Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12
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Maybe Oly's IS has improved since the E3. My E520 IS works very very well
(lots of keepers) with legacy manual-focus long lenses, both handheld and on
a monopod. For tripod shots, the manual recommended that the IS be off, if
I recall correctly.
Matt
> From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:45:16 +0000
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] GF-1 v. EP-2
>
> I can not speak for the EP 2 but I have tried the E3 with a panaleica
> 14-150 lens, which is excellent BTW, which has stabilisation. The manuals
> strongly advise against leaving both stabilisations on together, it does
> not work. I preferred body stabilisation off, lens on in this combination.
> The EP1 I tried had pitifully slow AF compared to the Panasonic G1, so I
> bet the GF1 will be better than the EP2.
> I actually think IS is over-rated. It does not compensate for rotary shake
> very well, if at all, so in general I think it is a snapshot or get you
> out the sh*t solution. The E3 was very poor with long lenses and IS on,
> -very- few keepers. The E3 and normal lenses are not really much smaller
> than 35mm stuff, the teles are much smaller so I thought it would be a
> great camera for nature pix when walking my dogs but I got very few sharp
> shots, either AF or IS not working well :-( Better with MF and no IS.
> Not worth carrying at all.
> cheers,
> Frank
>
> On 12 Jan, 2010, at 17:24, Roger Rubin wrote:
>
> > Hi all:
> > Has anyone compared the GF-1 with the EP-2?? The latter has the
> > stabilization in the body. At last nites' LUG meeting in NY we were
> > wondering- what happens if you put a micro 4/3 lens with stabilization
> > on a
> > body with stabilization? Do you get double stabilization?? I have heard
> > that the EP-2 finder is better than that of the GF-1. Any comparisons??
> > vroger
> >
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