Comments on: Which camera is this?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:34:00 +0000

It definately LOOKS like a Canon G9. However, the G9 does not have a tilted lens.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:26:57 +0000

It looks like a Canon G9.

By: Richard Butler

Richard Butler — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:05:35 +0000

The camera is a mixture of:

Olympus 35 RC rangefinder
Sigma DP1
and a Sony Alpha 350 with Minolta 50mm f/1.4 on it.

Richard - DPReview

By: Flytrap

Flytrap — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:42:05 +0000

Looks like a Leica to me

By: james

james — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:24:40 +0000

That is a Sigma point and shoot with some advanced features, it is a very good camera iq wise but very limited feature wise. It sells for about $1,000 us. Very rare.

By: nate

nate — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:46:11 +0000

what’s the joke? you already know what the camera is? it isn’t a camera at all? pretty idiotic excuse for a joke, don’t you think?

a better joke would have been to go back to the clown barf website template

By: Luís Brás

Luís Brás — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:08:23 +0000

I thought so :-), but don’t leave us in the dark, now. What was the camera, after all?

By: Haje Jan Kamps

Haje Jan Kamps — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:20:24 +0000

Aw, I’m so sorry all - it was all an April’s fools’ joke in collaboration with the amazing DPReview!

By: Djenan

Djenan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:09:21 +0000

Maybe a Leica D-Lux 3?

By: nate

nate — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:46:51 +0000

look at the 3rd pic (whatis-22) it is most definitely an lcd and not a strap. as for it being a leica, it is likely that it is (or a clone, like the rd-1)

By: Sendermen

Sendermen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:59:21 +0000

You’re right, I haven’t seen a DP1 with a swivel display…

By: Andy Piper

Andy Piper — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:52:02 +0000

FILM Leica M - likely M4-2 or M4-P (from the matte black “chrome” finish, lack of visible red dot, and recessed viewfinder - M6 and later have flush viewfinder glass). Angled Leica rewind crank visible on the top corner at this end. Camera with NO meter, so the photographer is looking DOWN at it to set aperture (note left thumb on lens’s aperture ring) and shutter speed using the dials.

The “LCD” is just a tag end of camera strap sticking out where he is gripping the camera with his right hand.

Good joke!

By: poop09

poop09 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:06:45 +0000

the rd1 lcd flips all the way around. behind the lcd, it has an old school exposure diagram like film cameras (which is nice because it protects the lcd from scratches)

By: nate

nate — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:17:23 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLylj3V-EQ&feature=related
YouTube - Sigma DP1 user review

my guess is dp1 sigma, though the epson rd-1 looks like a better match (though it’s an older camers)

By: Sendermen

Sendermen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:52:10 +0000

A Sigma DP1?

By: Gavin

Gavin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:31:18 +0000

It looks like an really old digital camera… My art teacher has one for studio photography.

By: Haje Jan Kamps

Haje Jan Kamps — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:01:59 +0000

What really flummoxed me was that the screen seemed to hinge upwards - what’s the logic in that? Most of the time, if you do need to use a hinged screen, it is to take the photo when holding the camera above your head (so you look up at the display)… Right?

.. unless it is actually a double hinge, so it goes both ways, but it didn’t look like that, somehow.

By: steven

steven — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:52:36 +0000

Sigma DP1 with a photoman lcd screen

By: steven

steven — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:51:44 +0000

Sigma DP-1

By: Rob Barrett

Rob Barrett — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:40:12 +0000

Just an FYI the Olympus e-330 which was released early 2006 had the first live view with a tilting screen.

By: Vincent Janelle

Vincent Janelle — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:58:56 +0000

The new sigma possibly? It’s a digital rangefinder with aps-c sized sensor.

By: Kjetil

Kjetil — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:37:10 +0000

It’s not an R-D1 (or R-D1s which is a firmware-upgraded version of the former). Hinge on LCD is the top edge rather than on the left edge. Rangefinders with brightline viewfinders all have that white window between the normal viewfinder window and the rangefinder window to collect light for the brightlines. Also the top-plate of the epson has edge running a straight line all the way across the front of the camera, so this is not one.

My initial reaction to the first image was to think this might be a Zeiss Ikon body.
http://www.zeiss.com/zeissikon

The guy in the picture looks sort of like one of the faces that pop up in dpreview sample galleries from time to time, though. This being April Fools day and all, let’s say it is a prototype digital Zeiss Ikon with hinged LCD and the 24MP Sony 36×24mm sensor announced earlier this year :-)

By: MikMik

MikMik — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:31:46 +0000

Larry, yes, it seems the LCD tilts the other way. I thought that it could be a visual effect (that it could be to the left) but in the second image it seems I was wrong.
Anyway, i looks like a rangefinder, and I think there are no other rangefinders out there, apart from the R-D1 and R-D1s and Leica M8

By: MikMik

MikMik — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:58:21 +0000

Well, it seems that R-D1 and R-D1s are different cameras, but quite symilar in the look, anyway

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:56:40 +0000

MikMik here’s a picture of the RD-1, doesn’t it’s LCD tilt the other way?

http://www.chaudigital.com/assetts/img/epson_rd1_rear.jpg

By: MikMik

MikMik — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:38:02 +0000

After looking again at your pictures and those of the R-D1, I’m quite sure it is that camera. It has a white square over the lens and a bigger black one to the left of it (it can be seen on your 2nd picture). It has a tilting LCD and manual focus lenses (leica)

By: brendo

brendo — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:30:58 +0000

April Fools?

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:29:05 +0000

Big viewfinder though, looks more like a rangefinder.

By: MikMik

MikMik — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:16:40 +0000

Epson Rangefinder R-D1s ???

By: hlgr

hlgr — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:48:51 +0000

doesnt look to me like a dslr to be honest, maybe something along the lines of a canon g9