cheapest rangefinder

[elutris]

Originally posted by YSLee
It's just as it says.. it's a rangefinder. (not rangefinder camera)

But by putting the rangefinder together with the camera (which I am guessing is the purpose of the rangefinder), doesn't it make it a rangefinder camera?

Or is this somewhere along the argument of ... it's a flash gun, not an SLR with an internal flash.

Or... it's a motor drive, not an SLR with an internal motordrive.

 

[denizenx]

no lah he's just saying that ad is just selling the rangefinder mechanism not a full camera.... relak dude...
lomo got so many type... the lomography ones got no RF model...
holga is a viewfinder not using the rangefinder...
RF is using two windows to combine into one prism which you see. So that the object u want coincides in both images, while unfocused images have slight overlap gaps.

 

[denizenx]

like using ur two eyes to focus on diff distances, the one u want will be nicely positioned on both eyes, but others will be offset by a bit.. stereo vision...
holga just uses the normal window like compacts..

 

[ckiang]

Originally posted by elutris


But by putting the rangefinder together with the camera (which I am guessing is the purpose of the rangefinder), doesn't it make it a rangefinder camera?

Or is this somewhere along the argument of ... it's a flash gun, not an SLR with an internal flash.

Or... it's a motor drive, not an SLR with an internal motordrive.

Yup, it's just that. A rangefinder - basically a device for you to measure distance.

Regards
CK

 

[rubric]

More rangefinder information can be found here:

http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~yue/misc/rangfndr.html