Jonas B wrote: jvarszegi wrote:
It is worth noting that the more stunning pictures here are posted at a small size. They may also have been shot with different lenses, I wouldn\'t know. Note also that if you put a telephoto on the G1, it isn\'t nearly so small any more. It\'s already not much smaller than a small DSLR body.
Hi there,
...is the glass half full or half empty?
It\'s not that the G1 is not a great little camera. It\'s just not down to roughly the size of a pocketable point and shoot yet, which would be heaven. It certainly is small. I\'m just asking how much functionality the smallness of m43 actually has added so far, in this very first implementation. I also look forward to the 20 f/1.7.
Jonas B wrote:
The ability to use all sorts of adapted lenses also make it possible to get a camera with the equivalent of a 100mm lens with the speed of 1.4 and the DOF of 2.8
It won\'t be truly equivalent to a FF mounted with a 50m at f/1.4, but with the DOF of f/2.8, because the sensor is one-quarter the size. However, it will certainly be nice. A stabilized body would help to offset the disadvantages of such a camera, and begin to make more event shooters sit up and take notice, especially if the AF is accurate and fast enough at such wide apertures.
The challenge will be to find fast lenses that are very small, so that one doesn\'t lose the advantage of small size. But isn\'t it true (sorry if I\'m uninformed on this) that adapters for most non-m43 lenses will be fairly thick as well?
Jonas B wrote:
The image quality is what you get from a 4/3 sensor. It is not the best in the world but it will do just fine in many cases.
Yep. I am pleased by the quality of images the sensor can produce, and have been saving links whenever I find them. I should just buy one already. Still waiting to see what Olympus comes out with.
Jonas B wrote: jvarszegi wrote:
It is worth noting that the more stunning pictures here are posted at a small size. They may also have been shot with different lenses, I wouldn\'t know. Note also that if you put a telephoto on the G1, it isn\'t nearly so small any more. It\'s already not much smaller than a small DSLR body.
Hi there,
...is the glass half full or half empty?
It\'s not that the G1 is not a great little camera. It\'s just not down to roughly the size of a pocketable point and shoot yet, which would be heaven. It certainly is small. I\'m just asking how much functionality the smallness of m43 actually has added so far, in this very first implementation. I also look forward to the 20 f/1.7.
Jonas B wrote:
The ability to use all sorts of adapted lenses also make it possible to get a camera with the equivalent of a 100mm lens with the speed of 1.4 and the DOF of 2.8
It won\'t be truly equivalent to a FF mounted with a 100m at f/1.4, and with the DOF of f/2.8, because the sensor is one-quarter the size. However, it will certainly be nice. A stabilized body would help to offset the disadvantages of such a camera, and begin to make more event shooters sit up and take notice, especially if the AF is accurate and fast enough at such wide apertures.
The challenge will be to find fast lenses that are very small, so that one doesn\'t lose the advantage of small size. But isn\'t it true (sorry if I\'m uninformed on this) that adapters for most non-m43 lenses will be fairly thick as well?
Jonas B wrote:
The image quality is what you get from a 4/3 sensor. It is not the best in the world but it will do just fine in many cases.
Yep. I am pleased by the quality of images the sensor can produce, and have been saving links whenever I find them. I should just buy one already. Still waiting to see what Olympus comes out with.
Jan 01, 2009 at 05:38 PM
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Still waiting to see what Olympus comes out with.