Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, I know others who like it, too. For me the image is far too pixelated for it to be useful and, as I think I've said here before, I owned mine for about an hour before sending it back . The VF2, OTH, is much, much better. It's a keeper. Regards, Dick On Jan 05, 2012, at 1:40 PM, CB wrote: > 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 >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information