Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/03

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Subject: [Leica] Micro 4/3rds
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:10:24 -0400
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Check out the elegant little Panasonic 14-45 micro 4/3 zoom. With OIS and an
'on/off' switch on the side. I cannot say enough good stuff about this zoom
lens (I'm generally not a fan of zoom lenses either).  It's great, which is
probably why they're changing it (I'm certain for the worse).

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Got it. I was under the impression that it was in the body. I usually
> associate VR in lenses with those enormous Nikon lenses on dSLR cameras.
>
> Jeffery
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:
>
> > Jeffery:
> > It's not that IS "doesn't work" in the Pana GF-1 with the 20mm lens: it
> > doesn't exist. Panasonic puts it in the lenses but not in a lens that
> small.
> > Olympus puts it in the body.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>> From what I gather, the image stabilization doesn't work on the
> Panasonic
> >> GF-1 with the 20/1.7 pancake. But I agree with you. And it seems like a
> >> sounder idea to move the sensor rather than shifting the position of
> >> elements in the lens.
> >>
> >> Jeffery
> >>
> >>> Sonny Carter wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I enjoy having the stabilization in the body because it affects ALL
> the
> >>>> lenses I put on the camera.
> >>
> >>
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In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] Micro 4/3rds)
Message from jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Micro 4/3rds)
Message from passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro) ([Leica] Micro 4/3rds)
Message from jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Micro 4/3rds)