[Leica] IMG(s): portrait, 50mm pre-ASPH Summilux on DMC-GF1; plug; ruminations.

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

I agree that the design is kind of dumb; though my first digital was a
Panasonic FZ28 with an 18X zoom that has the word Leica on it and is it
turns out quite good for such an absurd beast.  And the G1/GH1 look exactly
like that line of Panasonics and the 1.5 crop L10 or whatever it is. So they
had a reason, marginally.

And I also concur with your implicit message that the GH1 has priced itself
into a place that a micro four thirds camera that looks like that shouldn't
be.

But when I was looking, with a tight budget, the price differential between
the g1 and the gf1 (in favor of the former by almost 300 bucks), the fact of
their having the same image processing and sensor, and the presence of the
viewfinder, finally convinced me my romance with the look of the gf1 was
unsound. i wish i had been as wise in my assessment of other romances in my
history.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:

> 2010-03-09-18:16:31 Vince Passaro:
> > You crazy cats wouldn't need no cloth over your head if you'd gotten the
> G1
> > or -- apparently with a superior sensor to both though I thought them all
> > the same -- the GH1.  They have viewfinders. They just don't look like
> > rangefinders.
>
> Absolutely true.  The built-in EVFs[1] on the G1 and GH1 are right
> there and far better than the add-on one you can get for the GF1.  But
> those cameras are enough bulkier and heavier (a little, but it seems
> to cross some threshold) that I'd be less likely to toss one in a bag
> just for the halibut.  And I think the faux-pentaprism look is kind of
> silly, and actually likely to get much the kind of reaction from
> people I might point this at as a "real" SLR.  And the GH1 only seems
> to be available bundled with the fancy video-optimized lens for over
> twice what I paid for this.  And I don't expect to buy the bolt-on EVF.
>
> [1] Electronic Viewfinders (for Rabs)
>
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