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I am left-eyed, left-footed, and always right-handed from birth. We can all be different.
I take some issue with the glowing praise of rangefinder cameras over the slr. True, it CAN be less obtrusive, but this is only in terms of noise. The claim that a rangefinder can compose better than a slr camera is as incredible to me, as is news of Martians landing on Earth and going straight to Buckingham Palace, where they ask for fish and chips, please.
I've lovingly used several rangefinder cameras over the years, and still have some, but no rangefinder composes better than a slr camera. Just to say/write the words, makes me feel in danger of being carted away by the men in white coats.
My favourite cameras I've used have been the Olympus OM1-n, and the Mamiya C33.
For speed of use, and critical composition, the slr wins. For friendly street portraits, the twin lens reflex was very hard to beat.
Also, regarding the OM1-n, in black especially, it was small and did not engender negative responses. That's my experience.
I have used mechanical only cameras for 99% of all the time I have ever used film cameras (I've never owned a digital camera), so it's not that I'm voting for modernity, but just saying that in composition, the rangefinder does not win, nor for speed of use.
Please feel free to flame away at me; It is what I expect from the rangefinder brigade (please remember that I am a user too; its just obvious that I don't sing from the same hymn sheet).