Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Dec 29, 2006, at 7:04 PM, Adam Maas wrote: >> Only problem is the L1 locks up when flushing the buffer, unless >> they've >> fixed that in a firmware update. > > Not sure what you mean there. The one I snapped with at the store > seems to do buffered writes, and be fairly quick about it too. Didn't > have enough time to explore it very far, though. > > If you're referring to the DPReview preview of the L1, that was a pre- > production camera and likely had some bugs still.
Luminous Landscape preview actually, as well as the first demo I tried (although that may ahve been the same camera, Reichmann is a local and the first demo I played with was a loner from Panasonic to Henrys). If they've fixed it, I'm very glad. > >> And no normal or wide primes. The shortest prime currently >> available is >> the 50mm f2 Macro, which is a 100 equivalent. Leica has announced a >> 25mm >> f1.4 for it, but that's it. Between that and the poor high-ISO >> performance, the L1 isn't the camera it could be. > > This was ultimately the reason I went with Pentax over the Olympus > E1 .. I prefer fast primes and the Oly 4/3 system is heavily weighted > to zoom lenses at present. However, as I mentioned, I would see this > as a relatively limited system ... just the camera and the two zoom > lenses to cover my focal length desires ... and it would not replace > the Pentax K10D at all. I generally don't work with much over ISO 400 > most of the time, if it does a *decent* job at ISO 800 it would be > fine for a limited use system. The review of the Leica model in > Amateur Photographer was quite enthusiastic, and I understand them to > be a reasonably conservative lot. Gotta admit, that 7-11 (14-22mm-e) zoom is interesting, but I have the same bias towards fast primes you do. > > BTW: it's a thought experiment mostly anyway. The Pentax K10D is a > superb camera, I have most everything I need for my kit already. I'm > right on the cusp of selling off my other two Pentax DSLR bodies, the > Sony R1 and KM A2 to buy a second K10D body and one more lens. > They're the basis of my work. I just like some of the ergonomics and > detail design that went into the PanaLeica SLR, that's all. :-) > > Godfrey > -Adam, Who agrees on how nice the ergonomics are on the L1 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
