Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.—Ernst Haas

Some time ago, I wrote a facetious post about guide numbers called Guide Numbers: A Bedtime Story. Every now and then I hear forma reader who are looking for more information about Guide Numbers, even though they’re not a big a deal as they were in previous decades, wanting a more serious answer and so here it is.

One of Ansel Adams most famous quotes was that the secret of making great photographs is simply “knowing where to point the camera,” That’s something that is harder than it sounds, especially after schlepping a nine-pound Canon EF 500 f/4.0L IS USM lens, monopod, and camera body combination around California’s Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca all day.

The Epson R-D1 is a digital rangefinder camera introduced in March, 2004 and the first digital rangefinder ever commercially produced.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare… photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.—Bill Brandt