Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/17

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Subject: [Leica] The rangefinder is back! - Olympus EP-1
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (Philippe Amard)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:58:41 +0200
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As marvellous as on the first day - kudos!
Thanks
Philippe


simon jessurun wrote:

>For what it's worth the following was shot with live view handheld at
>1/170thit takes a bit of fiddling with the switches and holding the distance
>steady but then the heigher weight and mirror lock up works nicely . For me
>anyway
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/animal/kleur.gif.html
><http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/animal/kleur.gif.html>best,simon
>
>On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Frank Dernie
><Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>wrote:
>
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>
>>Quite so! In the same way that the only use I have found for "live view" is
>>on a tripod. Mind you this thing would be a bastard to get in your pocket
>>with the tripod attached...
>>Frank
>>
>>On 17 Jun, 2009, at 02:47, J. Newell wrote:
>>
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>>    
>>
>>>Those eye-level thingies you're talking about will never catch on.  Real
>>>photographers focus and compose by looking at the image on the rear of the
>>>camera.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>;-)  ^3
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>(that's a wink, cubed)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>John Newell
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
>>>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:22:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>>>Subject: Re: [Leica] The rangefinder is back! - Olympus EP-1
>>>
>>>At 09:07 PM 6/16/2009, you wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>A camera like this should be going over real big on the LUG. This should
>>>>be
>>>>what we've been waiting for in plenty of our collective or individual
>>>>mind
>>>>sets.
>>>>
>>>>Mark William Rabiner
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>But it has no viewfinder! I can't stand holding the camera out at
>>>arm's length and looking at an LCD screen to take a photo.
>>>
>>>
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