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I just bought my first Leica D-Lux :D and I'm very excited about this. Already took some amazing photos with it! Now, I'm interested in buying a decent range finder to go with it, but since I'm all spend-out, I'd like to find something decent, but not very expensive. This Simmons sounds promissing, and it's quite affordable. Is it possible that it's decent enough to go with my Leica :D Should I consider something else? Has anyone here used it?

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According to the Amazon page linked to in the page you cite, the Lrf600 has a minimum distance of 10m and is accurate to 1m.

 

That makes it useless for general photography, which requires much greater accuracy at much closer distances (e.g. accurate within 1cm at a distance of 1m).

 

Even a rangefinder better suited to general photographic distances (e.g. Leica DISTO D2 Laser Distance Measurer - Amazon.com), will mostly be wasted because the manual focusing system on a camera such as a D-Lux doesn't allow precise distances to be set. Unless you have specialised uses in mind, you won't get better results than with intelligent use of the camera's autofocusing.

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