New Epson Rangefinder!

Wooo! Is anyone else excited?

http://www.dpreview.co​m …1epsonrd1xrange​finder.asp

Sign me up!

As long as IQ is decent, I'm willing to accept 6MP as long as it's a clean crisp noise free image.


EDIT - Can somebody explain why it has a film advance level on it? Purely aesthetics?

NickSimcheck wrote in post #7418068
As long as IQ is decent, I'm willing to accept 6MP as long as it's a clean crisp noise free image.

Stay at a low ISO and you should be fine.

NickSimcheck wrote in post #7418068
EDIT - Can somebody explain why it has a film advance level on it? Purely aesthetics?

It should be the same as the R-D1 and the R-D1s and it cocks the shutter.

i am a big rangefinder lover
owning 1 contax G1 and 1 leica M4P
but when it comes to digital
and having used Leica M8 for a while which i believe it was 10mp
it was a big disappointment especially in high iso
so i don't think this one will be any different

i just switched to canon 5D2 and i can not believe how good this camera is
i wish it wasn't so uggly.

i hope one day there will be a 21mp or more rangefinder manual camera that i will be able to enjoy
but till then i will stick with dslr's

that's just my opinion
hope that i didn't offend anyone

That is the nature of CCD sensors...

wtf -- same sensor? What kind of brilliant thinking is that? Haven't sensors improved just a bit in the years that have passed?

I was going to be excited but it looks like a very minor update. At least it illustrates some interest in keeping the market alive and that they will keep producing rangefinders, which is interesting. Obviously they saw that the used market is keeping the price on the original propped up. Too bad it is a Japanese only release.

Let's sum up. What do you think concerning all it?

I'm hoping it will bring some prices down, then I might be able to afford one. I can't do any serious work with it, and I wish the price would reflect that.

Damg it, I just bought the lastest model last year. But it seem not to be much of an upgrade so it really is not that big of a deal.

I really like the idea of a small portable digital slr/rangefinder but looks a bit too expensive (seeing as it uses Leica lenses) and a bit too low in resolution (6MP CCD sensor). Personally, I think it would be better if it used a 10-12MP CMOS sensor that allows for ISO 100.

I was looking for a small second body to carry around but couldn't get the Canon G10, too noisy and too much IQ degradation, so I ended up with an Oly E 420 instead.

I keep hoping that Canon will come up with somthing like this, or a Sigma DP 1, or the new Olympus micro 4/3 compact camera but I guess not.

i think the Epson Rangefinder has had its time! Perhaps that is why Epson is not planning to market it outside of Japan.

I think the Micro 4/3 is a better and cheaper option, but hopefully, Olympus or Panasonic will come out with a model that has a lower than the current 2x crop factor. 1.3x will be very very acceptable!

adam8080 wrote in post #7417997
Wooo! Is anyone else excited?

I would be if it weren't APS-C.
Rangefinders is wide angle domain IMO.

"New" rangefinder? Kinda stretching the meaning of the word "new", eh? I'd be interested if it were less 2004 and more 2009, you know what I mean?

I'd be all for a new Canon FF Rangefinder

Could cost the same as the 5DII, use the same sensor and etc

lens lineup would be simple, a 15mm fisheye, 14mm, 20mm and 24mm f/2.8, 28 f/2, 35 f/1.8, 50 f/1.4 and 50 f/1 (or f/0.95), as well as a 85 f/1.4 and a 135 f/1.4 and f/2.8

Yes, 135 f/1.4

Simply put, its for someone who wants the best wide angle performance, and the best wide angle options....it really cant compete with the 5D...

They could easily have an adapter to use current EOS lenses too.