getting a start with rangefinders

miha · Sep 8, 2013

Gerald, I have never seen a working pro shooting sports with a Leica/Bessa. The best success rate with fastly moving subjects is generally achievable with a camera that can shoot many frames per second and is able to AF. Even die-hard Leica users of the time had a Nikon with a long lens ready for such occasions

MattKing · Sep 8, 2013

IMHO, the reason rangefinders are advantageous when shooting moving subjects is that the viewfinders usually allow the photographer to see movement outside of the field of view of the lens - they help you anticipate the right moment.

ntenny · Sep 8, 2013

The sports "use case" is complicated by the fact that RFs don't work that well with long lenses. If you had a sports situation that you could shoot comfortably with a 90mm lens, then you could make an apples-to-apples comparison between RF and SLR systems---but how often does that happen?

-NT

Gerald C Koch · Sep 8, 2013

ntenny said:
The sports "use case" is complicated by the fact that RFs don't work that well with long lenses. If you had a sports situation that you could shoot comfortably with a 90mm lens, then you could make an apples-to-apples comparison between RF and SLR systems---but how often does that happen?

-NT

Then there is the problem with camera shake and depth of field with long SLR lenses. Given a choice between using a telephoto and getting closer to the subject most people would choose getting closer. It's all a trade off.

Moopheus · Sep 8, 2013

MattKing said:
IMHO, the reason rangefinders are advantageous when shooting moving subjects is that the viewfinders usually allow the photographer to see movement outside of the field of view of the lens - they help you anticipate the right moment.

Right. No matter what camera you're using, you're still at the mercy of your finger. And the finger is going to introduce a delay that's quite a bit bigger than the shutter lag of the camera--around 2-4 tenths of a second. I'd be very surprised if you could control the timing of that motion to within 20 milliseconds. So time parallax is still bs.

And it isn't about what camera is faster--in fact, the point is that in most cases, it doesn't matter. Most pro-grade cameras, at least, are faster than you are.

Someonenameddavid · Sep 10, 2013

Oh but if someone were to design a high speed camera with a pellicle mirror you would have the best of worlds... oh look Nikon and Canon did.....

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