On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Adam, > > Since now you are shooting one too, thanks for showing us some work - > this looks quite nice. What I have seen so far, seems to be very > good. I would also like to hear your feelings on usage of the > camera, especially the electronic viewfinder in various situations. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce >
The EVF is quite good. Contrary to DPReview, the low-light performance of the EVF is excellent, there's a small zone of illumination where it's inferior to an optical viewfinder (It gets noisy and starts lagging in low light) but that zone is small and the EVF continues to be usable in light where focusing with an optical VF is pretty much a crapshoot. Overall handling's excellent. I love the flip-out LCD, it's the ultimate waistlevel. I actually find myself using it a lot. IQ is quite good, although it seems the ISO ratings are pessimistic (I'm getting exposures corresponding to ISO 160 when set to ISO 100, and ISO 5000 when set to ISO 3200). It seems Panasonic didn't want to deal with the hassle of people complaining about the base ISO being 160 instead of 100 so they just labelled it 100 instead and worked up from there. The sensor resolution is pretty good and I'm looking forward to trying out some better lenses in the future, the kit lens performs well but the camera's got a lot more in it when matched with better glass. In fact I'm considering selling off some or all of my Nikon kit to fund some M-mount lenses for the G1 (And a Bessa to use them on film too). For what I mostly shoot (cityscapes, candids, low-light variations of the same) I do need soem fast glass, but it's much more versatile than my D300. Oh, and the click-wheel takes the single-wheel interface from livable to excellent. It's much better than using button+wheel controls. However the buttons are mostly chiclets. Not very glove friendly. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
