If the 14-42mm is the bread and butter lens here comes the caviar. Beautiful sharp results. Better than I had hoped.
This weather is good for assessing the dynamic range of the GH2 and I think its very impressive. I haven't encountered any highlight burn-out yet. There's also very little CA and fringing on the shots with this lens. I realise that this is far from an everyday lens for m4/3, but its virtually my stock lens and certainly the one I use the most. The only disadvantage is that it seems to focus slower on the GH2 as opposed to the GH1. Strange!
This is real quality stuff. 16MP and 46MB files. There was a rumour that Panasonic didn't really want to increase the size of the sensor and only did so to satisfy the perceived desire of the market for more MP's. Don't believe a word. This is a superb sensor and they should be rightly proud of it. It outperforms many of the APS-C sensors I've used by some distance. Incidentally I processed the following shot in Rawker (dc-raw) software as well as the Photoshop version shown here. It was almost identical, showing that this is a genuine sensor improvement and not some "software fix". Very impressive indeed.
Because of the freezing conditions, I am doing these in short bursts, with regard to my fingers!
I'm saving the fiddly stuff with lens changing until it warms up tomorrow - hopefully I can get one more trip in today.
Images D & A
Absoloutely loving these pictures. Cant wait to see the Gh2 with voitlander 25mm. Would you recommend this camera over a canon 60d? I am looking to buy my first decent camera. Only this im worried about is buying decent micro 4 3 lenses then wanting to move system later in life if micro 4 3 doesn't stand the test of time. Think there would be an adapter to take these lens onto new systems?
ReplyDeleteYou dont need that much lens with m4/3 system, I was quite fine even with one kit lens (14-45 with G1) for a year. You can for example get GH2 + 20mm/f1.7 + 14-140mm lens and Im pretty sure you wont need more lens for quite a long time.
ReplyDeleteThing with m4/3 and their lens is, that you will get quite a lot of performace for very decent price.
If you buy Canon 60D, you would need to spend really a lot of money to get same performace. But, its not like it doesnt have advantage. Its dSLR, so it has quick AF. Its probably only Canon that has tilt-swivel LCD. LiveView is good, movies are decent. Though neither of these is close to GH2 quality of movies, LiveView, plus it doesnt have touch screen.
Canon 60D is something like facelifted old american muscle car, with plastic shell. GH2 is more like new supercharged Honda, its plastic, but technologicaly few steps ahead.
If you want camera that can do great stills, movies and such, get GH2. If you want camera for fast action.. get *moment of silence* .. Sony A55 (or A33). Cause its waaay faster than most Canons. :)
Every system can live with few cheap lenses (at least Panasonic/Olympus and Sony can). So if you want to move higher later, you can simply sell them without loosing too much.
And if you want full-frame now.. just buy it and save yourself future trouble. :)
GH2 seems pretty nice from those pictures (and info). Though, no doubt about Leica lens having something to do with that. :D And skilled photographer ofc.
Thanks for the reply. I really like the look of the GH2 just waiting for more people to show samples. Id love to get a voightlander 25mm or decent leica lens like the one used on here to go with the kit lens. They look incredible. Are the second hand markets for selling cameras fairly good or is it a struggle to sell? So long as the build quality of this is ok id keep it as long as I could!
ReplyDeleteWell, Im not mister D or A. I just responded to your question. :D (just to make things clear for you) And its just my point of view.
ReplyDeleteYou can sell, or buy cameras at for example www.ffordes.com. But most used is eBay, where you can sell pretty much everything. For how much usually depends how well you care about your equipment and how old it is (and how much outdated). Problem is only with how much you get back, selling usually not. :)
But maybe mr. Soundimageplus will share some words with us on this topic too. Cause he sells a lot of gear very often. :)
Corwin is right. Ebay is a good way to sell equipment. If you look after your gear you get good prices.
ReplyDeleteI would personally prefer my GH2 over a Canon 60D but you have to pick what's right for you.
If I was starting a m4/3 outfit from scratch the first lens I would buy is the 20mm f1.7. Its a great lens & very useful. Voigtlander and Leica lenses are great but very expensive, and the manual focus can be a pain. I'll be testing those with the GH2 soon.
Mrs A is a bit upset at becoming a man!!
Heh, Im truly sorry for that, I dont even know what A stands for. :) (I know what D is for, cause I started to visiting this page when it had original name)
ReplyDeleteI dont even know what A stands for. :)
ReplyDeleteIts under the About Us tab.
Actually its time I stopped using these abbreviations.
ReplyDeleteWe are David, Ann & Ben.
"Developed from the raw" I am looking at the images of the bench -- one shiny, bright, the other flatter -- and the crop/aspect is slightly different -- I gather however they are the same source image?
ReplyDeleteDeveloped means, tone mapped and ... ? We all have our workflow secrets and we all know there are a million ways to do things in Photoshop... but I'm curious about rawker -- is there an open source Windows equivalent?
Yes, I think names make it more personal, but the single letter thing was interesting -- mysterious.
Still, at the end of the day, it's your blog :)
Thanks for the lovely images & explanations.