Alex_Es Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 In Osaka. I'll tell you more later. At the moment I am falling in love with this thing. One little thing I discovered. I've this Olympus 16/3.5 fisheye + Olympus to Lecia screw mount adapter that I've used for years with either makeshift finders or no finders at all. Guess what finder works with it on the RD-1s. The 15mm finder! I think there is a slight horizontal focusing problem, but won't take it to Epson until after my university's Open Campus in about a week. The problem seems to go away when I use Leica M lenses, as opposed to those with M adapters. Have actually downloaded a pile of shots, but will need to sort through them before posting anything. If my Pentax ist D were a jumbo jet, the RD-1s would be the X-15. With tax it cost me 250,000 yen. For 60,000 less I could have bought a Canon 7sZ with a 50/0.98 lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramig Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 congradulations! I love mine (R-D1, not s). if you wish, check that link for an illustrated calibration instructions. Some generous guy did it himself and posted instructions for the world to see. It is not complicated at all: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18901 I got many R-D1 photos on my portfolio, if you are interested: photo.net/photos/RamiG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Alex, I would be most interested to see any IR captures from your RD1s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Thats about 1185 GBP. Not bad. Robert White have them for 1192 GBP (+ 17.5 percent VAT for us Brits) http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/digital.htm#Labelerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 The Nikon D200 is now 970 GBP (+ VAT) and takes Zeiss ZF lenses. A comparison between a D200 and an RD1-s both with the same focal length Zeiss (ZM or ZF) lens would be interesting. They both have the same 1.5X digital crop. The ZF lenses also seem to to have a big price advantage over ZM. The Planar 50mm f/1.4 ZF is 100 GBP cheaper (and a stop faster) and when you get to the 85mm lenses, the ZF (Nikon Ai-s) is under half the price of the ZM version. This is a comparison I would be really interested in seeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james mitchell dc Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 It's about time you got yourself one, Alex! That's about what I paid for mine in Tokyo, although the exchange rate was better for me. About six or seven more yen to the dollar then. Let me know if you agree that some lenses just do not follow the crop factor of 1.53, or what ever it is supposed to be. My 21 does not, my 35s and 40s do not. A 40 'cron fits the 35 frames almost perfectly. But as with any camera, you just have to get used to it. It turns the 50 'cron into a nice protrait lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james mitchell dc Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Trevor, I have the Zeiss ZM 28mm and use it with the RD-1s. I like that lens a lot. I still have yet to use it with a Leica M, but on the Epson it is very nice. I don't have any Nikon cameras, but I would like to see the comparison as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share Posted July 7, 2006 Thanks guys! Rami, thank you for the link but since this thing is under warrenty I'm going to let Epson do it. I'll take it to Epson in Osaka and let them fiddle with it. It's not that bad and I have practical needs for this machine now. James, the RD-1s is showing just how inconsistent all RF frames tend to be. An example: the frames of the R2A and R3A. The 75 and 90 mm frame of the R3A are nearly identical to the 85 and 100 mm frames of the Canon 7 and 7s. The R2A's frame are a more like 73 and 85mm. And so it goes. Yesterday I found that my old Nikkor 35 to 135 zoom finder is wildly inacurate. The 135mm is more like 200mm. I figured that the 50 frame is more acurately about 60mm (an excuse to get the rather dear Konica 60/1.2?!) and the 35mm frame is more like 45 (might try my Pentax 43/1.9) with it. The 28mm frame is so bananas that I am using both the Zeiss 25/2.8 and Ultron 28/1.9 with it. The good thing is that these frames compensate for the foibes of split-second shooting. The RD-1s has hardly any time lag--as good as Leica and Voigtlander RFs (which have gotten better and better). Today, and only today, I double 28s, 35s, 50s. See what happens. Will post when I think I have something worth posting. Thanks again everyone for your thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Alex, Try the 21mm finder for the 16mm fisheye. I find the 16mm f/3.5 Nikkor on D70 (1.5X crop) to be roughly equivalent to 20mm lens' coverage on full frame. Here is a sample shot.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akochanowski Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Alex, when are you going to throw in the towel and get a grown-up digital camera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymond_tai Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 I got the RD-1 and like it very much. I use it for color and leave film bodies for b/w. Sure the D200 is more advanced but so is the F100 over the M6 but I prefer rangefinders anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james mitchell dc Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Peter, there's some "lint" on the hotshoe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 Vivek, thanks for the tip. Will try. Ray: I love the 53/2 + Contax adapter! Thanks. Enjoy the RD-1s. Andy: You know me; I'll never grow up. Seriously, I have major grown-up problems now that I'm the unofficial in-house photog at my university. I gave up presenting at a conference in Vienna to shoot Taming of the Shrew at the university in May. I would have loved to have used the Pentax istD but it is noisy, like all SLRs so I used Leica Ms. (The effing Pentax chose that very time to go on the blink and so I shot my backstage and setting up shots with my old Pentax LX and "new" Nikon F3 + 24/2.) I am still scanning the film. This weeks after the Prez called my dept. chair to ask "Why aren't the 'Taming of the Shrew' not on-line yet. (I'm a fast scanner and a couple of shots got into the university weekly news sheet and something, presumably, is on-line. See the problem. Scanning piles of film is a pain. Street photography is one thing, shooting bulk is another. I need a quiet professional digital camera. The RD-1s is the camera at comes closest. Leica is going to come out with the MD some day. But I cannot wait until some day. But you reminded me, Andy, that there are tons of used professional SLR for sale for a fraction of their original costs. The cameras replacing them are better, but those 2 and 3 year old oldtimers just recently created published pictures, won prizes for photog or just kept them alive and fairly well-fed. So when are you in New York next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 congrats Alex. Look forward to seeing you more frequently now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted July 9, 2006 Author Share Posted July 9, 2006 Thanks, Eric. With my madcap schedule I'll try to be more seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis1 Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Alex, you must have a ton of cameras right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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