Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/23

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Subject: [Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1
From: r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 18:44:18 -0400
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Ah, no.  Sad to say, no red or blue but I can manually focus a lens on  
the G1 pretty easily in dim light.  If I could have done that on the  
small Olympus or Nikon DSLRs I would have snapped one up just for the  
optical finder.  My in-focus hit rate on the D40x I used to have was  
about 25% in dim light.  On the G1 it's more like 75 or 80%.

Regards,

Dick
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On May 23, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> I just saw that announced as well. Anyone contemplating using their  
> R glass
> on the four thirds sensor may like to look at the Olympus E620 etc  
> against
> the G1 and GH1 with MFT. Side by side the body sizes are awfully  
> close.
> You get a more conventional dSLR with a better finder too. However  
> they
> don't come in pink .
> 2009/5/24 Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net>
>
>> Panasonic has just announced an R adapter for micro 4/3rds.  It  
>> would be
>> interesting to see how the R lenses would do on the G1.  The light  
>> out of an
>> SLR lens would hit the sensor much more straight on.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>> r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 23, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>>
>> I think we're talking apples and oranges here.  The G1 is  
>> micro-4/3rds.
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Jim Nichols  
>>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark, not to continue the argument, but I have had good results with
>>>> Leica-R lenses on my Oly 4/3.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Geoff
>>>> 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends'
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>>
>>>
>
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1)
Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1)
Message from r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor) ([Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1)