Comments on: Is Olympus re-inventing the digital rangefinder?

By: Ed Z

Ed Z — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:59:15 +0000

Same here. I’ve been using a G9 as a “carryaround/street” camera, but it has it’s limitations.

I think Olympus has a lot of the pieces of the puzzle to make a stellar product in this area- they already have the sensor, they have the optical technology to deliver high quality at low registration distances (their whole “designed for digital” lenses w/the microlenses etc…) plus the advantage in live view technology…

If they do it right, this could be a *killer* camera for the “rangefinder” crowd – and likely even bring that aesthetic more mainstream, by making it much more accessible to the public…

By: Mason Resnick

Mason Resnick — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:24:47 +0000

Since I started teaching street photography, my students have been asking me about a digital street camera, and I’ve had to say that other than the Leica M8 and the Epson (which is incredibly hard to find these days), there really is nothing out there that I could recommend.

Let’s hope Olympus and/or Panasonic do it right. We should know more after Photokina.

By: Richard Eldred

Richard Eldred — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:52:52 +0000

I was plotting to buy a nice point and shoot camera at some point, if anything just for the convenience to carry around. I was considering cameras such as the Sigma DP-1 and Canon G9, but being an existing Olympus OM and Four Thirds shooter, I think I’ll just wait for this platform to kick off .