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I just got my Lumix G1 back from Precision today, it was converted to full time 715nm IR operation.
I sent the camera to Precision because of the many testimonials read in this forum regarding the quality of the Precision conversion.
I sent the camera in with the 14-45mm (Original) Panasonic Kit lens. While the camera was being converted (it took close to a month) I bought the wonderful Panasonic 7-14mm super wide lens.
My converted G1 works wonderfully with the 14-45mm lens....but it makes no attempt to focus the 7-14mm when zoomed to 7mm. It does try and focus it when zoomed to 14mm. But in all cases, the converted G1 does not achieve Infinity focus at any position of the zoom range with the 7-14mm.
Switching to manual focus, I see clearly that the converted camera cannot reach infinity with the 7-14!!
I saw many examples of Cindy Flood's Precision Converted G1 and her 7-14mm and it looks great. Did she have her G1 specifically calibrated for the 7-14mm?
Should I have expected better performance out of the 7-14 on the converted G1 if the G1 was not specifically calibrated for the 7-14?
If the converted G1 were to be calibrated for the 7-14 could I have expected the same "no infinity focus" problem out of the 14-45mm Zoom?
Would appreciate others' experiences....
-=[ Bruce ]=-
I sent the camera to Precision because of the many testimonials read in this forum regarding the quality of the Precision conversion.
I sent the camera in with the 14-45mm (Original) Panasonic Kit lens. While the camera was being converted (it took close to a month) I bought the wonderful Panasonic 7-14mm super wide lens.
My converted G1 works wonderfully with the 14-45mm lens....but it makes no attempt to focus the 7-14mm when zoomed to 7mm. It does try and focus it when zoomed to 14mm. But in all cases, the converted G1 does not achieve Infinity focus at any position of the zoom range with the 7-14mm.
Switching to manual focus, I see clearly that the converted camera cannot reach infinity with the 7-14!!
I saw many examples of Cindy Flood's Precision Converted G1 and her 7-14mm and it looks great. Did she have her G1 specifically calibrated for the 7-14mm?
Should I have expected better performance out of the 7-14 on the converted G1 if the G1 was not specifically calibrated for the 7-14?
If the converted G1 were to be calibrated for the 7-14 could I have expected the same "no infinity focus" problem out of the 14-45mm Zoom?
Would appreciate others' experiences....
-=[ Bruce ]=-