Epson R-D1 Digital Range Finder

Does the current trend of high digital cameras leave you longing for the past? Remember the days when you had to actually focus your lens, wind the film, calculate the exposure, and wait for the perfect moment to capture the scene. Back then burst rates were defined as how fast you could shoot, focus, and wind the camera back into the ready position. Some of you might of even had a range finder film camera made by Leica. You belonged to a club that discussed the precision optics and life long heritage of your camera. Today we talk about pixels, auto focus systems, zoom lenses and what’s new this year. If you long for the past but live in today then the Epson R-D1 may be the camera for you.

See the Epson R-D1 is the first range finder digital camera to accept Leica M mount lenses. Epson marries the nostalgia of the old manual film camera days with the technology of today. The R-D1 has 6 mega pixel chip and 235,000 pixel LCD. Take away the chip, LCD, and a few buttons the camera is built just like the boxy range finders of yester year.

With a price tag of $2995 from B&Hphoto this is a very expensive 6 mega pixel camera. But Leica fans have never seemed to complain about price. The price does not include a lense but I am sure that photographer who buys this camera already has a few just waiting to mount on the camera.

Beyond the basic 6 mega pixel chip this camera is very manual. The camera features no auto focus, no fancy 45 segment metering system, not even a pop up flash. It does have the old school exposure needles and needles to show how many pictures are left of the SD memory card. Plus you can finally use a non-dedicated x sync external flash again. The camera does offer some high tech features of today including two file formats RAW and JPEG, color balance, ISO settings of 200-1600, LCD screen, and a few others.

The bright viewfinder and cropping guides to adjust for the 1.5 multiplier of the APS sized CCD chip help the photographer always keep their eye on the subject. One of the benefits of the old range finder camer was that you never had to look through the dim light of your lens or loose site of the subject while the shutter and mirror fire in a standard TTL camera.

This camera is not about the high tech gadgets. It does offer decent resolution and accurate color rendition. We will likely see improvements if a second camera is released but for now old school photographers with Leica lenses should take advantage of this opportunity while it lasts.

Cool features:

• Camera type
  Rangefinder digital camera with interchangeable lens mount
  
• CCD sensor
  APS size: .93" x .61" (23.7 x 15.6mm)
  Total CCD resolution: 6.3 million pixels
  Effective pixels: 6.1 million pixels
  Magnification factor 1.53
  
• File format
  JPEG (normal/high), Epson RAW
  File type: Exif 2.21, DCF (Design Rule for Camera File) System 2.0, DPOF 1.1 (Digital Print Order Format) compliant
  
• Resolution Modes
  JPEG Normal: 2240 x 1488 pixels
  JPEG High: 3008 x 2000 pixels
  RAW: 3008 x 2000 pixels
  
• Viewfinder
  Coincident real image rangefinder, 1.0x magnification
  
• Rangefinder
  Split-image and coincident image rangefinder (interlocking range: 0.7m - infinity)
  
• Visual field frame
  Angle setting: 28/35/50mm bright frames, auto parallax correction
  
• Lens Mount
  EM mount (compatible with M-mount) L-mount with optional third-party adapter
  
• Shutter speed
  1/2000 - 1 second, bulb
  
• Exposure control
  Aperture priority auto / manual, with AE lock function -2.0 / +2.0V exposure value adjustment (1/3 EV steps)
  
• Sensitivity
  ISO 200/400/800/1600
  
• White balance
  Auto (TTL metering auto white balance), sunlight, clouds, shade, incandescent and fluorescent
  
• Metering
  TTL screen surface direct actual-aperture center-weighted averaged metering
  
• LCD Monitor
  2" low-temperature polysilicon TFT color LCD (235K pixels)
  View photos, detailed information, histogram and camera menus.
  
• Needle Display Module
  Display using four needles (image quality setting/white balance setting/frames remaining/battery level)
  
• X Contact
  For external flash (synchronizes at shutter speed 1/125 second or less)
  
• Color Setting
  Color and monochrome (standard black and white, green filter, yellow filter, orange filter, red filter)
  
• Picture Settings
  Standard, three user defined settings (edge enhancement, saturation, tint, contrast, and noise reduction)
  
• Storage
  Secure Digital memory card (supports up to 1GB)
  
• Camera body
  Magnesium alloy
  
• Tripod Mount
  ¼" (ISO 1222)
  
• Dimensions and Weight (body only)
  Dimensions: 5.59" x 3.48" x 1.56" (W x H x D)
  Weight without memory card and battery: 1.24 lb.
  

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Posted by chad on 15:05, March 18 2005

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