There will never be a relatively inexpensive rangefinder with D-SLR type interchangeable lenses AND an optical viewfinder. There are too many design problems with making that work. The film rangefinders that had interchangeable lenses and optical viewfinders could use only specific lenses and retain the use of the viewfinder. And they were generally very expensive, relatively speaking.
The camera I want is a rangefinder with a 2-10 MP/cm² pixel density, optical viewfinder, and a 50mm (35mm equiv) f1.8 or faster fixed lens.
Following the commercial success (and technical disappointment) of the original Wildfire -- which featured a miserly 528MHz CPU and QVGA display -- HTC has returned with the Wildfire S.
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There will never be a relatively inexpensive rangefinder with D-SLR type interchangeable lenses AND an optical viewfinder. There are too many design problems with making that work. The film rangefinders that had interchangeable lenses and optical viewfinders could use only specific lenses and retain the use of the viewfinder. And they were generally very expensive, relatively speaking.
The camera I want is a rangefinder with a 2-10 MP/cm² pixel density, optical viewfinder, and a 50mm (35mm equiv) f1.8 or faster fixed lens.
Sorry, the Pen E-P1 misses the mark, IMHO.
Well, I think I'd want three lenses (35mm equiv, all): 28mm, 50mm, 90mm.
35mm, which what the 17mm prime is roughly equivalent to, isn't wide enough to be WA, but is too wide for an walk around lens.