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Panasonic GF1
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I’ve read the reviews, seems ok. Ticks the important boxes for me.
Anyone own or handle one? Is the raw file good? How does it feel in the hand?
Fintan
They’re going crazy for it over on Talk Photography.
Looks good. Might consider it next year as a walk-around …
Very portable with the 20mm lens. A bit less so with the zoom.
I don’t own one but have often messed about with a demonstration copy in shops, and I go street shooting with a guy who uses one.
It is easy to use, feels fine in the hand for a rangefinder shooter like me. With the tiny lens with f/1.7 and a FOV of a 40mm you have a nice setup for street.I’ll stick to film for a little whilst longer but the GF1 could be the next digi camera I’d get myself. All the main reviewers give it very good marks.
Dpreview says “The GF1 is essentially a G1” and it is the same sensor.
Philip, PI member has the G1
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?p=215143
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?p=218563
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?p=220299Martin
Not that I’m in the market for one of these,
but would there be a reason why I wouldn’t choose the Olympus over this one?Very slow autofocus is the big negative for the Oly, I believe, too slow for most non-static objects.
Slow autofocus wouldn’t be good, but I do like big negatives, so I’m torn….
I suppose the temptation with these things would be being able to use the old OM lenses-
and none of mine are autofocus anyway-I think the slow autofocus come from the fact that the Oly has in-body stabilisation, whereas the Panasonic does not.
I have a number of m-mount lenses I’d love to use, but the FOV is so narrow with a 1/4 frame camera.
There is good manual-focus assist in these cameras, x10 zoom or something.
Here is what a dpreview staff review says about using old Zuiko lenses
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1041&message=33734861Martin
well, the crop factor is 2, so using older 35mm lenses,
you won’t be expecting to go wide-The IS would appear to be an advantage if you weren’t using autofocus-
Small sensors= low magnification= short lenses= massive depth of field-
fine if that’s what you want from a camera, most people do-
perhaps the ability to use faster lenses might redress the balance-There are other lenses available to it too, apart from the OM and other 35mm lenses-
superfast prime movie lenses, for 16mm-
The Zeika Nominar 25mm f/0.95, for example-
do a search on flickr for the tag, it’s amazing that such a small sensor can produce such small depth of field,
and it looks great-jb7 wrote:
The Zeika Nominar 25mm f/0.95, for example-
I think I saw that recently on flickr, taken of/by one of my contacts.
That guy just wants to make sure he doesn’t arrive at a party with the same lens as someone else.Well, if it’s the same person I’m thinking of, Chachahavana,
there’s not much likelihood of that-He does like his fast lenses, and some of his portraits are stunning-
and not just on the smaller formats either-Really not sure that he uses them primarily as a fashion accessory,
though that might be a collateral effect, picked up on by others-Thanks for the replies.
Some more reading on Olly vs Panny
http://www.radiantlite.com/2009/09/olympus-e-p1-vs-panasonic-gf1.html
jb7 wrote:
Not that I’m in the market for one of these,
but would there be a reason why I wouldn’t choose the Olympus over this one?Reviews have the Panasonic coming out slightly better – although the in-camera JPEG rendering is much better in the Oly.
Personally, I just didn’t like the look of the Oly.
Handled one in a shop on sunday. Its very nice. Shutter lag was better than I was expecting.
mmmh
Can you guys live without the viewfinder?
Would be sorely tempted to buy one in a heartbeat, but no viewfinder is a big turn-off.
I have a tendency to lose hot-shoe mounted things, so a shoemounted EVF/ optical viewfinder is a no-no for me.
What are your thoughts..
Damien
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