Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] GF-1 v. EP-2
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:45:16 +0000
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I can not speak for the EP 2 but I have tried the E3 with a panaleica 14-150 
lens, which is excellent BTW, which has stabilisation. The manuals strongly 
advise against leaving both stabilisations on together, it does not work. I 
preferred body stabilisation off, lens on in this combination.
The EP1 I tried had pitifully slow AF compared to the Panasonic G1, so I bet 
the GF1 will be better than the EP2.
I actually think IS is over-rated. It does not compensate for rotary shake 
very well, if at all, so in general I think it is a snapshot or get you out 
the sh*t solution. The E3 was very poor with long lenses and IS on, -very- 
few keepers. The E3 and normal lenses are not really much smaller than 35mm 
stuff, the teles are much smaller so I thought it would be a great camera 
for nature pix when walking my dogs but I got very few sharp shots, either 
AF or IS not working well :-( Better with MF and no IS.
Not worth carrying at all.
cheers,
Frank

On 12 Jan, 2010, at 17:24, Roger Rubin wrote:

> Hi all:
> Has anyone compared the GF-1 with the EP-2?? The latter has the
> stabilization in the body. At last nites' LUG meeting in NY we were
> wondering- what happens if you put a micro 4/3 lens with stabilization on a
> body with stabilization? Do you get double stabilization?? I  have heard
> that the EP-2 finder is better than that of the GF-1. Any comparisons??
> vroger
> 
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