Why isn't the Fuji X series in the Rangefinder section

[dreilly]

Wow, three pages on a subject completely devoid of any substance. Isn't there some new 400% crops from the X-1 Pro shot in a cave at ISO 6 million that we can pick apart for chroma noise in the shadows?

Next up: Why isn't a bar of soap in the liquid soap section...

[fireblade]

i'd thought by now it may have been in the tranny section, looks like a woman but really it aint one......but still give you the thrill

[Jurat]

So this has been educational for me. When I bought my x100 I was sold it had a hybrid rangefinder but it's obvious to me now that it isn't. So I appreciate all the info. On the other hand I don't appreciate the private message from a member here saying I have either no knowledge of rangefinders or that I'm a troll.

[Roger Hicks]

Originally Posted by Jurat

So this has been educational for me. When I bought my x100 I was sold it had a hybrid rangefinder but it's obvious to me now that it isn't. So I appreciate all the info. On the other hand I don't appreciate the private message from a member here saying I have either no knowledge of rangefinders or that I'm a troll.

Quite. But one of the penalties if being on the internet is that there is always a small percentage of arseholes whose sole interest in life appears to be trying to insult others. As the old mock-Latin tag runs, Nil illegitimis carborundum: don't let the bar stewards wear you down.

Cheers,

R.

[Spyro]

Ι never get private messages from trolls

[noimmunity]

Originally Posted by Roger Hicks

Quite. But one of the penalties if being on the internet is that there is always a small percentage of arseholes whose sole interest in life appears to be trying to insult others. As the old mock-Latin tag runs, Nil illegitimis carborundum: don't let the bar stewards wear you down.

Cheers,

R.

So true. If only the spectacle of victimhood could be realized for the golden opportunity that it is: a chance to see that other people besides myself suffer in analogous (but never quite the same) ways, and that there is thus a chance for new forms of social solidarity to emerge.

[jsrockit]

Originally Posted by Jurat

On the other hand I don't appreciate the private message from a member here saying I have either no knowledge of rangefinders or that I'm a troll.

Someone seriously PM'd you? Wow, some take this stuff way too seriously.

[taysirco]

It's technically not a rangefinder.

[Teuthida]

In my book, anything that uses a window not routed thru the optics to compose your subject is a rangefinder. With the exception of TLRS, of course. And probably a few more exceptions I can't think of at the moment.

[jsrockit]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

In my book, anything that uses a window not routed thru the optics to compose your subject is a rangefinder.

That's a viewfinder camera technically. All I know is that the X-Pro1 has made me realize I don't necessarily need a RF... just a camera shaped like one with a VF.

[hteasley]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

In my book, anything that uses a window not routed thru the optics to compose your subject is a rangefinder. With the exception of TLRS, of course. And probably a few more exceptions I can't think of at the moment.

But you don't use that window to find the range to the focus target. So how does that make it a rangefinder? You can call it a "direct view camera" logically enough, but merely having a window does not make it a "rangefinder".

Seems that the Fuji proponents are sensing a stigma to the X100/XP1 being Not Rangefinders that isn't intended. They're not rangefinders, but they're pretty awesome cameras.