jonoslack
Active member
Hi there WillWhat might be interesting to see if the cache of the rangefinder is a generational thing. Will millennials and the generation following them still think of photography in terms of the rangefinder? Who knows. Right now, the image of the rangefinder still has value. But it is built on historical value. Could the historical connection to the rangefinder as a tool to a specific genre of photography fade and Leica fade with it? Not sure, but it would be sad to see the optical rangefinder disappear altogether, even though I would probably never own a Leica.
Certainly here new professionals are discovering the wonder of the rangefinder. People like Sarah Lee are at least relatively young and have only discovered it since the M9.
I went to a Leica meet group in London last week, and although there were certainly a few old farts like me . . . there were also quite a lot of young photographers.
My feeling is that there is a new generation coming up, and that the wierd ability to see around the picture, together with the lovely lenses is pretty timeless.