Camera and Coffee

[agentlossing]

That small Lumix rig can produce many mightily impressive photos in the right hands and using RAW.

As the happy user of a now ancient Lumix GF1, I'm amazed as the quality that 14-42 zoom turns out. It's one of the secrets of the Lumix range - or maybe it's well-known and I'm still living under a large rock, as I ofttimes think I do.

Mine often goes with me on my outings to photograph 13th century temples in East and Central Java. I keep it ready for fast and easy candids and it never disappoints or fails to impress with the results I get.

Someone recently told me the Lumix zooms were rebranded as Leica glass for their smaller cameras. Unsure if this is accurate or not. Someone here can please advise.

I also have the Lumix 50-150 zoom but after six years, I've never used it. I should and I will, soon.

Micro 4/3 lenses are almost universally excellent. It's a really undersung aspect of the format. For as small and (mostly) relatively inexpensive as most of them are, they are really very impressive.

I believe the Panasonic lenses which have Leica design input are all marked as such, and typically referred to as "Pana-Leicas" by users. Quite a few of their lineup bear the Leica tag, going as far back I believe as their original 25mm f1.4.

 

[p.giannakis]

Black coffee ...
in a black mug ...
from Black Rifle ..
with a black M5 ...
in a black Mr. Zhou case ...
with a black strap ...
preparing to shoot black and white ...
and process in a blackened room ....

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Thumbs up to all except the black mug. I can't judge if coffee is the right strength.

 

[chuckroast]

Thumbs up to all except the black mug. I can't judge if coffee is the right strength.

That's why God gave you a taster 😉