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Subject: [Leica] panasonic gh1
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:23 -0500
References: <3e7573d40909281120y6e95fe35g276c3d546ca8b8dc@mail.gmail.com> <20090928191458.GX5271@jbm.org>

Jeff,
Do you have a cv 15 or 12 that you have tried on it?Curious about
vingetting.

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:

> 2009-09-28-14:20:03 leo wesson:
> > anyone use/own one?
>
> I'm currently playing with one which I've rented for a week (with the
> 14-140
> lens and an M adapter) to try to figure out for myself:
>
>  - how much of a pain it is to use non-AF lenses, and the quality acheived,
>
>  and
>
>  - how good a camcorder a combo still/video dingus like this seems to be.
>
> Can't say that I've come close to taking its measure for sure, and I don't
> yet
> have sample images ready to post, and (not being a real "video guy") I'm
> sure
> I'm not the best one to evaluate its video goodness...  but what in
> particular
> did you want to know?  Maybe I can try to test whatever it is.
>
> The first thing I tried was using the Leica M lenses I can't seem to focus
> very reliably with my M8 (like the Noctilux, and the 135/3.4).  First
> impression is that getting them precisely focussed is slow and fiddly
> enough
> that it isn't a great match with candid people photography, but the
> pictures
> can look pretty good.  Samples eventually.
>
>  -Jeff
>
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