Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] Sony cleans up; takes no prisoners.
From: lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:44:18 +0100
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With the GF-1 I struggle to see the screen clearly in bright daylight. This 
has made using Leica lenses on the thing a waste of time. With the 20mm I 
can rely on the AF and there's enough definition for an overall composition, 
with an M lens it's a lottery whether the subject is in focus or not - and 
that includes when the magnifier is used.

Also the performance with wider lenses is poor at the edge of the frame. 
There's a lot of quality drop off. This is with a 1.5 sensor, so I would 
expect anything larger to be even worse unless it uses a system of 
micro-lenses as in the M8/9.

I accept my experience may not be typical.

Steve

On 27 May 2010, at 07:24, Frank Dernie wrote:

> For me it is useless since it has no viewfinder, tried that for a week or 
> two - hated it. Any camera with no viewfinder limits its use to people 
> moving up from a mobile phone or P&S.
> They may not be disappointed.



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