Panasonic G1 New York Times review

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See sample full-size JPGs from the Panasonic Lumic DMC-G1 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 at:

 

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/panasonic/dmc_g1-review/bonus_gallery.shtml

 

http://tinyurl.com/5jc9ma

 

I don't think the picture contents or subject compositions are inspiring - too bad the camera didn't

inspire better pictures - but the technical aspects of exposure and focus and JPGing are reviewable, as

well as full EXIF. I'll print some to 11 x 8.5 inches 5,760 x 1,440 dpi 6-color inkjet and let you know how

wowed I am with the potential detail. Enjoy.

 

 

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Earlier: "... Those early Olympus's used a beam splitting prism... not even a pellicle mirror. Olympus

continued this pattern with their first professional digital camera, the E-10 back in 2001..."

 

Ah-hA! No flippin mirror! And with a 1/16th 35mm-sensor (2/3rds) the shutter and prism

(or flippin' mirror if ANY had one) could also be 1/16th the size - NOT built on any preceding SLR,

especially NOT built on any preceding f35-mm film "integrated" SLR or ZLR!

 

I think my differentiation of DIGITAL bridge cameras is well supported, but I understand the desire to

look for a unifying name for 'tweens - cameras between compacts and full-fledged SLRs..

 

Earlier: "... I think Olympus is officially calling it M43 and only MFT is being used by forum people...

either way the two terms are confusing... MFT looks a lot like MTF and M43 looks a lot like M-42..."

 

Yep, new TLAs that are UAD unique and definitive are HTF hard to find. ;-)

 

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A partially mirrored prism is technically a mirror in the same way a partially silvered mirror in many modern TTL metering cameras is still a mirror. You can dice hairs all day long, but the R in SLR means Reflex and it really doesn't matter if it's an old glass mirror like in early TLR's, or a front surface mirror as more modern cameras, or a pellicle mirror like in the Canon Pellix, or a beam-splitting prism as in these kinds of cameras. It's still light travelling through a lens and optically reflecting off of a mirror (or several mirrors) before coming to the viewfinder. If the light travels through some other lens other than the main taking lens, then it's not an SLR. If the light travels through the main lens but doesn't reach the viewfinder, then it's not an SLR. The best example I can think of is a view camera. You compose and focus the image coming through the main lens and hitting the ground glass, but it's not an SLR. It has interchangeable lenses in a wide variety of focal lengths, but it's not an SLR. There are even digital variants where the image can be composed and focused live on a video screen instead of against the ground glass, but it's not an SLR. It's a "system" camera with dozens of add-ons and professional features including "image stabilization"... (we called them "tripods" back then) perspective control, and multi-format options, but it's not an SLR.