Selling GF1

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Hi Guys,

I have made up my mind that I want to sell my GF1. It has been a great camera and I really love it, but I am a gadget freak and would like to get myself a fuji x100. ANyone here that can advise whether or not the x100 is a good choice (coming from a GF1)??

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Hans

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If you used your GF1 with only the 20mm lens I'd say yes. If you like having many lens or many focal length I believe there's still interest in m43 (however you can decide to get another body later, the GF1 will eventually start to get old)
 
I have a GF1, GH2 and a Fuji X100. The larger sensor in the X100 does do a good job in lower light...but, I have no problem with the GH2 in lower light situations. There are people who enjoy using one single focal length and they love the X100...I like having the option of changing lenses. The X100 does not focus as fast or reliably as the GF1 or GH2 and that can be irritating. It is absolutely a niche camera and not one that I would choose if it were the only camera that could own. It is a nice addition, but not the main event. I have kept the GF1 because I like the layout of the controls and it is a viable backup for the GH2...and smaller and lighter when I carry a camera around NY City.
 
Thanks. very helpful.

What about the freezes that are reported with the x100, does the firmware address these issues?

I bought the GF1 with the 14-45mm kit lens, I used it only for a month till the 20mm arrived. I tried to sell it as a complete set, but people make incredible price offers, forcing me to sell the 20mm separately (which is a very desirable lens).

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Hans

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Don't get all the love for a fixed lens camera. Why limit yourself? IMO 35mm is a compromise lens. IMHO not wide enough for landscapes or street shooting and too wide for portraits. I have the similar 20mm 1.7 panny and the only time I use it is for group shots or for indoor snapshots in restaurants.
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Wormsmeat
 
Yes crazy. Everyone justs wants the 20mm lens. if I sell it as a package i get the price I get for the 20mm seperately.

185 bucks is a sharp price, but i think more reasonable would be somewhere aorund 250$. the current Panasonic's still use the same sensor...

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Hans

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The reason for me is that it is a nice camera just to take with me as my secondary camera. I travel quite a lot for work. sometimes I am in a beautiful place but only for one night and than a camera like the gf1+20mm or the x100 comes in handy.

btw you also can see it the other way, using a fixed lens can force your creativity.

when i was a child my father had a SLR, zoom lenses were expensive and he had a 50mm as walk around lens. still people made great shots at that time.
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Hans

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I have a D700, X100, E-PL3, and LX3. The X100 has the best Auto White Balance and jpeg rendering of any camera I've ever used, including the above cameras, several digital Elphs, and the Canon 1DSMarkIII. The X100 is the only one of my cameras that I shoot jpeg.

Sometimes I turn on the X100 and compose a frame, even if there's no shot to take, just to see how the Fuji will render color in a particular light. It's that good.

The operational quirks aren't bad as many report, especially once you get the camera set up the way you like. But, if you shoot people, especially kids and candids, focussing can be much more troublesome than m4/3. In my opinion, face detection is one of the greatest advancements in photography since we went digital. It allows you to lock focus on a person and change composition to get the best photo. You're not stuck with focus and recompose, or repositioning a focus sensor, like you are with the X100 and other cameras that don't have face detection.

I like my X100 very much and it makes the most film-like images of any of my cameras, but I am not leaving m4/3. I sold my GF-1 and bought an Olympus E-PL3. m4/3 is great for travel and other outdoors photography and the 7-14mm is an incredible lens. I don't expect to ever take my D700 and a backpack full of lenses on a family vacation again. Well, maybe...
 
The reason for me is that it is a nice camera just to take with me as my secondary camera. I travel quite a lot for work. sometimes I am in a beautiful place but only for one night and than a camera like the gf1+20mm or the x100 comes in handy.
I agree the X100 is nice, just not for me. I could get by with two lenses, a 24mm and an 85mm, but not one.
btw you also can see it the other way, using a fixed lens can force your creativity.
An oft-used argument that I don't hold with. I think it limits creativity.
when i was a child my father had a SLR, zoom lenses were expensive and he had a 50mm as walk around lens. still people made great shots at that time.
Fair enough point. The 50mm lens is IMO a better focal length for a single-lens camera.
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Wormsmeat
 
My colleague just bought a lightly used, mint, GF-1 body for $125 at a camera photo fair. GF-1 owner's got the itch for a Fuji X100.
The reason for me is that it is a nice camera just to take with me as my secondary camera. I travel quite a lot for work. sometimes I am in a beautiful place but only for one night and than a camera like the gf1+20mm or the x100 comes in handy.
I agree the X100 is nice, just not for me. I could get by with two lenses, a 24mm and an 85mm, but not one.
btw you also can see it the other way, using a fixed lens can force your creativity.
An oft-used argument that I don't hold with. I think it limits creativity.
when i was a child my father had a SLR, zoom lenses were expensive and he had a 50mm as walk around lens. still people made great shots at that time.
Fair enough point. The 50mm lens is IMO a better focal length for a single-lens camera.
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Wormsmeat
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Like others here, I suffer from chronic GAS.
Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
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I would get a NEX 5N with the Voigtlander Heliar 15mm, as I like wide angles.
 
My colleague just bought a lightly used, mint, GF-1 body for $125 at a camera photo fair. GF-1 owner's got the itch for a Fuji X100.
Nice move.
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Wormsmeat
 
Hi Guys,

I have made up my mind that I want to sell my GF1. It has been a great camera and I really love it, but I am a gadget freak and would like to get myself a fuji x100. ANyone here that can advise whether or not the x100 is a good choice (coming from a GF1)??
You can't change the lens on that thing!

I once bought a Konica Hexar 35mm film rangefinder becuae I couldn't afford a Leica. It had a fixed 35mm lens, a very quiet shutter leaf shutter and was a very nice camera. It drove me nuts that I couldn't change the focal length and was useless for portraits. I sold it to the guy in the camera shop who had sold it to me. About a year later, Konica came out with the same camera but with an M mount. THe price of the fixed lens Hexars went through the floor.

As soon as the interchangeable lens version of the X100 comes out you won't be able to give away a fised lens x100. $1,100.00 down the drain.
Tedolph
 
Maybe it is just sentiment, I would never buy Sony for a DSC.

But to give a sensible answer, the Sony has no dial controls like the GF1. And the x100 is an upgrade for various reasons such as great low light performance and viewfinder. not seeing the 5n so much of an upgrade over the GF1.

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Hans

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