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After all the reading I've been doing here and elsewhere, I finally got the chance this evening to handle a G1! None of the local camera stores carry it - but was in a big furniture-and-electronics store this evening and, somewhat to my surprise, saw one in the display case.
Even more to my surprise, the salesman seemed pretty knowledgeable once he figured out I was a fellow enthusiast, and was happy to take it out, give me a good long demo, chat about the Olympus rumors, etc.
Now that I've seen and handled it, I have a couple of questions for our base of existing users. Both of them concern the eye-level finder:
Any informed comments from users about how the blackout and blur should compare to a typical DSLR finder image?
It occurs to me that since I forgot to check the ISO setting or notice what shutter speed I was getting, the long blackout could have just been caused by a slow shutter speed. And if the "shutter speed preview" feature I've read about is turned on by default, this could also account for the blurry finder image. I may go back to the store and have another look, if people feel this experience was atypical.
Thanks for any thoughts...
Even more to my surprise, the salesman seemed pretty knowledgeable once he figured out I was a fellow enthusiast, and was happy to take it out, give me a good long demo, chat about the Olympus rumors, etc.
Now that I've seen and handled it, I have a couple of questions for our base of existing users. Both of them concern the eye-level finder:
Finder blackout during shots seemed surprisingly long, considerably longer than a DSLR's mirror blackout. Is this normal? It seemed that in continuous advance mode, the camera might fire "blind" for two or three frames.
A lot of my shooting involves movement (of people) so I tried panning around the store at a typical action-following clip. The finder image seemed to get very blurry when I moved the camera. Is this typical?
Any informed comments from users about how the blackout and blur should compare to a typical DSLR finder image?
It occurs to me that since I forgot to check the ISO setting or notice what shutter speed I was getting, the long blackout could have just been caused by a slow shutter speed. And if the "shutter speed preview" feature I've read about is turned on by default, this could also account for the blurry finder image. I may go back to the store and have another look, if people feel this experience was atypical.
Thanks for any thoughts...