G1 major nit...

[Terry]

Yes, but it already auto-defaults to none in burst capture mode

OK my turn for a duh....I reset mine when not in burst and didn't realize that it is grayed out as soon as you go into burst mode.

 

[Amon]

Yes, you are right. After 4 frames, the wait time is frustrating. I was too much optimistic.

 

[olyinaz]

"..but I wonder if one of those Voightlander viewfinders that sits in the flash shoe would work well for framing.."

I just tried this with a 35mm Voightlander Kontur and also a Leica 50mm clip-on. Alignment is very good but the field of view is, of course, fixed.

The Kontur has a useful small black central spot which assists aiming.

Those are so small/light that I'd certainly want to give it a try!

Cheers,
Oly

 

[Lili]

Interesting, my Fuji Bridgecam, the S6000fd, has burst mode. Tried 'top 3' and it shot three very quickly, the LCD/EVF freezes with preview for each for about 1/10 sec. The image movement no longer flows but is staccato fashion. So we know it can be different. BTW this is one reason bridgecams are not ideal action cameras

 

[Bhakti-rider]

Jack, if it doesn't go without saying that you would, if you learn anything from Panasonic about that viewfinder issue, please start a new thread to share that with other G1 owners...

 

[Jack]

Jack, if it doesn't go without saying that you would, if you learn anything from Panasonic about that viewfinder issue, please start a new thread to share that with other G1 owners...

I certainly will, but at present I have ZERO connections to anybody at Panasonic...

 

[marknorton]

The issue I think is that it's not possible for the camera to provide live view while a captured image is being read out of the sensor so that in continuous mode, less and less time is available to display the live-view image. Once you run out of buffer space, everything is gated by card write speed.

For single shot mode, switch off auto-review completely and the delay before you get the viewfinder back is quite short. Not D3 short, of course, but the body is, say, 1/10 of the price so what is it reasonable to expect?

 

[Lili]

The issue I think is that it's not possible for the camera to provide live view while a captured image is being read out of the sensor so that in continuous mode, less and less time is available to display the live-view image. Once you run out of buffer space, everything is gated by card write speed.

For single shot mode, switch off auto-review completely and the delay before you get the viewfinder back is quite short. Not D3 short, of course, but the body is, say, 1/10 of the price so what is it reasonable to expect?

What Mark said is sorta the point I was making with my post here about my Fuji, I suspect that due to the nature of the EVF/LCD, EVIL or Bridgecamera, this will be an issue with any/all of them. Of course in shooting video this does not happen, if the resolution gets good enough on the GHD perhaps a video capture might work well in these situations?

 

[Terry]

Well Panasonic folks read the forums and there have been enough links from DPReview to getdpi that I would not be surprised if they have seen the G1 discussions here as well....

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1033&message=30398049&q=panasonic+reads+forum&qf=m