[Leica] advice wanted for carry camera

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)]

Kyle - Are you shooting with your left eye open and just using the EVF for 
framing?  I find the time delay in the EVF very troublesome and learned to 
shoot one eye open on my G-1 for that reason.  

As I have enthused here many times before, the GF-1 with the 20mm lens and 
optical finder is my way to go with it.  Since I leave it on single-point 
focus it works just a Leica M except I don't have to expend calories pushing 
the focus tab around. 

Other than the EVF, I'm with your review 100%.  It's a fantastic camera.  

Regards, 

Dick



On Apr 10, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

>> The optical finder is necessary because I wear bifocals and have
>> to bob my head up and down like a pigeon when using a LCD camera screen. 
>> I'm
> 
> People have complained about the idea of an EVF on the Panasonic GF1, but 
> once you've had a histogram, and your shutter speed and your aperture 
> information in your viewfinder, you won't want to come back. (And how high 
> res does it be, you can open your eye and see the real world if you need 
> to. the viewfinder's just a framing tool and, at times, a focusing tool.) 
> pressing the shutter speed wheel brings up the center of your image at 
> 100% magnification allowing, i think, for more critical focusing than any 
> optical VF will.  The GF-1's viewfinder also has an adjustment wheel, so 
> you can set the focusing on the EVF to match whatever you see through your 
> glasses. You can also put an accessory optical viewfinder on it, but I 
> don't know why you'd want to -- cause you'd have to carry a bunch of them 
> with you if you wanted to change lenses.
> 
> In short, I think the low-res EVF to be significantly more _useful_ than 
> the finest crystal optical viewfinder milled by elves and polished with 
> silk cloths by dedicated optical engineers who spend six months crafting a 
> single element, though it's probably not more beautiful. The GF-1 is also 
> significantly smaller and lighter than my M6.
> 
> My review of the GF-1 which includes two high res images for downloading 
> and inspecting:
> 
>  http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/574473.html
> 
> A post about streetish photography with the GF-1:
> 
>  http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/586744.html
> 
> 
> (One thing I don't like about the GF1 is that when in manual mode the 
> button that switches between shutter speed an aperture has a third thing 
> in there, it might be white balance, so instead of just hitting the 
> button, adjusting, and hitting it again, and ajusting, you have to scroll 
> through this silly third option every time. Though the camera is a lot 
> less than the GF-1)
> 
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