A rangefinder (also rangefinding telemeter, depending on the context) is a device used to measure distances to remote objects. Originally optical devices...
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A rangefinder camera is a camera fitted with a rangefinder, typically a split-image rangefinder: a range-finding focusing mechanism allowing the photographer...
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A laser rangefinder, also known as a laser telemeter, is a rangefinder that uses a laser beam to determine the distance to an object. The most common form...
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A coincidence rangefinder or coincidence telemeter is a type of rangefinder that uses the principle of triangulation and an optical device to allow an...
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A stereoscopic rangefinder or stereoscopic telemeter is an optical device that measures distance from the observer to a target, using the observer's capability...
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rangefinder cameras (including digital Leica M-series cameras) are technically mirrorless, because they do not contain a mirror. However, rangefinder...
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built in rangefinder coupled to the lens focusing mechanism. This model has a separate viewfinder (showing a reduced image) and rangefinder. In 1932,...
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Camera (section Rangefinder camera)
rangefinder were combined. Many rangefinder cameras had interchangeable lenses, each lens requiring its range- and viewfinder linkages. Rangefinder cameras...
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Autofocus (redirect from Electronic rangefinder)
on an automatically or manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical system...
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35 mm Bessa (category Cosina rangefinder cameras)
introduced in 2002, the Bessa-R2S having a Nikon rangefinder mount and the Bessa-R2C a Contax rangefinder mount. In 2005, shortly before discontinuation...
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Stadiametric rangefinding (redirect from Stadiametric rangefinder)
laser rangefinding methods. Although much easier to use, electronic rangefinders can give away the shooter's position to a well-equipped adversary, and...
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or 45 mm f/2.8 lens and featured a built-in selenium light meter and rangefinder. Both the aperture and shutter speed were set automatically. The Hi-Matic...
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Konica Hexar RF (section Viewfinder/Rangefinder)
The Konica Hexar RF is a 35 mm rangefinder camera which was sold by Konica. It was introduced to the market on 13 October 1999. and subsequently discontinued...
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types: modular cameras with a digital back, true rangefinder cameras (without autofocus), rangefinder-style mirrorless cameras, digital single-lens reflex...
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The FED is a Soviet rangefinder camera, mass-produced from 1934 until around 1996, and also the name of the factory that made it. The factory emerged...
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Voigtländer Bessa (category Voigtländer rangefinder cameras)
Bessa is the best-known line of folding viewfinder and rangefinder cameras manufactured by Voigtländer, which was a dual-format camera that took 6×9 and...
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R-compatible Minolta lenses Minolta M-mount, a 35mm Leica M-compatible rangefinder lens mount between 1973 and 1985 Minolta A-mount, a 35mm auto-focus SLR...
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Wave radar (redirect from Microwave rangefinder)
Microwave rangefinders also operate in vertical mode at GHz frequencies and are not as affected by fog and water spray as the laser rangefinder. A continuous...
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Nikon SP (category Nikon rangefinder cameras)
interchangeable lens, 35 mm film, rangefinder camera introduced in 1957. It is the culmination of Nikon's rangefinder development which started in 1948...
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first Leica camera with a rangefinder. Leica III: 1933. Leica incorporated slow shutter speeds on this model. M (rangefinder) film series The "M" within...
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AN/PEQ-1 did not have a laser rangefinder nor could it interface directly with GPS devices. Both the laser rangefinder and GPS interface capabilities...
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Voigtländer Vito (category Voigtländer rangefinder cameras)
Automatic were several related lines of 35 mm compact viewfinder and rangefinder cameras made by Voigtländer from the 1940s through the early 1970s, equipped...
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is a TTL-metering manual & automatic exposure aperture-priority 35 mm rangefinder camera using Leica M lenses, introduced by Minolta in 1980. Leica and...
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is compatible with night vision devices. Laser rangefinder – The Vector IV mil spec laser rangefinder measures distances up to 6,000 m (6,561.7 yd), and...
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Olympus XA (category Olympus rangefinder cameras)
original XA was a rangefinder camera with a fast 35 mm f/2.8 lens, and aperture priority metering. It was one of the smallest rangefinder cameras ever made...
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Olympus 35RD (category Olympus rangefinder cameras)
The Olympus 35 RD is a 35 mm rangefinder camera manufactured by Olympus in Japan in the 1970s. Lens: 40mm F. Zuiko f/1.7 6 elements Focus range: 0.85...
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Fuji GS645 (category Fujifilm rangefinder cameras)
camera lineup released soon after, the Fuji GA645 series, also has a rangefinder design but offers autofocus. There are three models in the GS645 line...
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additional lightmeter may be added by the cold shoe. When the Zorki 4 rangefinder was introduced in 1956, its contemporaries included the Zorki S, Zorki...
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the amateur film photography sector — similar to a rangefinder camera, but without a rangefinder or viewfinder — for mounting these lenses. In 1999,...
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Jacques Bogopolsky (section 35mm rangefinder)
Jacques Bogopolsky (also Jacques Boolsky or Jacques Bolsey; born Yakov Bogopolsky; December 31, 1895, Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire – January...
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