Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/16

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Subject: [Leica] The rangefinder is back! - Olympus EP-1
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:07:22 +0100
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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.
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>
>
> ;-)  ^3
>
>
>
> (that's a wink, cubed)
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>
> John Newell
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>
>
> ----- 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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Replies: Reply from simon.apekop at gmail.com (simon jessurun) ([Leica] The rangefinder is back! - Olympus EP-1)
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