Rangefinder Camera

Did you know about the Rangefinder Camera ..?

Of the various types of digital cameras today, the name Rangefinder camera is not very well known as well as DSLR cameras or Pocket ordinary kind. And for those of you who do not know about rangefinder cameras might assume that the camera is "old school" all-manual. But for now, since 2004 Rangefinder  Digital Camera R-D1 first is made ​​by Epson, and then followed with the Leica M8 rangefinder has broken that the camera is not a camera past the all manual.

Physically, the rangefinder camera there are two boxes, which serves as a Rangefinder viewfinder, and one to help focus.

The term itself refers to the rangefinder a tool of focus found in a camera. Rangefinder cameras focused search system not through a glass pentaprism like DSLR / SLR, but by bringing together two images (one of the viewfinder, and the other from the lens), the focal length was found.

Here are some advantages and disadvantages of rangefinder cameras compared to DSLR type camera

Excess Rangefinder camera than a DSLR:

- Body more compact and lighter, because it does not use a pentaprism mirror

- Focus more quickly due to the stacking system image, while DSLR / SLR based on feeling.

- Viewfinder brighter

Lack Rangefinder camera than a DSLR:

- Expensive

- The availability of lenses and accessories are not as many DSLR / SLR

- There is no depth of field control button, video recording and face detection as a modern DSLR