[Leica] The Fuji XPRO-1

[curtisbliss at yahoo.com (CB)]

The Electronic VF for the GF-1 isn't as bad as some say either.? I like the 
one I did finally buy.

C

From: Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2012 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Fuji XPRO-1

In my experience with the Panasonic GF-1 and now the GX-1, they are very 
rangefinder-like if you use them that way.? Snap an optical finder into the 
hot shoe, set the camera to center-point focus only, put the point you want 
to focus on in the middle of the finder, half-press the shutter, reframe, 
push the shutter the rest of the way down.? 

Piece of cake, and I can do it in far less time than I can manually focus a 
M-camera.? 90% of the time it's spot-on, even at f1.7 or f1.4.? With no 
center dot in the optical finder as an aiming device I have to guess at the 
center and think about parallax, so I miss sometimes, but 90% of the time 
it's perfect. Anyone who has used a LTM Leica should feel right at home. 

The GF-1 focuses in about a quarter of a second, the GX-1 in about a tenth 
and there is essentially no shutter lag after focus.? 

I don't like EVFs much, but if used as aiming devices only you can work with 
them.? The new Pinpoint Focus option in the GX-1 is interesting, though, but 
would require the use of an EVF.? I'm anxious to try it with some of my 
Leica lenses.? 

Regards, 

Dick



On Jan 05, 2012, at 12:47 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> 
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Richard Taylor wrote:
> 
>> All of a sudden we're getting a whole bunch of RF-like large sensor 
>> cameras that are opening all kinds of doors for those of us who still 
>> have a bunch of Leica lenses sitting in a drawer and just refuse to spend 
>> $7K on an M9 body.
> 
> Except they're not at all RF-like.
> (except in the physical size of the camera)
> 
> When speaking of RF's we're talking about a viewing/focusing system;
> which none of the cameras under discussion have.
> 
> And it remains to be seen whether any of these other view systems
> will work in any way close to the precise, quick focusing
> of a well calibrated RF with manual focus lenses.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> george at imagist.com
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> 
> 
> 
> 
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