Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/23

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Subject: [Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 10:33:47 +0800
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Damn, no pink?!

On May 24, 2009, at 6:33 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> I just saw that announced as well. Anyone contemplating using their  
> R glass
> on the four thirds sensor may like to look at the Olympus E620 etc  
> against
> the G1 and GH1 with MFT. Side by side the body sizes are awfully  
> close.
> You get a more conventional dSLR with a better finder too. However  
> they
> don't come in pink .
> 2009/5/24 Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net>
>
>> Panasonic has just announced an R adapter for micro 4/3rds.  It  
>> would be
>> interesting to see how the R lenses would do on the G1.  The light  
>> out of an
>> SLR lens would hit the sensor much more straight on.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>> r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 23, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>>
>> I think we're talking apples and oranges here.  The G1 is  
>> micro-4/3rds.
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Jim Nichols  
>>> <jhnichols at lighttube.net
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark, not to continue the argument, but I have had good results with
>>>> Leica-R lenses on my Oly 4/3.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Geoff
>>>> 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends'
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>>
>>>
>
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THEIN Onn Ming
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] M LENSES ON PANASONIC G1)
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