Each to their own, its not a hassle for a lot of people. An adaptor is not exactly a large heavy piece of kit but different folks and all that. For the sake of an adaptor I get to use all my 4/3 lenses and thats a hell of a bonus but I take your point that it might not suit some. I can't see many existing 4/3's users having a problem.
14-140mm? So much for compact size! From the pictures on the web it looks to be almost as long as the G1 body is wide. The G1 body is 125mm.
Simple, If its too big then don't buy it, we're not exactly talking huge sizes here and the weight of the lens is also a factor. Like the 4/3's kit lenses which are very light but also very good.
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Wow, touched a nerve?
It certainly is, but it takes about 50 to 100 milliseconds for the camera to take your shot, so for the skill levels present for current technology, 16.6ms+electronic delays of visual lag is not an issue, as you have to anticipate, anyway. No one really shoots isolated shots in realtime.
4/3 isn't a whole lot smaller than APS-C; the real problem with Panasonic sensors is that they have high read noise, especially at high ISOs, because they do not employ some of the advanced readout techniques used in Canon and Nikon sensors.
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or in-camera processing as its more commonly known.4/3 isn't a whole lot smaller than APS-C; the real problem with
Panasonic sensors is that they have high read noise, especially at
high ISOs, because they do not employ some of the advanced readout
techniques used in Canon and Nikon sensors.
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John
Yes the image on the eye-level viewfinder in the Panasonic G1 does come direct from the sensor, but it also does use a vertically running mechanical focal plane shutter. There are a host of reasons for this that I will not speculate about, but it does make a reassuring click without the clunk of an SLR mirror.
There are several other Olympus four thirds format lenses that will autofocus with a micro four thirds body: their 25mm pancake lens and 35mm macro for starters.
No.
Look . . . no focal plane shutter . . . just the sensor!
From here: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/PanasonicG1/page3.asp
Readout comes before in-camera processing in the image processing pipeline. In fact it isn't even in the pipeline. It's even before A/D conversion. If you'd like to call this "in camera processing", please show me an in-camera processor that works with analog data.
Well something is up; the noise levels at iso200 for the E30 (in the samples floating around) is alarming. Its not even close to D90 levels in terms of iq, which is a sensor of older design and supposedly not much larger than 43 (i say that 50% is much larger).
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John
No, I am talking about things like correlated double sampling, which determines pixel offsets with certainty.
Does film grain give the perception of sharpness too? For the same reason?
I would say so.
