Lovin my GM1

[bicycle snap shooter]

Had it for about a month and I am very happy. Best AF I've experience in a non-SLR. In addition to kit lens also purchased Olympus 45mm f1.8. Thought the 1/50 flash synch would make the flash useless, but it works surprisingly well indoors. Light enough to use the same neck lanyard that I used with my Canon S90!

Definitely 2 handed operation.....more like smart phone photography with excellent MFT IQ and very good video quality. Usable images up to 3200 ISO.

Great touch screen functionality but I had to turn touch AF and tabs off.....get what I need/want from my custom Q menu. Really excellent how the controls can be customized to how you want to shoot.

To some degree, the joy of having a tiny, light, capable camera is offset by extra post-processing time due to, in my opinion, needing to shoot RAW because:

1. JPEG engine not in same league as Canon or Nikon

2. Noise suppression creates pasty smears.

(coming from Nikon D50, D600, Canon S90)

 

[photofan1986]

Good concise review. Also, I agree about the jpeg engine not being in the ballpark of Canon and Nikon: to me, it's better! And I've never been a fan of Panasonic rendering. I've been using the camera for one week now, and I can say that I'm very positively surprised. I though my E-M5 had nice jpegs, well I see more nuances in the Panasonic files. Also, sharpening is much finer (Olympus is using large radius sharpening, obliterating fine details).
One thing you have to do though is to reduce the default noise reduction. I set mine to -3 and I'm very happy with the noise/detail compromise.

What exactly don't you like about the jpegs?

 

[Hen3ry]

I find the JPEGs excellent. I switched to Vivid mode following my experience with the G6, which produces somewhat desaturated images in Natural and Standard modes, but it is clear the JPEG engine/sensor combination in the GM1 produces different results from the G6 -- and for everyday shooting, Vivid is too contrasty.

I have now switched the GM1 back to Natural mode while retaining Vivid as standard in the G6.

Cheers, geoff

--
Geoffrey Heard
Down and out in Rabaul in the South Pacific
http://pngtimetraveller.blogspot.com/2011/10/return-to-karai-komana_31.html

 

[bicycle snap shooter]

Well, to both you and Geoff (Hen3ry):

If great JPGs are the norm, then I want them too!

My "Photo Style" is set to default settings, except for "Vivid" which I will return to Natural..thank you Geoff. And I will try Noise Reduction at -3.....thank you photofan1986.

Any other suggestions...?

Thank you, richard