[Leica] OT GF1

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

See now once again I have to marvel at the un-hip grooviness of my G1
because its Already Included and Superior Viewfinder (AISV) has a little
electronic detector on it that knows if you're up against it and looking
through it or not. As soon as you pull your head away the review or the live
image appears on the screen below. Put your eye up to the EVF again and the
image is already in there waiting for you....

Occasionally this feature messes you up if you're using the swivel screen
and holding the camera up at some funny angle because  you'll lose your live
view if your sleeve passed over the EVF mount or something; but if you're
doing a lot of that you can go into the menu and turn the feature off and
manually control whether the view is on the screen or in the EVF.

Can you guys use the 10x zoom for focussing in the stand alone EVF for the
GF1? Or just on the screen?

V

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> Well yes, I am sure there is a menu option for turning off the instant
> review, but I don't want to. I like the instant review, whether on the GF-1
> or the Leica. It allows me a quick glance at the screen to make sure the
> exposure was more or less OK etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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> On Mar 20, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:34 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Steve,
> >>
> >> I like the viewfinder. I initially tried using a 40mm optical finder
> with my 20mm lens, but of course then you do not see where the camera is
> focusing, and since I shoot a lot at f1.7 this matters to me. So I bought
> the EVF, and while it is not perfect, it certainly does the job.
> >>
> >> One thing that I find annoying with the EVF is that it when it is turned
> on it also functions as the playback screen. In other words, you can use
> either the EVF or the LCD but not both.  What I would like is to use the 
> EVF
> for taking the picture but the LCD for the instant review afterwards. I 
> hope
> a future firmware upgrade will make this possible.
> >
> >
> > can you turn off review and still use the EVF for taking the picture?
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> Nathan Wajsman
> >> Alicante, Spain
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 20, 2010, at 5:26 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
> >>
> >>> In using the Panasonic GF1 with the Pana 14-45mm zoom lens, in auto
> mode,
> >>>
> >>> how useful is the electronic viewfinder to comfortable, reliable
> function ?
> >>>
> >>> (especially if one likes viewfinders, and compared to a 40mm optical
> viewfinder with interpolation/extrapolation ?)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Steve
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