Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In my experience with the Panasonic GF-1 and now the GX-1, they are very rangefinder-like if you use them that way. Snap an optical finder into the hot shoe, set the camera to center-point focus only, put the point you want to focus on in the middle of the finder, half-press the shutter, reframe, push the shutter the rest of the way down. Piece of cake, and I can do it in far less time than I can manually focus a M-camera. 90% of the time it's spot-on, even at f1.7 or f1.4. With no center dot in the optical finder as an aiming device I have to guess at the center and think about parallax, so I miss sometimes, but 90% of the time it's perfect. Anyone who has used a LTM Leica should feel right at home. The GF-1 focuses in about a quarter of a second, the GX-1 in about a tenth and there is essentially no shutter lag after focus. I don't like EVFs much, but if used as aiming devices only you can work with them. The new Pinpoint Focus option in the GX-1 is interesting, though, but would require the use of an EVF. I'm anxious to try it with some of my Leica lenses. Regards, Dick On Jan 05, 2012, at 12:47 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Richard Taylor wrote: > >> All of a sudden we're getting a whole bunch of RF-like large sensor >> cameras that are opening all kinds of doors for those of us who still >> have a bunch of Leica lenses sitting in a drawer and just refuse to spend >> $7K on an M9 body. > > Except they're not at all RF-like. > (except in the physical size of the camera) > > When speaking of RF's we're talking about a viewing/focusing system; > which none of the cameras under discussion have. > > And it remains to be seen whether any of these other view systems > will work in any way close to the precise, quick focusing > of a well calibrated RF with manual focus lenses. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information