[Leica] IMG(s): portrait, 50mm pre-ASPH Summilux on DMC-GF1; plug; ruminations.

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

You crazy cats wouldn't need no cloth over your head if you'd gotten the G1
or -- apparently with a superior sensor to both though I thought them all
the same -- the GH1.  They have viewfinders. They just don't look like
rangefinders.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:

> Since some of the kids are talking up this little Panasonic body,
> here's an example with Leica glass:
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/4420275979/sizes/o/in/set-72157623411271513/
>
> There are a couple more of Therese surrounding that one in this
> gallery:
>
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157623411271513/
>
> which is pictures taken during WFMU's annual fundraising Marathon.
>
> Since WFMU is the best freeform radio station on the planet, you
> should probably tune in to the web stream, go to the web page, and
> send them some money.  Go ahead, I'll wait.
>
> Back to cameras and lenses... you may remember Therese from some other
> pics I posted with the 75mm Summilux on an M8.  She's unselfconscious,
> and makes for great picturetaking.  Therese tag search:
>
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/tags/therese/
>
> As for this funny little Panasonic DMC-GF1: well, in every case when
> I've taken a similar picture with the GF1 and the M9, the M9 picture
> was dramatically more appealing.  Even (especially!) in low light.
> There can be a sort of pale mealiness to pictures in low light from
> the GF1, which I'm trying to figure out how to avoid.  I think part of
> it is that I'm used to being able to get away with fixing more
> underexposure in post than this sensor will allow.
>
> So why do I even have it, when I have an M9?  Partly as a tiny, light
> backup which will use the same lenses (with the M adaptor I just leave
> on there);  partly to use with longer lenses or longish big-aperture
> lenses, which I can use with some confidence about focus, and which
> act as if they have a magical 2x tele converter on them which doesn't
> reduce the maximum aperture;  partly to subect to abuse (snow and such)
> I don't want to subject the M9 to;  stuff like that.  Oh, and it's fun.
>
> I haven't even bought any of the real native lenses for it.  Maybe I
> never will.
>
> The DMC-GF1 with the pre-ASPH 35mm Summicron on it is a sweet little
> small light package.
>
> And here's my take on the screen-on-the-back thing: it's obviously not
> a rangefinder, but it doesn't even feel like an SLR to me either -- it
> feels for all the world like a teensy little no-movements view camera.
>
> You see the picture in a bright little window;  if you want to focus
> accurately, you need to use a loupe (in this case electronic);  the
> whole process is a little bit slower than we're used to these days;
> and if you're out in the bright day, you should throw a cloth over
> your head.
>
>  -Jeff
>
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