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Yesterday — 28 October 2025Main stream

This Explainer on How a Rangefinder Camera Works Is The Best We’ve Seen

28 October 2025 at 19:33

A diagram shows the internal optical path of a camera’s viewfinder system, with colored lines illustrating light passing through various lenses, prisms, and mirrors inside the camera body.

Photographer and technology expert David Imel recently published a video discussing why Leica got rid of the most iconic part of its M series cameras in the new M EV1: the rangefinder. But to do that, he first had to explain what a rangefinder is and how it works, and in doing so created the best modern breakdown of the technology that is very easy to understand.

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Pixii Is Teasing Its First Redesigned Digital Rangefinder Camera

24 October 2025 at 20:58

A close-up view of a black camera in low light, highlighting the top dials and a faintly glowing orange ring, with the lens and viewfinder partially visible.

French camera company Pixii is teasing a brand new camera. It will be the company's fourth model, following the Pixii, Pixii+, and Pixii Max, all of which shared the same basic form factor. The new camera looks much different.

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