Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have been at home Monday and Tuesday, recovering from a bout of severe gastroenteritis that prevented me from travelling to Romania on Monday morning. I am well now, going back to the office this morning. In fact, yesterday afternoon I had sufficient cabin fever to take a drive along the beach in order to play with my old Panasonic GF1 camera. I do not remember when I bought it, but it was launched in 2009. It has been sitting in storage for some years, with the lenses in the possession of my daughter to whom I had also given a Panasonic GF2. But she recently dropped that camera and it seems dead, so I have given her something else, and meanwhile I have the Panasonic lenses back. So, yesterday I went out with the GF1 to see if it had potential as a cycling camera?it is small enough for that and sometimes I may want more focal length options than what the Ricoh GRII provides. Three ?test images? follow, the first with the 14-42mm kit zoom, and the last with the 30mm macro. Just another beach image: https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Xx2KmtS/A Part of the dog beach in El Campello, it is stony but further along there is a sandy part too: https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-j99pTvr/A Late afternoon sun, and the ?skyline? of El Campello: https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-kWLhSrV/A My conclusion: when there is enough light, this is a perfectly capable camera, and especially the 30mm macro is not bad at all. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA