Film Advance Lever/Shutter cocking lever

[peter55]

Well I have made a really good discovery for my street shooting photography. I think Leica should give it serious consideration.
My Epson R-D1 which I just recieved June 25th 2008 has a film advance/shutter cocking lever. Many people on various forums have no idea why and questioned it's usefullness. Since after all it's a digital camera.

Well I have discovered that people, when they see me using the shutter cocking lever are thinking that it's a film advance lever and from this they think I am using an old film camera. They relax and pay me no mind as they don't care about film cameras. I can walk around in a crowd or just in the street and take all the pictures I want and no one looks at me with that look that we all get with our digicams or DSLR's. They do not seem to mind me at all.
One other freature of the Epson R-D1 is that the LCD screen can be twisted around and closed entirely and made to face the back of the camera so you can not see it. So now people are even more convinced that I'm shooting film because there is no LCD screen on my camera. Also there is no glowing LCD image during and after I take a shot. Nope, I just cock the shutter slowly as in the film day's and take another shoot. Clever people at Epson.
The R-D1 digital rangefinder takes all M system lenses and all screw mount lenses with any screw mount to M mount adapter as you set the frame lines manually.