G1 any thoughts?

[monza]

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First M adapter photos

[peterb]

Further thoughts...

 

I did a little study of the Popular Photography's tests of the G1, Canon 5D mkII, Canon 50D, Rebel, Nikon D3, D700, D300, D90, D60, Pentax 20D, Sony A900, A700, A300, Olympus E3 and E520.

 

For overall image quality (ASA 100 - 400) the Lumix G1 matched the best of the best. According to Pop Photo..Excellent. (No higher ranking here).

 

In terms of line resolution the G1 came in at 2370 and was bested by ONLY the Canon 5D Mk II (21 MP full frame DSLR coming in at 2820), the Canon 50D (a very impressive 2420 for but with a APS sized sensor with 15.1 MP) and, not surprisingly, the Sony A900 (with it's humongous 24.6 million pixels coming in at a whopping 3230). Interestingly enough the D700, D300 and D90 did not beat it (although they are easily within spitting distance.)

 

Color accuracy? Hold on to your hats. The tiny G1 blew everyone away with the best score of the bunch. (In Pop Photo parlance the lower the score the better and the G1 came in at an uber low 6.21 rivaled at best by Canon's newest 5D.

 

Noise: At ASA 100 and 200, the G1 is the champ. Bettered only slightly by the best of the best at ASA 400. After that, the G1 for the most part packs it in.

 

Is this camera as flawless up to the stratospheric ASA/ISO levels of some cameras going for several times its base price? No.

 

But at certain levels (ASA 100 - 400) this camera is tough to beat. And with its resolution prowess well documented, put on some of this fine super-fast Leitz (or even, egad, Zeiss) glass and even with some low light deficiencies in terms of ASA, it again bodes well for some impressive low light performance within these ASA/ISO levels through 400.

 

Stay tuned.

[peterb]

For the record, in the January 2007 test of the M8 Pop Photo reported.

 

Image quality (ISO 160 - 1250): Extremely high (JPEG), Excellent (RAW) --Same as G1

 

Resolution: 1925 lines (JPEG), 2230 (RAW) G1:2370

 

Color Accuracy: 9.98 (JPEG), 7.84 (RAW) G1:6.21 (remember lower is better here)

 

RAW NOISE:

 

ISO 160: 1.05 (G1 was 0.9 at ISO 100, 0.7 at ISO 200

ISO 320: 1.1 (G1 was 1.3 at ISO 400)

ISO 640: 1.28

ISO 1250: 1.73

ISO 2500: 2.55

[monza]

Thanks for the compilation. It appears the engineers at Panasonic are quite talented. This is just the beginning.

[mreddington]

Just for info, my m23/M adapter arrived from Novoflex yesterday. It doesn't seem to be on their web site yet but you can order it by email from service@novoflex.com or by phone or fax to Tel.: 08331/88888 Fax: 08331/47174. The contact person I dealt with was Lydia Ernst. I don't know if she speaks English since I communicated in German.

 

Edit: I see monza had already given the contact info but it is good to see that they are already delivering.

 

Unfortunately no time to play until the weekend!

[monza]

Martin, any results with the Novoflex yet?

[monza]

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Hey, look what just showed up in today's mail.

 

 

 

 

[monza]

[mreddington]

Martin, any results with the Novoflex yet?

 

Hi Monza - nothing to show, I am afraid. I had a brief foray on Saturday with the Zeiss 50/2 Asph, but wasn't too satisfied with the results. Lots of camera shake due to the 100 mm effective FOV and lack of practice at that focal length. Since I got the M8 I have worked mostly with 28 or 35 mm.

 

Am now in London and hope to get some family photo opportunities ... I will share when I have something I feel comfortable to show.

 

Thanks for the photos of the adapter. I was amused that the small box with the adapter came in a big box designed more for an A4 size photo magazine. Might have been worth one of those unpacking videos.

 

Happy Christmas holidays to all.