Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/17

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Subject: [Leica] Panasonic GF1
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:38:28 -0700
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I'll be really interested to hear about your experience with both the
viewfinder and the M adaptor. What's the crop ratio for the M lenses?

How good is the image stabilization? Is the shutter response fast?
This looks like it might be a good cycling camera for me instead of a
G11. I like that it shoots video also.

Thanks for sharing your observations.

Adam

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Clive Moss <clive.moss at gmail.com> wrote:
> A few weeks ago I thought that the GF1 looked interesting. I placed a
> preship order on Amazon for the kit with the 20mm f1.7 just to get in line,
> thinking that I would cancel as the time gets closer. Amazon usually send a
> "will ship soon" message as the time nears. Having waited 9 months for for
> an 18-200 Nikon ?a while ago, I did not want to go through the same kind of
> wait again and I wanted something small and light, but with a semi
> respectable size sensor.
> So, Amazon sent me a shipping notice last week with no prior warning, and I
> got my hands on it on Sunday.
>
> First impressions:
>
> ? - Feels great
> ? - Initial snaps look good, needs a real vieewfinder
> ? - Instruction Manual is about the worst I have ever seen - but it does
> ? come in four languages
>
> Now that I am beginning to get out from under the backlog of things that
> should have been done over the summer but were not, I should be able to
> exercise it more.
>
> A Leica M adapter and 40mm viewfinder are on their way from Cameraquest.
>
> --
> Clive
> Blog: ?http://clive.moss.net/blog
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>
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