Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/05

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Subject: [Leica] The Fuji XPRO-1
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:02:39 -0500
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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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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