Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thanx for the review, dick. shots look real good, especially inside. b. On 11-mei-2009, at 15:02, Richard S. Taylor wrote: > I bought a Panasonic G1 and M-4/3rds adapter last week and thought > you would be interested in an initial user's report. Six of the > photos I took with this combination can be found at: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/panasonic+G1/ > or > http://tinyurl.com/o7fnbg > > Since I expect to travel to Japan for the first time this summer, I > wanted a small, lightweight, travel camera with a reasonable sensor > size and capable of producing really nice results. I think I've > found it. > > Some initial impressions: > > * The EVF works fine for manually focussing and framing in dim > light and bright without invoking the magnified view down to about > f4.0. Smaller than that I needed to magnify the view. Since (I > read) it runs at 60 Hz in bright light the finder has no more delay > than a typical DSLR and with the usual anticipation I found I could > catch the peak of the action pretty reliably. I dim light (and at > very small apertures) it slows to 15 Hz and I quickly learned to > slide the camera slight to the right and use my left eye to catch > the action. This works really well and is better, IMO, than > putting an optical finder on the top of the camera. > > * It quickly became apparent that a couple of firmware changes > would be nice to have: > - One-button selection of the magnified view (it now takes two) > - An option to have a magnified spot in the center of the field with > an option to have it on all the time. > > * On my camera, anyway, the front dial exposure compensation > function in Aperture Exposure mode cannot be turned off. This led > to some heavy confusion until I realized what was happening. This > does not happen in Programmed Exposure mode and once I switched to > it my exposures became consistent. If anyone knows of a menu > setting change I could make to fix this, please let me know. > > * The indoor shots were taken at ISO 400 (1st shot) and 800 (latter > two) in a very dark French restaurant. It sure looks to me that > ISO 800 is nicely usable. The outdoor shots were at ISO 200. The > posted pictures were shot in RAW, converted to DNG and processed in > Lightroom with only exposure (to fix the exposure compensation > errors noted above). They all look a little pastel for my taste > and I will probably boost both contrast and saturation in my > workflow on output from this camera. I didn't try higher than > 800. (The food was too good and I got distracted.) > > * All these were taken with the 28 Summicron except the Nobska > photo which was taken with the new rangefinder focussing Cosina 15 mm. > > * The few photos I took with the 14-45 kit lens look pretty nice, > too, but I hardly spent any time with it and can't really comment > beyond that. > > That's it for now. More later, I expect. > > Regards, > > Dick > off-list comments to r.s.taylor at comcast dot net please. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information