[Leica] Leica lenses on the Pana G1 - a few photos from today

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I need to adjust the unsharp mask a bit in my eyeballs.
I wish a machine which cleans contact lenes could be made hand held so we
can use it to clean our eyeballs themselves as we set at our desk.

I think with a lot of digital the whole thing relies on a bit of unsharp or
sharp sharpening. Without which we don't know so much what's going on.
Its like the thing is out of focus till we do that.
A layer of not water based Vaseline.

Its great to see two LugNuts combining forces for the greater Leica good.

All you need now is Robin Hoods PR guy.

:)

mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: H&ECummer <cummer@netvigator.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:50:04 +0800
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Leica lenses on the Pana G1 - a few photos from today
> 
> Hi Luggers,
> Ray Tai and Chris Topher and I met at the China Tee Club today and
> mated my L > M4/3rds adapter with
> Chris's black G1. We used my 15 Heliar, the 24 Elmarit, the 35
> Summilux Asph, The Tri-Elmar, the 50mm Summilux Asph,
> the 90 Summicron APO, my old 135 Elmar (from 1964) and Chris's 50mm
> Zeiss f1.5.
> 
> Pictures taken with some of these lenses can be found at:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/M+Lenses+to+Micro+4-3rds/
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/9bh9zx
> 
> The EVF is better than I remember it at Photokina. Under fluorescent
> lights
> there is strobing in the viewfinder but with daylight or other
> lighting the EVF works quite well.
> A Leica rangefinder viewfinder it isn't but still it is usable. You
> have to set the G1 to fire
> the shutter without a lens on the camera and that takes some digging
> through the instruction
> book to find the menus within menus.
> What is very appealing is that in manual focus you touch the left
> arrow of the control wheel on the back
> and that brings up a 10X magnification box. You can move the box over
> the area you want
> to enlarge and then push the set button in the center of the control
> wheel to enlarge that section.
> You have to be quite fast to fix focus because the magnification shuts
> off in about 3 seconds. It is easiest to use
> with wide angle lenses because the magnified camera shake is not so
> great. For telephotos like the 90 Cron and the
> 135 Elmar - the shaking of the hand held camera is so magnified that
> it is hard to fix focus before the magnification
> turns off. Chris believes a firmware upgrade has already been
> announced to allow the user to extend the timing
> of the magnification.
> I didn't get to take the camera out for any street shooting so I can't
> comment on its use there and I didn't have
> time (nor inclination) to work through all the camera's features and
> menus.
> Still, as you can see from the pictures it performs pretty well -
> although we did notice that white balance when set to auto
> fluctuated quite a bit from shot to shot.
> A feature which appeals to me for street shooting is the moveable view
> screen on the back but I will have to test it
> another day.
> Bottom line: Would I buy one? Could be, but I wasn't so blown away
> that I ran next door to get one today. Still, I might
> when the new prices fall a bit more.
> Comments and questions welcome.
> Cheers
> Howard
> 
> 
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