Micro 4/3 as backup for M8

In another thread Stephen says he will have the M -> micro 4/3rds adapter in stock toward the end of December. I already have one reserved.

I am very excited about trying my M lenses on it, especially the older slower LTM lenses since they are very small and seem like they would fit the camera's diminutive size well. But let's not kid ourselves, not many people have lenses wide enough to make that other than a specialty use M-tele camera. Even a 21mm lens becomes a normal 42mm lens. A 50mm lens becomes a 100m tele lens. The CV 14mm gets boosted to 28mm. Nevertheless, since I do own 14mm, 21mm and 25mm M-lenses, it will be fun to try them out.

I note that Panasonic has also announced an 8mm-16mm zoom lens coming in 2009. Now that should be REALLY interesting.

I couldn't resist and bought a G1 before going on a 10 day trip. The camera has been interesting to use, is all I'll say. The lens did seem to flare badly when pointed at anything with the sun nearby, which I found quite upsetting. So much so that I switched to my M5 backup camera for a day. But I did put a haze filter on the G1 which may be suspect in causing the problem. I haven't had a chance to try it out in sunshine since removing the haze filter but will report back with results later.

/T
 
Tuolumne said:
In another thread Stephen says he will have the M -> micro 4/3rds adapter in stock toward the end of December. I already have one reserved.

I am very excited about trying my M lenses on it, especially the older slower LTM lenses since they are very small and seem like they would fit the camera's diminutive size well. But let's not kid ourselves, not many people have lenses wide enough to make that other than a specialty use M-tele camera. Even a 21mm lens becomes a normal 42mm lens. A 50mm lens becomes a 100m tele lens. The CV 14mm gets boosted to 28mm. Nevertheless, since I do own 14mm, 21mm and 25mm M-lenses, it will be fun to try them out.

I note that Panasonic has also announced an 8mm-16mm zoom lens coming in 2009. Now that should be REALLY interesting.

I couldn't resist and bought a G1 before going on a 10 day trip. The camera has been interesting to use, is all I'll say. The lens did seem to flare badly when pointed at anything with the sun nearby, which I found quite upsetting. So much so that I switched to my M5 backup camera for a day. But I did put a haze filter on the G1 which may be suspect in causing the problem. I haven't had a chance to try it out in sunshine since removing the haze filter but will report back with results later.

/T
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Vivek has been using a home made adapter for his G1 and just posted a nice shot using the CV 15:
http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4194&page=3
I haven't had any flare problems with the kit lens on my G1, but then we haven't had to deal with sunshine around here very much recently.🙂
 
bmattock said:
I don't suppose anyone has thought about adapting Olympus Pen-F lenses to this camera?
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I loved using the old Pen-F and I hope Olympus brings back the clean lines of the Pen-F in a new m4/3 format camera. Should be possible to adapt the Pen-F lenses, but I don't know if an adapter is in the works or not.
 
Just ordered mine off the big auction site.

In red, from a private seller, with the 150 Micro$oft cash back, it came in cheap.

I really would like the adapter to put in my stocking dear Santa!

Dave
 
I removed the UV filter from my Lumix G1 and solved my flare problem. I thought I was using a high quality multi-coated UV filter, but it turned out to be an elcheapo uncoated variety. Live and learn.

/T
 
I had a quick play with a G1 today and was actually quite impressed with the manual focus. There are still things I'd need to get used to - viewing the picture on an electronic screen and the auto zoom when focusing. On the other hand a 50 sonnar would probably be excellent and no issue with focus shift🙂

I can see this as almost a digital rf alternative - even if there are things I'd like to change

Mike
 
Dear forum;

My red G1 came in today .... I took some shots that give a size comparison ...

M6 w/ 50mm summicron, Contax G1, Nikon D300 + Tamron 25-75mm, Canon G9

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The manual focus in good light is excellent. In low light, it looks like a bad high ISO image with a lot of chroma noise, but usable none the less, The kit lens seems pretty sharp, only got a few minutes of use before "Santa" asked my to put it away and save so that I have something for under the tree!

Need the M adapter as a stocking stuffer!

Can't wait to try the 24 F4 and the 40 F1.4 .... now all I want is the 15!

Dave
 
Nice comparisons. The D300 looks huge. The G1 with the 50 Summicron on it, wouldn't be that much bigger than the M6 with the 'cron.
 
M8 with 2-3 lenses and G1 with adapter and 45-200mm zoom in the bag will make for a perfectly versatile travel combo. Also, it might be the better solution for lenses with focus shift than the M8. The Sonnar 50mm starts to look very tempting.
 
D300 is Giant sized

D300 is Giant sized

digitalintrigue said:
Nice comparisons. The D300 looks huge. The G1 with the 50 Summicron on it, wouldn't be that much bigger than the M6 with the 'cron.
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I would add, not only does it look huge, it feels huge. I have used both D50 and D80, and the progression to D300 was not that dramatic. I have held the D40/60, and the feel round, almost like a grapefruit by comparison.

The G1 is much more readily compared to the G9 with a mount adapter. The weight is closer as is the feel and size.

In addition, I would add that I never even had the LCD facing out except when I had to use it to format a card. Much more like the M6 experience than any other camera I have used to date.

Dave
 
Where are the G1 naysayers?
So far, I only find people like me (never having touched one) who are concerned about not being happy with the camera. The few people that have them seem quite pleased.
 
I haven't found any naysayers (who have actually used the camera) in any of the forums that I frequent. It's been quite the opposite actually. And manual focus appears to be not only a non-issue, but a home run...the Canon 50/0.95 shots in the other forum are pinpoint focus. There is no optical RF that will allow accurate focus with a 100mm f/0.95. 🙂
 
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Perhaps they'll change the name of this website to the EVF Forum. 😉

Seriously, I think we'll have to wait until M mount adapters are generally in people's hands to find out what the actual experience of using a G1 day to day with Leica lenses is going to be.
 
Now that I have taken some more time with the G1 I am really liking the camera too, but the high iso is not my favorite, I very much dislike chroma noise, luminous noise I can deal with but chroma noise is just ugly. Would I buy one? No, not in its current form, the high iso just doesnt cut it for me, but its a neat camera none the less, I am really looking forward to the compact type olympus showed before, I hope they add an evf to it too.
 
Avotius said:
Now that I have taken some more time with the G1 I am really liking the camera too, but the high iso is not my favorite, I very much dislike chroma noise, luminous noise I can deal with but chroma noise is just ugly. Would I buy one? No, not in its current form, the high iso just doesnt cut it for me, but its a neat camera none the less, I am really looking forward to the compact type olympus showed before, I hope they add an evf to it too.
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Avotius,
Don't you shoot a GRD1 or something like that?
Isn't the G1 better for noise than the compact digitals?
 
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