RayPA
Ignore It (It'll go away)
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The focal length of the lens remains the same.
The G1 is more accurately described as a 'field of view halver' if that is a word.
Yes. Your 35mm street lens does not become a 70mm portrait lens. It has the FOV of a 70. It's just a crop or a mask of your 35mm FOV.
I can see where crop factors are a turn off, but I've managed with the 1.5x crop on my dSLR. Time to have some digital fun with my collection of LTM and M-mount lenses. I'll deal with all the "negatives" of a camera that's getting great reviews and has great IQ. Look at the resolution and ISO images at DPreview with the kit lens. Now think about all your quality glass cropped to the sweet spot and hacked onto the front of this camera. Folks are getting it for under $700 (camera + kit lens + adapter), while prices hold. Ugly, plastic, evf, for soccer moms, I'm all over it (especially those soccer moms!). 🙂 Have fun G1 owners!
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