
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This was just an invented "whine" in an obviously failed attempt to be funny. The problem is parallax.
 
I'm not a coffee drinker. I prefer either iced tea or Dublin Dr Pepper.. :p
 
I like coffee but I think ultimately I'm just lazy. Pathetic, I know, but what can you do?

Cheers,
Alex
 
MartinP said:
It has to be tea and camera, surely . . . Tea and hot, buttered, Zorki anyone ?
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Certainly you meant tea and "sconicas"? ;)

I'm with the leaf, not the bean, so no, I never dived into that thread. Just discovered Scottish Breakfast tea (note to MacAulay/Jenni: why has this stuff been a big secret till now?).


- Barrett
 
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