Author Topic: "a farewell to arms" (Read 567 times)

tamoio · « **on:** September 06, 2010, 02:33:25 PM »

(with apologies to Ernie H.)

. . .its been fun, sort of asummer fling, I loved your funky lil' EVF and blue blue skies, but I'm afraid it might be time to say goodbye little E-P2, sniff.

Pulled the trigger on a new GH1 about 3 minutes ago, Olympus bodies are now all on waivers.

mikmas101 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 06, 2010, 03:19:58 PM »

I love my humble GI and it does lots that my E-P1 won't....but the crusher is the lack of in-body IS with MF lenses.

For that reason alone the eepee stays in my bag (and the fact that she's gorgeous and the GI looks like a hunk of black plasticine)

lisandra · « **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2010, 04:52:38 PM »

Quote from: tamoio on September 06, 2010, 02:33:25 PM

(with apologies to Ernie H.)

. . .its been fun, sort of asummer fling, I loved your funky lil' EVF and blue blue skies, but I'm afraid it might be time to say goodbye little E-P2, sniff.

Pulled the trigger on a new GH1 about 3 minutes ago, Olympus bodies are now all on waivers.

welcome to the club, multiaspect rules, ISO 100 is crisp clear, and extra optical zoom is actually great. AVOID ISO 3200 at all costs, noise I can deal with, but the banding...

tamoio · « **Reply #3 on:** September 06, 2010, 05:24:10 PM »

Quote from: mikmas101 on September 06, 2010, 03:19:58 PM

I love my humble GI and it does lots that my E-P1 won't....but the crusher is the lack of in-body IS with MF lenses.

For that reason alone the eepee stays in my bag (and the fact that she's gorgeous and the GI looks like a hunk of black plasticine)

I'm curious if I will really notice a difference. I shoot predominantly with legacy glass but I've never been afraid of monopods and tripods.

My real motivation is all about HDSLR and rigging up GH1s (or GH2s when they become available) as B cameras.

Centauri27 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 15, 2010, 11:27:02 AM »

Quote from: mikmas101 on September 06, 2010, 03:19:58 PM

For that reason alone the eepee stays in my bag (and the fact that she's gorgeous and the GI looks like a hunk of black plasticine)

Well said, mikmas! Couldn't agree with you more. In-body IS was (one of) the deciding factor for me. But different strokes for different folks!

tamoio · « **Reply #5 on:** September 15, 2010, 05:58:04 PM »

Quote from: Centauri27 on September 15, 2010, 11:27:02 AM

Quote from: mikmas101 on September 06, 2010, 03:19:58 PM
For that reason alone the eepee stays in my bag (and the fact that she's gorgeous and the GI looks like a hunk of black plasticine)
Well said, mikmas! Couldn't agree with you more. In-body IS was (one of) the deciding factor for me. But different strokes for different folks!

I don't own a single Panasonic lens. I'm thinking seriously about the 7-14mm but I can't imagine I would need much IS with those focal lengths. If Panasonic ever made something like the Olympus 50-200 f2.8-3.5 I would be all over it, thats a range that really benefits from IS.

I think the ergonomics of the GH1 are better than the Pen, its certainly not much bigger if at all (I can tell because it fits into same compartments in my bags as the Pen did). It would be nice if it had the metal chassis-rubber coating that most Pro cameras have these days. But you know. . .its exactly the same with Panasonic's big video cameras, my biggest objection to all of them was that they felt so plastic-y

voyager · « **Reply #6 on:** September 16, 2010, 11:05:07 AM »

Well hopefully you'll enjoy it! Look at it this way, you can help bring some life back to our Panasonic board!

tamoio · « **Reply #7 on:** September 17, 2010, 04:10:20 PM »

I used the GH1 this morning set up as a "B" camera for a standup outdoors. I used a Canon FD 50mm f1.4 mounted on my favorite Polish adapter.

It was about 10am and the sun was fairly low angle but I still had a helluva time getting an exposure, I ended up using F4 and iso 100 (this is actually posing a big question-mark, I know how to use NDs but I don't know how I would ever mount one on a theoretical 7-14mm with that built in lens-shade).

I just got done looking over the footage and I can only say . . .wow. This is an entirely different ball game from the E-P2. This camera shoots great video (and this is without the hack).

"a farewell to arms"