Comments on: A Digital Camera for People Who Love Film Cameras – Epson R-D1 Review

By: Michael Snyder

Michael Snyder — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:42:49 +0000

This was such a well written article! It was a pleasure learning more about the unique gravity this camera seems to have.

By: Satyabrata Dutt

Satyabrata Dutt — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:00:14 +0000

Great camera with eqally brilliant review.

Reminds me of the days when I used a Leica, Zeiss Contax IIA, and also Voigtlander Prominent and Vitessa range finder cameras.
Later, migrated to SLR’s.

By: John C Algar

John C Algar — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:41:35 +0000

I’ve never been a 35mm photographer – give me anything between whole-plate down to 2.25″sq any day, and I have to admit, I’ve really struggled with digital over the years as I’ve not been able to reproduce the range of apertures, shutter-speeds, “do” with digital what I once did with analog cameras – and yet I do use Digital, but primarily because up to recentlyish, film has not been available to “the [wo]man in the street” – yet now it is!
A great article by someone who writes so much like myself I honestly wondered whether it had been myself (albeit a younger version) writing it! – but no it wasn’t
The Epson R-D1 sounds as though it’s something missing from my life, although however much I’d like to try that camera, use all of its analog facilities, be reunited with ASA film speeds, fantastic range of6 shutter speeds and ditto apertures, there’s something still missing within my longing for the past, and that is the interchangeability of not so much lenses, but film/digital “backs” that before digital took over, were available for the majority of formats (Think Hasselblad, Bronica, Sinar, to start).
Now, if a film attachment could be made for my mobile phone, that would be a great start, and an amazing way to introduce the masses to film and to everything that that medium is cable of doing – the most vital part being that one would have a physical negative from which prints can be made, irrespective of whether electricity – or rather, the lack of that necessity – means digital images no longer exist.

(Now retired, the author was an Industrial and Architectural Photographer working out of London, UK in the 1960s, and later was Works Photographer in a Cable Manufacturers in Swansea, Wales, UK. Working mainly with cut film, used in dark-slides on Gandolfi and MPP cameras, or roll-film in Rollei and Leica cameras, he is now a young 77, but nowadays works in the holiday accommodation trade, where, with a very capable partner, they run a very successful STR / holiday let in one of the world’s most desirable locations; the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, UK)

By: Si

Si — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:05:46 +0000

Just beautiful photographs! You could never change the ISO of a roll of film half way through anyway. It’s not what you’ve got, it’s how you use it! Well done and a truly warming article. Thank you.

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:15:19 +0000

Nice article on a nice camera.

“the most film camera-like experience in photography today”
Not true of course – the most film camera-like experience is when you shoot a film camera 😉

But, I get it. Digital has great advantages, and the author summed it up perfectly…
“since I am a casual photophile who wants that same analog experience yet with a digital workflow, the R-D1 scratches that itch.”
A much more satisfying click of the shutter, I’m sure, than the latest digital cameras offer.