Godfrey, Thanks for all the comments on the G1. I've been reading your impressions of it, and it seems to me that it would be a great complement to the M8. When m43 was first announced, I thought I'd wait for Olympus to come out with something without a viewfinder, with just a screen, because I want somethink like a P&S, with a biggish sensor, and interchangeable lenses. Now I'm not so sure--I might go for a G1 soon.
Cheers, j On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 1, 2009, at 4:44 AM, Anthony Farr wrote: > >>> Until the light levels get very low, it completely compensates for the >>> stopped down iris. At the limits it gets noisy and eventually gives up >>> the ghost, but conditions like that would have an optical viewfinder >>> too dark to see long before. >>> >> I had a short hands-on viewing of a G1 a couple of days ago and was quite >> impressed. Under the flouro lighting of the store interior I found that >> the >> finder had a slight soft strobing effect. We have 50Hz power here, and I >> notice that its EVF has a 60 fps refresh rate, which coincidentally (or >> not)matches the 60Hz that most countries supply their electricity at, >> regardless of the voltage. > > Most of the stores have long, parallel flourescent 60hz fixtures here which > can cause the same soft strobing effect, occasionally. I don't see it at all > around my apartment, however, which is lit entirely with the coiled > flourescent bulb replacements. Except in the kitchen where if I run a > sequence of exposures with my K10D at 1/125th sec or faster I can see color > and density shifts frame by frame caused by the overhead parallel > flourescent lighting of similar type. > > It probably has more to do with the specific lighting sources than anything > else. It's certainly not more than a minor and occasional annoyance. :-) > >> Godfrey's comments about the G1's suitability for candid portraiture, >> especially restless children, will be interesting. > > I have done a little bit of people work with the G1 so far, and find it a > superb performer. But most of my shooting in this vein has been with adapted > manual lenses (the Pentax M50/1.4 and Nikkor 20/3.5) so if you're looking > for AF performance and responsiveness, I can't say too much there yet. > > However, I will say that the AF system is astonishingly accurate on > portraiture with both the Summilux-D 25mm f/1.4 and the standard 14-45 > lenses, wide open. Set the AF to 'face detect' mode and it identifies and > tracks faces in the field of view with uncanny accuracy and nails the eye as > critical focus point. For a portrait shooter, set the camera on a tripod, > hook up the remote release, frame the subject and shoot away ... the hit > rate will be better than 95% perfect! > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
