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I saw this information on the spanish menue (spanish website review with pictures of the menues).Yes, it has IS.
Do you have a pointer to this rumor? DPR? :ROTFL:I'm happy to see this. For me the X1 is becoming an camera of interest. I could care less if it's made in Tatooine by nerf herders.
Only two places I know:Anyone seen any results anywhere yet???????
This seems like a great idea, although expensive.
I guess, I need to be shown the merits of this camera before I buy one.
Martin
Actually you are correct. There is a post in L-Camera forum confirming a base plate has been seen saying, "Made by Jawas."Do you have a pointer to this rumor? DPR? :ROTFL:
Frankly I think that Jawas are responsible. If anyone could get a Leica to AF, it would be that pesky group.
That's a little creepy, as I hadn't seen that thread before I posted my comment.Actually you are correct. There is a post in L-Camera forum confirming a base plate has been seen saying, "Made by Jawas."
I see it as the perfect modern replacement of my old favorite, the Rollei 35S. Fixed f/2.8 lens, all controls big, bright and easy to work on the body. Nothing to get in the way or distract, no lens choices, just see with your eyes and use the camera to capture your vision.Slowish, fixed lens APS cam, versus a similar concept interchangeable lens camera with fast-ish glass... Hmmmm...
I got to wonder WTF Leica was thinking here. I mean micro 4/3rds has proven itself to be stellar with IQ -- at least as good as APS -- and offers a vast array of interchangeable lens optionss. Can't imagine it would take much innovation for Leica to alter its 4/3rds mount lenses to micro 4/3rds -- or just continue to sell an adapter with them? Shaking my head on this one...
There is one obvious point here that comes to mind. A retracting lens makes it more pocketable than any interchangeable option. (You can say pancake is just slightly bigger, but this slight difference is a lot to some, and an IQ compromise is involved).Slowish, fixed lens APS cam, versus a similar concept interchangeable lens camera with fast-ish glass... Hmmmm...
I got to wonder WTF Leica was thinking here. I mean micro 4/3rds has proven itself to be stellar with IQ -- at least as good as APS -- and offers a vast array of interchangeable lens optionss. Can't imagine it would take much innovation for Leica to alter its 4/3rds mount lenses to micro 4/3rds -- or just continue to sell an adapter with them? Shaking my head on this one...
Would depend on the mount, wouldn't it? What do you think the price of the same body should be without the lens? $1200-$1300? I don't see Leica ever putting out an M mount body for that kind of money, or at least not in the foreseeable future. Then they have come up with a completely new mount and a range of compact glass for this camera, which doesn't make sense at this point in time.Slowish, fixed lens APS cam, versus a similar concept interchangeable lens camera with fast-ish glass... Hmmmm...
I must admit to having been much keener on the IQ of the micro 4/3rds before getting one, but its debatable now. I'm struggling with my GH1, I don't see the IQ anywhere near APS quality of my dlrs, if anything its closer to my none Fuji P&S cameras. I must even admit that as much as I hated the dp1 its IQ was head and shoulders above the Panasonic. I'm having hell of a time with skin tones, specially with black skin. DR is limited or at least that's how I see it using PS and iso 400 is my acceptable limit for screen and even lower for print. On the glass front I don't find any of the my Panasonic or Oly micro 4/3rds lenses better than adequate and to start using high end Zeiss or Leica glass with various adapters, well, at that point I'll use my dslrs. I don't have a collection of vintage lenses to get excited about using either nor am I in the mood to start one; I can now understand how Jono felt when he got the G1.I got to wonder WTF Leica was thinking here. I mean micro 4/3rds has proven itself to be stellar with IQ -- at least as good as APS -- and offers a vast array of interchangeable lens optionss. Can't imagine it would take much innovation for Leica to alter its 4/3rds mount lenses to micro 4/3rds -- or just continue to sell an adapter with them? Shaking my head on this one...
It's amazing to me how opposite my experience with the G1/GF1/GH1 are to this. I find it produces better to on par image quality with all the DSLRs I've been using, from Canon to Nikon to Pentax to Olympus. Color is simply a matter of what I do in rendering the RAW files, with all of them.... I must admit to having been much keener on the IQ of the micro 4/3rds before getting one, but its debatable now. I'm struggling with my GH1, I don't see the IQ anywhere near APS quality of my dlrs, if anything its closer to my none Fuji P&S cameras. I must even admit that as much as I hated the dp1 its IQ was head and shoulders above the Panasonic. I'm having hell of a time with skin tones, specially with black skin. DR is limited or at least that's how I see it using PS and iso 400 is my acceptable limit for screen and even lower for print. On the glass front I don't find any of the my Panasonic or Oly micro 4/3rds lenses better than adequate and to start using high end Zeiss or Leica glass with various adapters, well, at that point I'll use my dslrs. I don't have a collection of vintage lenses to get excited about using either nor am I in the mood to start one; I can now understand how Jono felt when he got the G1. ...
That's the beauty of this place, we hope to learn from each other. :thumbup:It's amazing to me how opposite my experience with the G1/GF1/GH1 are to this.
I don't know which dlsrs you have Godfrey but I can't get anything near my lowly Fuji S5 quality from the GH1, love to see some samples, maybe I'm doing something wrong.I find it produces better to on par image quality with all the DSLRs I've been using, from Canon to Nikon to Pentax to Olympus. Color is simply a matter of what I do in rendering the RAW files, with all of them.
I find both my 14-140 and 7-14 zooms too slow as well, specially since I find them useless wide open. I almost never use tripods so iso 400 and above is the reality for me when using the current micro 4/3rd zooms. I'm curious about what you're comparing your 14-45 IQ to. I'm asking these questions hoping to be proven wrong, I very much want to like the GH1, for a lot reasons!Of course, top quality lenses count for all of these cameras. But the G Vario 14-45 produces surprisingly excellent results ... I don't use it much simply because it's too slow for me a lot of the time, but when I am working on a tripod it's produced excellent results. I prefer fast primes for hand-held work.
Which has nothing to do with the X1 ... but such it is. ;-)
DPReview just published a 9 page preview on the X1. I love the design of this camera, everything is beautifully done. I could well be incited to eschew buying the interchangeable lens mFT compact (GF1) I've planned to and buy this instead ... but at rather great additional cost. I'm sure the lens and sensor are going to be excellent.
Hmmm...