Epson is updating its digital rangefinder R-D1, and I cry a little tear of joy. It would have been so easy to just shut down that product line. There are probably about 10 people in the world that want this camera, but every one of us want it a lot.

It’s still outside my financial reach, but the only alternative, the Leica M8(.2) is even more expensive. And the Leica doesn’t have those beautiful analog gauges for memory space, white balance, battery and image format.

(images from http://www.epson.jp/products/colorio/photoviewer_digitalcamera/rd1xg/)