EasyEd
January 9th, 2010, 11:52
Hey All,
...for one of these! You can have your big ol monstrosity Nikon/Canon bodies.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/PanasonicGF1/
(check out the conclusions page - this sentence says it well "Another clue as to how much we liked the GF1 is that people in the office have actually been shelling out their own money to buy them, something almost unheard of in an office with cupboards full of all the latest cameras.")
For a guy who's "current" dream camera is a Leica M9 (but doesn't have an "extra" $7000 for just a body lying around) this is a micro4/3rds camera which has what I mostly want. Ultra portability, performance and some HD video ability. I would get it with the fast 1.7 40mm (35mm equivalent) lens. I have it's big brother - a Panny G1 with 14-45 and 45-200 (28-400 35 mm equivalent) lenses - that I use at work and love it.
Can't help but wonder how some of the longer lenses would be on a body this small. (and I know Oly's EP1 body is even smaller!) Can't wait to see one in person and find out.
Even this camera is not cheap though - about $750 for the body.
Here is a field review of it's use in the Himalayas.
http://craigmod.com/journal/gf1-fieldtest/
His section on "Why I photograph" describes me pretty well also. I'm not one for making picture taking a gear toting expedition/safari. In this day and age post processing becomes much more important just like it always was/is with film black and white. The idea that most of the work is done in composing the picture is simply BS - it is and should be in my opinion much more a 50/50 split. Don't get me wrong the basics need to be there in composing a picture but it shouldn't be everything like it tended to be with color film photography since you had so little control over the rest of the process.
I really like where these cameras are going.
-Ed-
...for one of these! You can have your big ol monstrosity Nikon/Canon bodies.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/PanasonicGF1/
(check out the conclusions page - this sentence says it well "Another clue as to how much we liked the GF1 is that people in the office have actually been shelling out their own money to buy them, something almost unheard of in an office with cupboards full of all the latest cameras.")
For a guy who's "current" dream camera is a Leica M9 (but doesn't have an "extra" $7000 for just a body lying around) this is a micro4/3rds camera which has what I mostly want. Ultra portability, performance and some HD video ability. I would get it with the fast 1.7 40mm (35mm equivalent) lens. I have it's big brother - a Panny G1 with 14-45 and 45-200 (28-400 35 mm equivalent) lenses - that I use at work and love it.
Can't help but wonder how some of the longer lenses would be on a body this small. (and I know Oly's EP1 body is even smaller!) Can't wait to see one in person and find out.
Even this camera is not cheap though - about $750 for the body.
Here is a field review of it's use in the Himalayas.
http://craigmod.com/journal/gf1-fieldtest/
His section on "Why I photograph" describes me pretty well also. I'm not one for making picture taking a gear toting expedition/safari. In this day and age post processing becomes much more important just like it always was/is with film black and white. The idea that most of the work is done in composing the picture is simply BS - it is and should be in my opinion much more a 50/50 split. Don't get me wrong the basics need to be there in composing a picture but it shouldn't be everything like it tended to be with color film photography since you had so little control over the rest of the process.
I really like where these cameras are going.
-Ed-