Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] The rangefinder is back! - Olympus EP-1
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:02:28 -0500
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wonderful image
well done
whatever the gear and viewing technique

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Jun 17, 2009, at 6:33 AM, 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:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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In reply to: Message from john.o.newell at comcast.net (J. Newell) ([Leica] The rangefinder is back! - Olympus EP-1)
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