Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/24

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Subject: [Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:38:50 +1000
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Hi Frank sounds like you're happy with that one. Cool. I think that the
Olympus micro four thirds will be very interesting when it hits the market
too.
I do have some issues personally with the G1 as sold here but then its all
academic for me of course. I'm pretty fond of the M8 finder and manual
focussing.

2009/5/24 Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>

> Hi Geoff,
> I bought a G1 on whim in the duty free shop. I own an Olympus E510 bought
> to use my old R lenses on. Th viewfinder is admittedly optical on the 510
> but it is tiny and relatively dim. On the G1 it is sensibly large and has a
> feature which magnifies the central portion of the image when manual
> focussing. If using a manual stop down lens the auto brightness feature of
> the EVF means it is still easy to compose and focus, though it does get
> sparkly in really low light. It has been reported that Panasonic cameras
> have less strong AA filters than Panasonic. It is -much- better than camera
> than the Olympus in almost every way, IME.
> cheers,
> Frank
> PS The Noctilux is a 100mm-like f1 portrait lens...
>
>
> --
> 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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