Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > Photographs: http://clive.smugmug.com > Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/clive.moss > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >