The Leica M is the de facto digital rangefinder camera. Rangefinder What’s a rangefinder? It’s a viewfinder where a moving part is coupled with the lens focusing to triangulate the parallax. That moving part is projecting the image taken offset the viewfinder, and move when the lens focusing moves. If the two images coincide, the… Continue reading Rangefinder
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Link: Epson R-D1 — the world’s first digital rangefinder camera
Macfilos remembers Epson R-D1 — the world’s first digital rangefinder camera: The Epson R-D1 is definitely a ground-breaking camera. The world’s first digital rangefinder camera with M-Mount and an APS-C CCD sensor with 6.1 Megapixel resolution was released in 2004. It was before Leica did even release the M8. And much less expensive.