GM5 Nut case

[dirk]

"Well known for advocating the GM5"

He is not the only advocate for it!

• Google - Pixel 7 Pro
• Pixel 7 Pro back camera 6.81mm f/1.85
• 6.8 mm
• ƒ/1.85
• 1/24 sec
• Center-Weighted Average
• Auto exposure
• ISO 48

• Google - Pixel 7 Pro
• Pixel 7 Pro back camera 6.81mm f/1.85
• 6.8 mm
• ƒ/1.85
• 1/44 sec
• Center-Weighted Average
• Auto exposure
• ISO 96

It is soooo sexy.....

 

[Tom Caldwell]

He is not the only advocate for it!


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It is soooo sexy.....

I have a picture somewhere of a GM1 attached to a Canon EF 400/2.8 MkI - all 5.5 kgs of it.

If there ever was a mouse that roared I can assure you that the GM1 mouse quite capably roared by auto focusing this lens and capturing an image. The image was not kept as it had no merit other than proving that it could be done. I might try it again one day to just take amore useful image and be able to post the image with its EXIF as proof eternal.

 

[Tom Caldwell]

I knew you needed another camera, Tom!

Next up, how about an S5 Mark 2?

Not in any near future - I promised myself that the S1 was my special camera for large legacy EF mount lenses to eventually replace my aged 5D which soldiered on after I could not bring myself to like my Sony A7R adventure.

My very large brood of M4/3 camera are large enough a clutch to tuck under my wings when I settle somewhere image worthy.

Furthermore if you checked the few posts of images I have been making of theatre performances you should be able to see that M4/3 bodies are actually doing quite well.

The S1 is a wonderful camera evenif it is a big heavy lump but I am not about to start buying into yet another mount system when I already have a very adapter-versatile bunch of EF mount lenses that I have no reason to (expensively) replace.

I did buy a new Canon 5Ds with battery grip at 1/3 of its original RRP when Canon cleaned out their dslr stables. Now I have Canon EF dslr - one of the last of the series with the most densely populated FF sensor. The much more friendly Panasonic S1 and a whole flock of interesting M4/3 bodies all milling around a clutch of EF adapters.

Only with M4/3 have I started another AF mount collection.

I am on record to re-consider extending L-Mount but only with a compact RF-style body with tilt - the S1 style tilt will do.

 

[dirk]

I am on record to re-consider extending L-Mount but only with a compact RF-style body with tilt

That would be lovely! I mean the RF-style body...

 

[Tom Caldwell]

I've never actually touched A G100, but it definitely looks much more GX850 in size, than GX9 size. I have both of those, and I find the GX9 much too big. Here's some handy comparisons. In the absence of a GX850 replacement, I've been wondering how I'd get on with a G100. But in the meantime, I've gone for an E-PL7 instead, without the hump, the G100 is much the same size.

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G100 vs GX850

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GX850 vs GX9

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G100 vs GX9

I have more M4/3 camera bodies than the proverbial stick can be poked at.

Strangely I was a very early Panasonic adopter with the long forgotten FZ1 which I bought as a replacement for an even earlier love affair with the Canon Pro90 IS.

So I bought Panasonic bodies for a while thereafter culminating in the stupid bottom hinged FZ30 - which was in fact not a bad camera in itself but the bottom hinged lcd really annoyed me. Then hardly had my credit card been paid and Panasonic released the next model (FZ50?) - essentially the same but with a more reasonable side hinge. But I was already half way out of the door as Panasonic had gone mad with noise suppression to the point of pasty. Whilst the Ricoh GRD was sharp as tacks and lived with glorious noise (aka 'grain').

My old trusty original 5D with some quite nice EF lenses served me for the important occasions when others rely on me and I only get one chance to get the images. Otherwise I just use gear for my own pleasure and I spend more of my time practicing than I do trying to make serious images.

But more and more I am finding that M4/3 is quite capable enough of reliably making great images when the pressure is on.

Unfortunately since coming back to Panasonic simply for 'a Ricoh GR that had a mount system' and a significant range of lenses (aka GM1) I have truly warmed to the system especially when it has offered so many types and sizes of camera bodies that can be mixed and matched with the lenses available.

Since M4/3 I have not really completely given up any camera body that I owned or have acquired over about the last 10 years. Digital cameras have matured - they all have benefits and quirks but they all are quite good enough and, dare I say, 'have personalities'.

 

[nzmacro]

Interesting Tom. Mine was the Sony FD-91 and floppy disks. Then the Sony CD-1000 with CDR disks. Pannie FZ-10 and then the Pannie G1 and so on till now. The Pannie FZ's were actually darn nice cameras at the time. They probably still are.

Yes they've just got better and better. We are at a point now where upgrades are getting harder to find. Is there really a need beside GAS. Always said, it's very hard to find a bad camera, but you don't have to go very far to find a bad photographer, you are talking to one.

Danny.

 

[kcdogger]

Well known for advocating the GM5 and making the unfortunate suggestion that the GM5 can be used with any lens that can be attached to the M4/3 mount.

Even tried the camera body adapted to an EF 400/2.8 MkI - this is the heaviest lens of the EF 440/2.8 series and arguably one of the heaviest if not the heaviest of the EF lens series bar none at 5.5Kg. I can do a macho man and wave this 'thing' bravely about hand held for a second or two but normally it does go on a gimbal head tripod when it become 'magic'. But it does take some care getting it up on and off the tripod.

Of course the GM5 added was just for a laugh - but surprisingly the GM5 battery was strong enough to pull AF on this lens quite serenely.

Usually I would attach some larger body these days. Once the camera body was the Canon 5D dslr with battery grip for a long session and more recently the Panasonic G9 with its large grip that is more realistic.

wHi Tom. Another refugee here. Glad you are here. I have two GM5s - red (near new) and black (thru the wars, works well, but missing the letters on the mode dial)

 

[Travis Butler]

He is not the only advocate for it!

Not the only one indeed!

 

[Travis Butler]

That would be lovely! I mean the RF-style body...

Indeed!

Sadly, Panasonic doesn't seem to be going in that direction. The Sigma fp is so close... but I admit I love it like it is anyway.

 

[Tom Caldwell]

The FZ1 was the first half decent camera out of the Panasonic works - all 2Mp on its censor.
The FZ20 was a cracking good camera in its day - still have mine.
The FZ30 was going down the road of heavy noise suppression and I hate the flip down bottom hinged lcd.
The LC1 was a designer-style Leica RF-look-alike. Very costly but with a magnificent lens - the lens alone was apparently worth the total cost. Unfortunately it is not removable and even after it was removed - how can it be made useful on another camera mount. I did play with the idea once - i made my brain overload.
I had a rest from Panasonic for quite a while and only came back for the GM1 (and stayed)