Comments on: Do You Need a Rangefinder for Street Photography?

By: John

John — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:12:38 +0000

Check out the Ricoh grd3. 28mm lens, an external viewfinder, no shutter lag when you zone focus.

By: BRUTUS

BRUTUS — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:30:06 +0000

Shut up and shoot.

By: pebcak

pebcak — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:27:56 +0000

You do not need a rangefinder, but for composing and reacting rangefinders are better, simply for the reason that your view on both eyes is the same and you can see people walking in and out of your shot much better that way. Doing that on a (D)SLR gives me a very strong headache. They are also most often not that noticeable.

By: Brad Elterman

Brad Elterman — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:58:50 +0000

I am seriously thinking of purchasing a Leica M7 and the 50 2.0 and the 28 2.0. I yearn to shoot film once again. brad

By: monn

monn — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:53:19 +0000

There seems to be a lot of fuss about this lately – to me its simple, do you ‘need’ one? of course not, do they help, of course, anyone should be able to see that.

By: Roderick

Roderick — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:30:41 +0000

@mark: I truly hope you meant to say “…drained like **** IN a toilet bowl”. Nonetheless, it’s a smelly comment for sure.

I suppose, if one can buy all that expensive gear, then could also afford the servant to come in and clean the toilet bowl after they…

As for the rest…a bit obvious, don’t you think?!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:07:24 +0000

Your equipments, be it a Leica M9, Canon 5D, Nikon D3s, etc. will be useless and all your photos will be crap if you don’t combine your imagination with it. All your cash spent on those expensive snappers, drained like shit on a toilet bowl.

By: Tony Edenden

Tony Edenden — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:53:11 +0000

Street photography requires that you know your camera so well, you don’t waste a moment thinking about controls. Shoot and keep shooting you’ll walk miles and have bad bad days. but slowly you’ll develop an instinct for a picture. You may have a favourite photographer, that may help you in the early day’s,but keep plugging away and perhaps you’ll suprise yourself. So…..forget the type of camera for a while and train the eye…….thats when the pictures start to come……………..”the harder I work, the luckier I become” …………….and we all need lady luck on our side !

By: W.C. Wood

W.C. Wood — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:06 +0000

I agree with Tom and Marcello. Rangefinders, in most all instances, have quiet shutters (except Bessa R’s), and because of this and their smaller size they are easy to carry and pull out on the street without intimidating the subject like an SLR can. By setting a pre-focus, you can snap away with hardly anyone noticing. Try that with a bulky SLR or a slow-focus, noisy-motor point-and-shoot. Of course one can do street photograph with an SLR, but it’s the wrong tool IMO.
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By: Marcello Sokal

Marcello Sokal — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:42:00 +0000

Isn´t a case of a NEED of a rangefinder,but it´s a matter of praticity – RF cameras are light,silent,rapid,small and don´t intimate the people. The bright viewfinder is a bonus to street shooting,too. Street photography with a DSLR and a big lens (fast one)? don´t made sense to me…