tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81315155880694906222024-03-19T00:32:07.371+13:00Man Behind Lenscy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.comBlogger470125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-16436375094078912842019-10-15T23:38:00.001+13:002019-10-15T23:55:59.999+13:00Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH, worth buying used?<span style="font-size: large;">One of my friend</span> thought he got a great deal out of eBay (Aust) a few weeks ago, he paid an equivalent of NZD240.00 for this three year old <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">This "pancake" lens actually has a long history, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Panasonic presents their large (F1.7) aperture "pancake" 20mm (40mm equivalent) lens as the kit lens for the Lumix DMC-GF1 camera in 2010, TEN years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I wrote about this lens, which I still got in Jan 2014; I reckoned then this is the <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.com/2014/01/lumix-g-20mm-f17-asph-perfect-normal.html">Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH, the "Perfect Normal" Lens</a></span>.</span><br />
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Rewinding to ten days ago, weather was fine and Le Gen and Mua headed to Wellington Botanical Garden to check out whatever were the remain of the tulips.<br />
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I took the opportunity to bring along the 20mm with my Lumix GX85.<br />
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I shot all the test shot on full f1.7 or f2.8 to show the ability and incredible sharpness of this small wonder.<br />
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Each shot you see here were then crop to 100% enlargement to show the spot-on focus and the blow-up-ability.<br />
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<b>Well, the beautiful results, sharpness spoke for themselves!</b><br />
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<b>As for the stunning pano, I never shot any pano with a 20mm before, silly me thought it was no good for this mode! So I took ONE shot and WOW! I should have taken more.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words...</span></b><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">I really like this pancake! I like it's <b>creamy bokeh</b>, it's <b>accurate colour rendition</b>; it's <b>sharpness even when wide open.</b></i><b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;" /></b><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">I am not so fond of it's rather slow auto focus, but this is a 10 year old lens... and the lack of built-in image stabiliser, well, use it with cameras with stabiliser.</i><br />
<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">As far as I know a brand new one cost NZD449 at <a href="https://www.photowarehouse.co.nz/shop/shop-by-product/searchresults">Photowarehouse</a>, the 20mm came in a "Mk2" version for a few years now.</i><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">I told my anxious friend he got a good bargain indeed!</i>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-25392086962351673822019-01-28T23:05:00.000+13:002019-01-28T23:05:26.772+13:00Memento - P3 Beach Girl of The Star<span style="font-size: x-large;">Malaysia's</span> <b>leading English diary newspaper The Star was born on 9 September 1971.</b><br />
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From day one, Mr K.S.Choong, the founder decided that a bikini clad "Beach Girl" will grace Page3.<br />
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"Page 3 girls always sell paper!" Choong reckoned ;)<br />
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Doreen Quah was the FIRST Page 3 girl of The Star, picture was taken by Chiang Siak Weng.<br />
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I remember fondly that I went to a lot of these "Beach Girl Job", usually the News Editor; Charles Chan will assign a cub reporter to tag along for "job experience".<br />
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This is a clipping of one of my beach girl, Christine Chang; who was 27 when I took her photo.<br />
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Where are you now, Christine? San Francisco or may be settled in Penang under the Malaysia's My Second Home programme? :)<br />
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Young Jenny Takach was taken by me and published in 12 July 1975.<br />
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Charles Chan commented recently...<br />
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"Come to think of it, The Star's circulation was truly boosted by boobs, cleavages and miles and miles of legs. People of Penang must truly have been missing something vital in their lives!<br />
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CY, in my next life I want to come back as a pixman!"<br />
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Ha ha ha...<br />
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Reporter Gerrie Teng who had been to many of this "envious jobs" with me said...<br />
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"Yes, Leow, those were the fun days where bikini-clad girls were our page 3 girls!! and you remember.. we have to go along the 'tourist belt' then to get those sporting Mat Salleh girls to pose for us.<br />
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Must have made them feel like beauty queens!!"<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">But good things always come to an end...</span></b><br />
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<b>November 11, 1975 in The Star...</b><br />
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<b><i>Strange but True...</i></b><br />
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<b><i>One of the Editor from The Star told me:</i></b><br />
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<b><i>"CY, I was at that meeting on behalf of The Star. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Those ministry killjoys might as well ban pictures of any woman in the newspapers.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>They even had a restriction regarding the thickness of the strap for a one-piece swimsuit. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>The way a woman displays her hands -- whether they are on the hips, raised behind the head exposing the armpit or placed strategically across the bosom --- no can do! </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Even the famous half-smile closed eyes and pouting lips pose made famous by Marilyn Monroe was taboo. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>I've never met a more ridiculous bunch of censors."</i></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words...</span></b><br />
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<b><i>The sad part of that "law" was even bikini clad women are not allowed!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>I can understand the "public morality" on topless girls and "peek-a-boo" blouses, but bikini?</i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">After November 11, 1975; The Star was never the same again :(</span></i></b>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-22596698026518024882019-01-26T01:16:00.000+13:002019-01-26T22:55:40.279+13:00Déjà vu - Tunku and Holden<span style="font-size: x-large;">Life</span><span style="font-size: large;"> is full of little surprises...</span><br />
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Out of the blue I received this Gmail from Mary ****, Portland, USA.<br />
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Mary even got my Gmail name with one dot too many! Yeah, but Gmail is clever, it decided the mail was for me!<br />
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<b><i>"Dear Mr. Leow,</i></b><br />
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<b><i>I was impressed by your photographic work in your blog, "The Man Behind the Lens: Freeze That Decisive Moment". Your work covers a great span of Malaysian history and you showed great persistence and loyalty in returning to the Star three times. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Among the photos, I am particularly interested in the one between Tunku Abdul Rahman and William Holden in Penang. Based on what you said, these photos were taken during the '70's. Do you have an exact date? Were they connected with any newspaper articles? Have you made any copies or have sold any? </i></b><br />
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<b><i>I am interested in them for both a personal and historical level. My grandfather spent quite some time traveling and working in Southeast Asia especially Malaysia. Any insights you may have would be much appreciated and would be well recognized. Thank you again for your time and consideration. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Sincerely,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Mary ******</i></b><br />
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This was the picture that Mary saw in my blog...<br />
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In 2009 I wrote about this incident...<br />
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<i>"Found this old print among my souvenir...</i><br />
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<i>My contact at Rasa Sayang Hotel, Penang tipped me that my favorite actor William Holden is in town!</i><br />
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<i>I charged over to the beach hotel with a reporter and we managed to get an exclusive pictures and story not only of Holden and him with beautiful Stephanie Powers!</i><br />
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<i>When Holden found out Tunku Abdul Rahman is the Chairman of The Star, he asked me to take him to meet him.</i><br />
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<i>We took Holden to Tunku's chalet at Batu Ferringhi Beach and he met Malaysia's first Prime Minister.</i><br />
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<i>After a long conversation together on wild life conservation, Tunku and Holden stood at the veranda and look at the sunset....</i><br />
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<i>I recorded the moment with a Nikon F2 and a 105mm f2.5 lens. Kodak Tri-X film was used."</i><br />
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<b>Because of Mary's email I went and dig into my archive again and discover ALL the shots I took on that fateful day!</b><br />
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<b>I remember only 2 shots from this collection were published.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words.</span></b>..<br />
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<i>William Holden was an American actor who was one of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s through the 1970s.</i><br />
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<i>When I met him and Stefanie Powers in 11 July 1975, he was 57. They said his heavy drinking and smoking took away his chiseled good look, to me he looked GREAT!</i><br />
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<i>During the exclusive short interview with reporter Tony Chew of The Star (Penang) at Rasa Sayang Beach Hotel.</i><br />
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<i>Six years after coming to Penang, in 1981, Holden died, he was 63."</i><br />
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<i>Holden and Tunku pictures were published in The Star on 12 July 1975.</i>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-15266439798202623372018-06-07T20:57:00.003+12:002018-06-07T20:57:53.202+12:00Lumix TZ220 Lens Hack for a 18mm Ultra-Wide!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was happy</span></b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to find out that the new Lumix TZ220 come with a 24 to 360 Eq zoom lens, one mm WIDER than the TZ110 it replaced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the <b><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.com/2016/05/lumix-dmc-tz110-ideal-travel-camera.html">TZ110 review</a></span></b>, I lamented that ONE mm less at the wide end result in significant loss in coverage. Take a look at the picture below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To prove to myself the TZ220 indeed came with a WIDER 24mm Eq lens, I took shots of the same scene with the TZ220 at 24mm setting to compare with a shot taken with a 12-32 kit lens, at 12mm setting. (12mm is 24mm Eq). Both files were JPEG, straight from the cameras.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT?!!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not hard to notice that the TZ220's 24mm is NOT as wide as the 24mm on the kit lens!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>WHY?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked and was not given a reasonable explanation from Panasonic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To find out exactly what the TZ220 zoom saw at the instance of exposure, I opened the RAW version of that file in <b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/">Affinity Photo</a></span></b>...</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">SURPRISE?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apart for the ugly Lens Vignetting (darkening) in the four corners, the TZ220 zoom is actually MUCH WIDER than a 24mm Eq, it look more like a 18mm ultra-wide!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So WORKING TO MY ADVANTAGE, I am able to post process that vignetting image (in <b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.epaperpress.com/ptlens/">PTLens</a></span></b>) and rewarded myself with this...</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> PRESTO!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now my TZ220 is actually recording scenes at an ULTRA-WIDE 18mm Eq!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another example...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also found out that the Lumix TZ220 actually exhibit <b>DIFFERENT FOCAL LENGTH</b> in COVERAGE at <b>DIFFERENT ASPECT RATIO</b>!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For instance...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">In 4:3, 26 - 390mm in 35mm equiv.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">In 3:2, 24 - 360mm in 35mm equiv.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">In 16:9, 25 - 375mm in 35mm equiv.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">In 1:1 31 - 465mm in 35mm equiv.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That explain why I am unable to get 24mm view because my TZ220 was set at 4:3 ratio, at 4:3, strange but true, I only get 26mm Eq from my zoom!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems if I want to get the full coverage of 24-360mm, I will have to use the 3:2 aspect ratio!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Panasonic should make that clear and obvious in their presentation.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Famous Last Words...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>If you own a TZ220, it is quite straight forward to shoot RAW and by following my method, extract a much wider coverage from your built-in zoom!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Give it a try!</b></span>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-1504277193111242792018-06-06T14:43:00.001+12:002018-06-06T15:59:26.919+12:00A Better Grip for Lumix GM1<b><span style="font-size: large;">I love my little GM1</span></b>, it is the tiniest full MFT camera that take interchangeable lenses, it is so small, it is hard to hand hold steadily till I found out and stuck on a <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.kleptography.com/rf/">Richard Franiec custom grip</a></span></b> for the GM1!<br />
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Four years ago that small piece of 20g anodized aluminium alloy cost me a whopping US$34.95 plus shipping, my friends thought I am mad, paying that much for a small piece of metal! That piece of sculptured alloy was mounted on the GM1 with 3M double-sided tape and transformed the handling of the little camera!<br />
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Until, my friend Mity, post in Facebook what he ordered for his GM1!<br />
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I was charged NZD 21.40 and that is free postage to New Zealand!<br />
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After a long wait of 23 days, my <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/371748358557">LB-GM1 Quick Release QR L-Plate Bracket Hand Grip For Panasonic DMC-GM1K</a></span></b> Camera arrived from China!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This is how it look on my GM1...</span></b><br />
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The die-cast grip fit like a glove to the GM1, there is an opening below the grip to allow the removal of the battery and XD card, WITHOUT taking off the grip.<br />
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In contrast, the <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-Hand-grip-DMW-HGR1-K-for-LUMIX-GM/273260661299?hash=item3f9f9aca33:g:xkQAAOSw4ahbFiW4">Panasonic DMW-HGR1 hand grip for GM1;GM5</a></b></span> have to be detached for that function and it cost NZD120.00 PLUS postage!<br />
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The LB-GM1 grip includes a alloy left holder for attaching accessory (I think), which can be remove with the included Allen keys.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words...</span></b><br />
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If you own a Lumix GM1 or GM5, this is NZD21.00 well spent!<br />
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The well made grip will make the little camera much steadier to hand hold!<br />
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Go and order one!<br />
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** The <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.kleptography.com/rf/">Richard Franiec custom grip</a> has ben discontinued.</span></b>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-27314288602594442032018-05-25T16:28:00.001+12:002018-05-26T00:15:53.106+12:00Lumix DMC-TZ220, Another Ideal Travel Camera?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">PANASONIC</span></b> has been producing their TZ (TRAVEL ZOOM) compact camera range for nearly 12 years, their latest offering is the LUMIX TZ220.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By squeezing a large 1-inch 20.1MP sensor and a 24-360mm zoom lens into a pocket-sized body, I can see that Panasonic has no competition in this range!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The TZ220 is also known as </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lumix TZ200 / ZS200 in other country.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2010/06/travel-cameras.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">A good travel camera</a></span></b> should have the following quality:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.48px;">2) Take interchangeable lens.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Six years later, look like the TZ110 fit all the bill, except 2), on interchangeable lens!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">But six years later, the TZ110 come with a Leica branded 25-250 10X zoom! So may be I do not need my ideal travel-cam to be able to change lens anymore?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">If you read my</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/05/lumix-dmc-tz110-ideal-travel-camera.html"> review on the TZ110</a></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">, you will realised I was VERY IMPRESSED with the camera!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Two years after the successful TZ110, Panasonic up the ante and released the TZ220.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">At NZ$1,400 is it that much better than the TZ110 which is selling at $987 now?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Externally, the TZ220 is virtually a copy of its older brother, except for that red lined </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">RUBBER STRIP on the front which actually improved the grip of the camera. The TZ110 is notoriously slippery and you risk dropping the small camera!</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">a Leica branded 25-250 10X zoom on the 110, the TZ220 come with a WHOOPING</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">24-360 15X zoom!</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are the rest of the new features on the TZ220...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* 1240k dots instead of the 1040k dots touch screen.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* 2330K dot live viewfinder, 1164 more dots than the TZ110.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Come with Bluetooth so you can connect the camera to smart devices and share photos faster.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* New L Monochrome digital filter which claim to gives images a black & white film feel to them.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* TZ220 can auto marks images from 4K photo sequences to create a "time lapse" like photo.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Battery life is now slightly longer than the TZ110.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The TZ220 is a very compact camera, you are able to put it into your cardigan's pocket, it is 30gm heavier than the 110 and you definitely can feel the heft, I would prefer a belt pouch when I am on the road.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel that a neck strap will help when travelling and when you have to do a lot of walking. The camera sadly only come with a thin hand strap!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next I look at the "new" lens, the one with 5 times more zoom pull than it's older sibling.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One disappointment I have on the new lens is the maximum "brightness" of the optics, the older TZ110 lens is f/2.8 (W) - 5.9 (T) to f/8, which means at 25mm setting I am able to shoot at f/2.8, think of better low light capability!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The new TZ220 super-zoom however, is f/3.3 (W) - 6.4 (T) to f/8, at a low light situation I only have an effective f/3.3 at 24mm, a full f stop darker than the 110 lens!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, the TZ220 lens is ONE mm WIDER (24mm against 25mm) than the TZ110!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why is a mere mm that big deal?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I first tested the TZ110 two years ago, I lamented why Panasonic did not install a 24-250 lens instead of the 25-250.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I even show what a mere 1 mm less wide can miss out in coverage!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That was how MUCH LESS coverage between a 24 and 25mm!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am actually glad that finally Panasonic go for 24mm on the TZ220!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what can this SUPER ZOOM deliver?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lets take a look!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, the RANGE of "pull" or coverage this versatile zoom lens is able to deliver...</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Group photo taken at 24mm, 1/40 sec, f/4.5</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grab shot at 80mm, 1/1,600 sec, f/8.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shot at 80mm f/4.9 1/2,000 sec.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">@ 360mm f/8, 1/400 sec.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">@ 24mm, f/6.4, 1/1,600 sec.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">@ 24mm f/6.3 1/2,000 sec</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">@ 260mm f/6.4 1/1,300 sec.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crop from photo above.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Famous Last Words...</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Again, Panasonic offer a very versatile compact camera for travellers!</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The TZ220, as far as I can see, have no competition from other manufacturer.</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>However, the rather high NZ$1,400 price bug me a bit...</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #444444;">At the moment, for $1,195 I am able to get myself a </span><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/lumix-gx85-did-panasonic-got-it-right.html">GX85</a></span><span style="color: #444444;"> with 12-32 (24-64) kit lens plus a free 25mm (50) f/1.7 lens!</span></i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Ok,ok... so I don't have a "SUPER ZOOM" built-in and my set up is much heavier but in exchange I get a much more capable camera with changeable lens and an image sensor that is FOUR TIMES larger than the one in TZ220.</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>But that is me...</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand</span>, if you prefer a NO FUSS travel photo taking, with a all rounded lens that can cover super-wide to super-tele, then the TZ220 is for you!</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="color: #444444;">* TZ220 courtesy of </span><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://www.panasonic.com/nz/">Panasonic New Zealand</a></span><span style="color: #444444;">. </span></b></i></span></span>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-64669772199248618742018-05-12T20:33:00.002+12:002018-05-13T11:35:13.103+12:00Looking Back... Dr. M and His Words<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Dr.M</span> is at it again! He is back!!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">On Thursday, 10 of May he has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Malaysia the SECOND time after his shock election victory, 15 years after he stood down!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">During my career with The Star, Dr. M and Moi cross path many time..</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I remember fondly that I was given a scolding by him when I try to snap a picture of him having his lunch in Alor Setar. The excitement when one crazy guy try to attack him in Kedah and was subdued by his body guards. But my most memorable moment with the oldest Prim Minister in the world was on </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Thursday August 19, 1982.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>Fast rewind to that fateful day... </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I was a young Photo Editor for </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_%28Malaysia%29" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">The Star</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">, waiting patiently for Dr M to come out from his meeting at the Second Army Division at Northam Road in Penang.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Standing beside me were photographers from other "larger" papers, Star was "nothing" to New Straits Time, Malay Mail, Straits Echo, Nanyang, Sin Chew and even Sin Pin and Kwong Wah Yit Poh!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Alas on that fateful day, the other photographers did not notice the Dr M's trademark slogan <b><span style="font-size: large;">"Bersih... Cekap... Amanah" </span>(Clean... Efficient... Trustworthy)</b> that were hanging along the corridor!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I knew the shot I wanted and I chooses my lens for the best perspective to bring Dr M and his slogan together. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">The rest, like they said; is history.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">This was the front page of the Penang edition of The Star, the next day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Fast rewind to November 2003, after 22 years; Dr Mahathir spend his last day as Malaysian Prime Minister. On the same day I arrived back to Wellington with my wife after an eventful 29 days stay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Of my "short" visits, I spend a night in KL and finally got to meet up with Jeff Ooi! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">"A THIRTY years wait!" Jeff exclaimed... not bad, considered Dr M "DID IT" in 22! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">It was a most memorable day in KL indeed, Jeff took me to the National Art Gallery to see the "1,000 faces of Dr Mahathir" where I saw my "famous" shot of young M walking past his famous slogan... it was a HUGE print, if not the largest but arguably, my friends told me; was the most memorable picture of Dr M, EVER! I leave the judgment to you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Photo of Moi beside the iconic print was taken by Jeff Ooi.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I was informed by Jeff Ooi that China Press used my Dr. M picture on their front page yesterday. What! No credit? How and where did they get that picture from?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ex colleague </span>Chan Lee Meng also inform me that ABC showed my Dr.M pic in their summary. Thanks Lee Meng.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Finally... All the best Dr Mahathir, thanks for letting me record some of your great moments<span style="background-color: white;">, please let me salute you for bringing HOPE to Malaysians again!</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The GX85 is perfectly balance and comfortable to hold with most of the compact M43 lenses, it gets a bit front heavy when you start using heavy or long lenses on this "thin" body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unlike the GX7 it replaced (the GX85 is GX7 Mk2 in Japan), the "front grip" on the GX85 is not thick enough to stabilise a long or heavy lens, this is when I decided to get an external grip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After much searches, I am shocked that there are less than a handful grips for the GX85, most of them are NOT grips per sec but thumb rests EXCEPT ONE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The one for my GX85 is the J.B. Pro Wood Grip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eight days after I placed my order at their web site, my grip arrived!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The base of the grip is made of strong Peruvian Walnut and the vertical post is custom machined out of solid aluminium and then anodised to give a unique texture & professional look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">JB reckoned wood is a great material for camera grips because of its natural properties: great strength while being lightweight and the natural grain texture it provides for grip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I actually find the walnut base beautifully unique and over time, they say the oils from your skin and any dings will only add to the awesome look of the Wood Grip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The grip adds 77 gram to the camera, a tiny weight really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The gripped GX85 with the rather heavy Nikon 105/2.8 FF, MF lens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much more steady and comfortable with the grip!!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words...</span></b><br />
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<b>Is the JB Grip worth the US$80 (not including postage) cost?</b><br />
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<b>It is!</b><br />
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<b>With the grip the GX85 feels so much better in my hand.</b><br />
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<b>So much easier to hold when I mount my heavy MF Nikon lenses on it. I also like that the wide base plate lets me set my camera down and it doesn't tip over!</b><br />
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<b>Every Pro Wood Grip is guaranteed for life.</b><br />
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<b>"Apa Lagi You Mahu?" (What Else Do You Want)</b><br />
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<b>NO, I DO NOT WORK FOR JB CAMERA DESIGNS. :)</b>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-91695888980117725352018-04-25T21:39:00.001+12:002018-04-26T14:45:53.198+12:00GX85 or GX9?<b><span style="font-size: large;">DECISION, decision, decision!!</span></b><br />
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After I post my <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2018/03/lumix-gx9-better-gx85.html">LUMIX GX9 a Better GX85</a></span></b>, I got this comment...<br />
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<dt class="comment-author " id="c7939467659832902035" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/15496951754474657071" rel="nofollow" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;">Augusto</a> said...</dt>
<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-7939467659832902035" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 25px 0.5em 0px;"><b><i>Your post is exactly what I was looking for since I still can't decide which one of these two cameras I should buy. I'm really inclined to get the GX85 due to the little difference in quality and considering that it's half the price of the GX9. But looking at these 2 pictures you took, I noticed that the road pavement in the one you took with the GX85 seems to be cracked while in the other picture it's perfect. Is it normal in the GX85?</i></b><br />
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I have to go back to my picture archive and look at those pictures again!<br />
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These are the pictures in question, the top one was taken with my GX85 and the bottom, a review GX9 from Panasonic New Zealand.<br />
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Both were using the 12-32 kit lens, both were shot at 12mm f/6.3.<br />
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Both shots were from RAW format.<br />
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To satisfy Augusto's curiosity, I crop into both picture at 100% to pixel peep, here are the results.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From GX85, crop to 100%</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From GX9, crop to 100%.</td></tr>
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<b>Can you notice the sharpness differences?</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I can't!</span></b><br />
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Just to be sure, lets go 200%, shall we?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From GX85, 200% crop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From GX9, 200% crop.</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words...</span></b><br />
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<b><i>From what we can see, I concluded that we are unable to differentiates files from GX85 and GX9.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Taking into account that the GX85 is nearly 50% cheaper, I would keep mine for a few more years.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Did that answer your question Augusto? </i></b></dd>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-16113296149546830372018-04-11T16:11:00.000+12:002018-04-11T16:13:32.118+12:00Adobe DNG Converter CROP Your RAW Files!<span style="font-size: large;">Before I start my rant, please look at my work flow...</span><br />
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I do casual reviewing for Panasonic New Zealand, I shoot all my test pix in BOTH RAW and JPEG. Since every new camera have a unique RAW file, I usually was able to update my FREE Adobe DNG Converter before I receive the new camera.<br />
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After I got all the test shots I wanted, I convert all the Panasonic RW2 files to DNG for easy opening with Adobe Camera Raw in my OLD Photoshop CS5. I also open my JPEG files the same way.<br />
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I thrashed all the RW2 after they were converted to DNG.<br />
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So far so good, as expected the same JPEG and RAW files LOOK identical.<br />
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<b>That is what I thought, take a look at some of the files taken with different Panasonic Lumix cameras in RAW and JPEG.</b><br />
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Everything look HUNKY DORY till three weeks ago, when I finished reviewing Panasonic's latest <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2018/03/lumix-gx9-better-gx85.html">LUMIX GX9</a></span></b>.<br />
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There was a strange phenomenon I cannot explain, I wrote about it in <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2018/03/lumix-gx9-raw-jpeg-integrity.html">LUMIX GX9 RAW & JPEG INTEGRITY</a></span></b><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></span><br />
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The phenomenon was discovered by accident because I was forced to open the GX9 RW2 file with my AFFINITY PHOTO, I cannot convert it to DNG like I always do because Adobe has not come out with the update at that time.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I was stunned that the JPEG version of the same file was CROPPED by this much from the RW2 file!</span></b><br />
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I seek an answer from Panasonic New Zealand and received this reply...<br />
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<b><i>"Have you tried testing the Raw files in Adobe also now it is supported?</i></b><br />
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<b><i>The factory have come back saying the difference is because Affinity currently don’t receive our Raw file information so the effects are from their interpretation of the raw file."</i></b><br />
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So it was Panasonic who put in the instruction for the file to be crop when it is open! And since Adobe has updated their latest DNG Converter, I did another test.<br />
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As expected, the JPEG and the DNG files look exactly the same. Adobe DNG Converter carry out the instruction from Panasonic to crop off the 4 sides of the file. As for Affinity Photo, it just open the RW2 file as it was, ignoring the crop instruction!<br />
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And since I happen to have the RW2 from my GX85, I did the same test and discovered the "CROP EFFECT" also apply to the GX85 RAW files!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words...</span></b><br />
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<b>The "CROP EFFECT" is significant to me because...</b><br />
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<b>It took away the four corner of coverage from the lens in use, for instance, if the RW2 image was what the 12mm saw, the JPEG and DNG cropped image CANNOT be what a 12mm lens saw!</b><br />
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<b>This test (for me) opened a Pandora box, from now on I will have to keep my RW2 files in case I need the FULL file coverage without the corner being cropped!</b><br />
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<b>To put it succinctly, I expect my lenses to provide WHAT I SEE is WHAT I GET and NOT LESS COVERAGE.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever thought about that?</span></b>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-87588152504201929192018-03-24T23:06:00.001+13:002018-03-25T13:10:42.645+13:00LUMIX GX9 RAW & JPEG INTEGRITY<b><span style="font-size: large;">After reviewing</span></b> Panasonic's <b><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2018/03/lumix-gx9-better-gx85.html">Lumix GX9</a></b> two weeks ago, it is time I look through the hundreds of image files I shot with this delightful M43 camera, archiving what I need and thrash what I do not.<br />
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In the process, I opened a few GX9's RAW (RW2) files with <b><a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/">Affinity Photo</a></b>, my Adobe DNG Converter (10.2) is not able to convert the "new" file yet.<br />
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My usual workflow when I review a camera is to shoot BOTH JPEG and RAW files.<br />
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The RAW are converted to DNG and open in Adobe Camera Raw, so are the JPEG and both are adjusted in ACR where necessary.<br />
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This time round I notice something strange between the JPEG and RAW that I cannot explain and I think it is worth some investigating!<br />
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I took a shot of this landscape where half of the top were brightly lit and the bottom half were in deep shadow. I was going to use these files to test the dynamic range and the integrity of the files after they are adjusted. The top image was from JPEG and the bottom from RAW.<br />
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Both images went through Adobe camera Raw where details were reclaimed and colour adjusted. As you can see, the JPEG's colour did not react that well to the heavy adjustments and the road is still with blue bias.<br />
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The RAW responded beautifully from the post processing and I got a very accurate rendition of the scene!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>But WAIT!</b></span><br />
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Notice the RAW file is showing MORE of the landscape than the JPEG?<br />
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Checking their image size...<br />
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<b>JPEG 5,184 x 3,888 pixels 17.28x12.96"</b><br />
<b>RAW 6,200 x 3,904 pixels 17.333x13.013"</b><br />
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The Image Size clearly show the RAW file have MORE PIXELS than the JPEG!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Why?</span></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/quick-tip-raw-is-bigger-than-jpeg--photo-9299">Photo and Video Theory</a></b> claimed "The image size window confirms that there are no difference between a RAW and a JPEG when it comes to their weight in MB."<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">But my finding showed this is NOT true. The RAW is nearly 2MB MORE than the JPEG!</span></b><br />
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<b>What about the INTEGRITY of both files? </b><br />
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Are JPEGs so good now that, fussy photographers do not need to shoot RAW and thus saving LOTS of space? What if your image have a very wide range of brightness and shadows, like the one I was showing you?<br />
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These are the 100% cut from the lower left of both files...<br />
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I think the crops above give you a good idea that the RAW image deliver better detail than the JPEG , you want the best? Shoot RAW!<br />
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<b>Again, TOP file from JPEG and BOTTOM from RAW, these were 200% crops!</b></div>
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This also go to show how good the 20.3 MP sensor is!!<br />
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Not forgetting these were shot with the "cheap" 12-32 kit lens! Now you know how good it is!<br />
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Coming back to the size difference, could it be Infinity Photo doing it right with the RAW file and ACR screwing up the JPEG?<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The plot thickens!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">I just opened BOTH RAW and JPEG with Infinity Photo and the RAW is still larger than the JPEG.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Look like the fault is with the JPEG Engine in the GX9!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Will get an answer from Panasonic.</span></b>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-84773159571548566002018-03-09T15:50:00.001+13:002018-03-09T16:22:41.269+13:00LUMIX GX9 FIASCO<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>I was asked by my readers to write a post on the new Lumix GX9 camera and why it is receiving a lot of bad vibes from Lumix fans...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To understand why the Lumix GX9, a really good micro 43 offering from Panasonic is getting lambasted by it's fans, we got to rewind to the beginning...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In November 7, 2011 Panasonic announced their LUMIX DMC GX1.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The DMC-GX1 has a 16MP sensor with a top ISO of 12,800. The 460,000 dot 3.0" fixed LCD functions as a touch screen. The camera will create full AVCHD 1080/60i video from 30fps sensor output. Continuous full resolution shooting is 4fps while burst mode allows continuous shooting up to 20fps at a lower resolution. Extra function buttons were added bringing the total to four, two of which are on the touch screen. Auto bracketing will create sets of 3, 5 or 7 exposures at 1/3, 2/3 or 1 stop. Wikipedia</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Auto Focus, Manual focus, Face Detection, AF Tracking, 23-Area-Focusing/1 Area Focusing, Single or Continuous AF, AF detection range: EV 0–18 (f/3.5 lens, ISO 160),</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pre AF (Quick AF/Continuous AF), AF+MF, MF Assist(5x, 10x), the GX1 was a very popular camera!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then in August 2013, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7 was announced</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it is a Micro Four Thirds compact mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. It was Panasonic's first Micro Four Thirds camera with a built-in in-body stabilisation system (IBIS) and has a built-in EVF.</span><br />
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GX7 features include:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Magnesium alloy body</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">New 16 MP Live MOS, Four Thirds sensor (25% better Signal to Noise performance, 10% better sensitivity, 10% better saturation level <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_Lumix_DMC-GX7#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup>)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Venus Engine</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">ISO 200 - 25,600 (ISO 125 in extended mode, max. 3,200 in movie mode)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Maximum shutter speed 1/8000 sec.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">AF detective range: -4 EV to 18 EV <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_Lumix_DMC-GX7#cite_note-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Micro Four Thirds mount</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Full HD video capture, including 1920 x 1080/60p (AVCHD or MP4 formats)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Full-time AF and tracking AF also available in cinema-like 24p video with a bit rate of maximum 24 Mbit/s</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Built-in live view finder (electronic view finder, EVF), 90-degree tilt-able, 2.764M pixel resolution with 100% Adobe RGB color reproduction</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Built-in 3", 1040K pixel tilting (45 deg. up, 80 deg. down), touch-screen LCD screen</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Built-in flash (and hot-shoe)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sensor-shift, in-body image stabilization (2-axis)</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">5fps using single AF with mechanical shutter / 60fps with electronic shutter up to 12 frames</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Focus Peaking</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">22 creative effects, HDR</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After bathing in popularity for 2 years, in late 2015, according to Wikipedia, Panasonic launched <span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/lumix-dmc-gx8-prima-facie.html">GX8</a></b></span>, which succeeds the Panasonic GX7, it has a 20MO sensor, an ISO range of 100-25600 and 49 AF points. The Panasonic GX8 can record 4K videos and 4K time-lapse movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was given the <b><span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/lumix-dmc-gx8-prima-facie.html">GX8</a></span></b> to review in September 2015 and I realised the GX8 was a different beast to the GX7.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was much larger and the huge weather sealed body was made to take BIG lenses like the 100-400 comfortably.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best of all, it came with a NEW 20MP sensor and the first M4/3 camera that can utilise the 4-axis in body stabiliser TOGETHER with the 2-axis one from most Lumix lenses to give you a 6-axis system!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The feature that I will part with my money was A HUGE 2,360k OLED electronic viewfinder (EVF)! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The view in the finder is huge and the colour is so natural you would mistaken it as a reflex finder from a DSLR! You got to look inside to believe how good it was!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was easy to understand why Lumix fan accepted the GX8 as Panasonic's <b>TOP END RF-like camera.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Less than a year after the glory set by the GX8, Panasonic DID IT AGAIN with a smaller GX8 look alike and they named it the GX85.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In April 2016, I was the first person to review this smaller GX85 and I asked "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/lumix-gx85-did-panasonic-got-it-right.html">GX85 Did Panasonic GET IT RIGHT?</a></span></b>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I think they did</b> and my report on the "<b>got it right</b>" Lumix received the highest views of all my posts! The camera became the best seller for Panasonic and I was so impressed by its features, I bought one myself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Panasonic fans started to questions why the very desirable GX85 is known as GX7 MarkII in Japan. Some seems to think that the GX7 was NOT actually "replace" by GX8 but by GX7 MarkII (the GX85), the BIGGER GX8 is actually a NEW FAMILY of Lumix.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was HUNKI-DORY for Panasonic for a while until they announced the <span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2018/03/lumix-gx9-better-gx85.html">GX9</a></b></span> a few weeks ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Judging by the name GX9, you would ASSUME it is a GX8 upgrade?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wrong!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The GX9 is known as GX7 MarkIII in Japan!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>GX8 users were furious, they now realised Panasonic has UPGRADED the GX7 TWICE while leaving the GX8 users in the lurch!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One very angry user Aaron Spektor</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> gave me permission to publish his frustration... </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" </span><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">This is a GX90. The update to the GX85.</span><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Panasonic f@#$ed up their own nomenclature. </span></span><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Panasonic told us previously, that the breakdown for models is something like this:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">GH- Pro/SLR</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">G- Mid SLR</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">GX 7/8/9/10....</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pro Randefinder</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">GX 80/85/90/95...</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mid Rangefinder.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">We finally started to follow this stupidity.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">G9- A Pro photo-biased SLR. </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Proper name should have been GH5P</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">(P for photo)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">GX9- This is clearly a GX90</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">A Mid-Rangefinder. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">So if there ever Is a replacement to the GX8, It should have been the GX9, but now theyll have to call it something more confusing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope theyre reading these comments.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">IDIOTS!! "</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OUCH!</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think it is time Panasonic do some DAMAGE CONTROL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>I hope I will be getting some feed back from Panasonic.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The <span style="font-size: large;">NEW Lumix GX9</span> is NOT a replacement for <span style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/lumix-dmc-gx8-prima-facie.html">GX8</a></span>, neither a <span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/lumix-dmc-gx8-performance.html">GX8</a></span> Upgrade!"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you still do not believe me, take a look at this <b>Panasonic G camera History Tree</b> that I created with reference to a low quality snap of the same chart from Japan.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see from the chart, the GX9 is, to Panasonic Japan, the GX7 MarkIII and our <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/lumix-gx85-did-panasonic-got-it-right.html">GX85</a></span> is their GX7 MarkII because BOTH model came from the SAME family.</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The GX8 is by itself, a stand alone model and still NOT replace by a new camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So WHY are some reviewers keep comparing the GX9 with the GX8?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May be we should blame Panasonic for their naming game? :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that we understand each other, let us take a look at this new Lumix offer...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Put the GX9 and GX85 side by side, it is easy to realise both cameras came from the same family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main external difference is that the GX9 have a two tier dial on top, which I find a bit harder to adjust because of the smaller size. The exposure compensation lower dial, being too close to the top dial, is actually slower to change, compare to the GX85's press and adjust dial where your thumb sits!</span><br />
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EVF on both are not very exciting, a far cry from the INCREDIBLE one that came with the <b><span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/lumix-dmc-gx8-last-words.html">GX8</a></span></b>! The EVF of the GX9 is able to tilt, that is the only feature similar yo GX8.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both the GX85 and GX9 came with a little pop up flash that you can tilt and bounce.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The new GX9 (right) is slightly heavier than the GX85, by 18 grams! I Hardly feel it! Could they use the same body, you tell me!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surprisingly, a NEW feature on the GX9 that no other Lumix camera have is the little door where the charging and HDMI ports sit. Give the door a push and it disappeared, like magic, reviewing the two ports, minus the dangling door!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is much harder to extract the SD card from the GX9, the ejected card sits too near to the wall and I can imagine those with big fingers struggling to remove it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Extraction of the GX85 SD card is a breeze :)</span><br />
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Oh.. personally, I hate to charge my battery IN CAMERA, both the 85 and new 9 came with the same charger WITHOUT an external battery cradle, I bought my own so I can charge OUTSIDE the camera. May be that's just me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other "Special" that came with the GX9 are a new MONOCHROME mode that give "even finer graduation" and I read somewhere that the AF speed of the GX9 is FASTER than the GX85. This I got to see, so I did a simple test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both cameras were fitted with the 12-32 kit lens and the videos were shot at the 32mm setting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Can you spot the difference?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't</span>, look like the AF speed of both were the same, so I took the GX9 to shoot a line dancing video...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The original video of "Lonely Drum" was shot with the 12-32 kit lens at 12mm in 4K 25p and I ended up with a whooping 3840X2160 MP4 file that is 2GB+! The Youtube upload was resized to 1920X1080.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am surprise how good the colour rendering of this ISO 1,600 video is! It was done with the kit lens!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The AF tracking was nearly spot on, there were two brief focus "hunt", I am sure this will not happen with the 12-35 F2.8.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I find the hand held video was really smooth and steady, the in built DUAL 2 STABILISER work very well!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Sensor, the Sensor!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course the <b><span style="font-size: large;">coup d'état</span></b> of the GX9 against the older GX85 is the 20.3 MP high-resolution MOS Sensor with Tuned Three-Dimensional Colour Control to detect hue, saturation and brightness for optimal results, on top of that they removed the sharpness zapping AA Filter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In theory, at least, it will be SHARPER than the (AA Filterless) 16MP sensor in the GX85!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But are you able to see the difference?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First of all, take a look at the pictures above, both were taken with the same 12-32 kit lens but the GX9 will produce a LARGER file than the GX85 because it have a sensor with MORE pixels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In real life, even with 2 million MORE pixels, visually, you will not be able to see the difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was a bit bemuse by Panasonic promoting the GX9 as the best street photography camera, since the GX9 is so similar to the GX85, I reckon what it can do, the GX85 can do too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Make sense?</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Some landscape, sunset, giant cruise ship...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Korean food and use the tiny flash for our wefie!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With my 40 years old Leica 35mm F1.4 Summilux-M.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Famous Last Words..</span></b>.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>In April, 2016 when I reviewed the GX85, I asked this question...</b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/lumix-gx85-did-panasonic-got-it-right.html">"LUMIX GX85 Did Panasonic GET IT RIGHT?"</a></span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Personally, I think they did, they updated the very popular GX7, put in the best stabiliser and a 10% sharper filterless 16MP sensor... it came with everything a keen and FUSSY photographer (like Moi) could ever want! IT was an overnight success!</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was so impressed, I bought one myself!</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, with a new name, the GX9 try to have the same success, but instead, getting some negative response from Lumix fan!</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These comment from a forum sums up some of the frustration some Lumix user feel...</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The camera itself is not all that bad. But slapping a highly anticipated premium label on a more so refreshment product is what's ticking people off! </span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To make it worse, they named it properly as GX7 Mk3 in the JP market, so they knew this is not a step up in the high end model in GX line going into the marketing campaign."</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, everyone are entitled to their own opinion, for me, my GX85 is still able to provide what I want and I don't see I will upgrade to another "Got It Right" Lumix with 20MP sensor.</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the other hand, if you are new to the game and looking for a "Got It Right" Lumix, this is the best camera to go for!</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last time I check, the LUMIX GX9 (Body Only) is going for NZ$1,398 at our local <span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://www.photowarehouse.co.nz/shop/shop-by-product/digital-cameras/mirrorless-system-cameras-2/panasonic-dmc-gx9-20-3-mp-body-black/">Photowarehouse</a></span>.</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>** Thanks to <span style="color: #0c343d;"><a href="https://www.panasonic.com/nz/">PANASONIC NEW ZEALAND</a></span> for the review LUMIX GX9**</b></span></i></div>
cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-8976950586847039572018-02-21T17:19:00.002+13:002018-03-05T19:55:03.471+13:00LUMIX G9 High Resolution Mode, Wah Lau Eh!<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Wah Lau Eh</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. What it means: A Hokkien phase which when translated stands for "My Father</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Eh</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">", "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Wah Lau Eh</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">" is an expression typically used to portray surprise or disappointment in Singapore and Malaysia.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Panasonic Lumix G9</span></b> is the first Lumix model that implement the HIGH RESOLUTION MODE (Hi-Res Mode).<br />
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I was intrigued with this mode ever since Panasonic announced it.<br />
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When I received the review G9 from <b>Panasonic New Zealand</b>, I spend nearly three days (out of the seven given days) experimenting with this mode.<br />
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As a matter of fact, if I would plonk down NZ$4,099 for this camera (with the kit lens), the Hi-Res Mode is a deciding factor.<br />
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<b>What is this Hi-Res Mode then?</b><br />
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Basically, when you set the G9 in this mode it will take 8 similar pictures in quick successions, each exposure will have a HALF A PIXEL SHIFT, the camera will then combine the eight shots into a whopping 80MP Hi-Res file.<br />
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The Hi-Res image measures 10368×7776 pixels, and will print to 35x26in using the photo-quality 300 ppi print standard.<br />
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To get more information on this mode, I suggest you visit this <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><a href="https://www.lumixgexperience.panasonic.co.uk/learn/expert-advice/working-in-high-resolution-mode-with-the-lumix-g9/#.Woy30RflAo_">Panasonic UK site</a></b></span>.<br />
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1) Your G9 must be mounted on a solid tripod.<br />
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2) Your subject must not move or having something moving during exposures.<br />
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For this experiment I was using the expensive Leica branded kit lens that come with the G9.<br />
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At the same time I thought this will be a good chance to compare this NZ$1,290 Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm f/2.8-4 ASPH with a Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-35mm f2.8 II which cost $1,195.<br />
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The Panasonic, while being shorter in the long end, have the advantage of a brighter, constant F2.8 light gathering ability.<br />
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<b>** Thanks to Mity Visionz for loaning his Panasonic 12-35 for comparison.</b><br />
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This was my first shot from the Lumix G-9 in High Resolution Mode.<br />
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It was taken from the carpark of the Oversea Terminal, Wellington, New Zealand.<br />
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This is also my favourite vista for lens testing and review.<br />
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Everything look great, except, if you notice the white streak on the top right corner of the clear blue sky!<br />
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What was it?<br />
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An UFO?<br />
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Lets enlarge it and see what it was!<br />
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When I look carefully, there are actually TWO area that needed attention which I circled in red, below.<br />
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Turn out that the white streak in the sky was a FLYING SEA GULL, captured during the EIGHT exposures, the bottom circle were of two men walking, which is acceptable. The streaky sea gull was easily clone out in Photoshop for the Hi-Res print.<br />
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This is Moi holding up a 12X18" photo print of my first Hi-Res capture, the print look great with very fine detail which need to be seen to appreciate.<br />
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Both lenses were shot of the same scene on the same G9 on the same tripod in Hi-Res Mode, I should have checked and make sure the Leica is set at 35mm instead of 40! Apart from that, both captures looked identical. Some observers reckoned the Leica zoom have a slightly better saturation than the Lumix. What you reckon?</div>
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As for a not so scientific test of the sharpness of these two popular zooms, I did a shot of this target below, with both lens...<br />
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Can you notice the difference? I cannot! Come end of the day, they are just lenses, personally I really like the constant F2.8 of the Lumix. But how often do I really need that 2.8 at 35(70mm eqv)?<br />
The Leica no doubt went to F4 at 35mm but the excellent OIS allow it to shoot at slower speed to compensate. Finally, I think the longer end of the Leica at 60 (120mm eqv) will win me over!<br />
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This was shot with the Lumix 12-35. it cannot be a Hi-Res capture because there is a flying sea gull ;)<br />
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<b><i>For me, the new HIGH RESOLUTION MODE of the Lumix G9 is the deciding factor if I intend to buy this exciting camera, I am sure a lot of landscape photographer will do the same.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>If you like STUNNING DETAIL in your landscape capture, this new feature in the Lumix G9 is HARD TO BEAT!</i></b><br />
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My ex colleague got two prints from me, signed by me, no less.. the one I am holding is the Hi-Res print captured with the G9. The "angry" Tui bird was captured with my Lumix GX85.</div>
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FINALLY, I was given a Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 to "try out" for a week. Can you actually get a good idea what this Panasonic top end camera is like in a week? We will see!<br />
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When I Google " <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=pdeLWpK1FMWq8QXCv4LAAw&q=panasonic+lumix+dc-g9+review&oq=panasonic+lumix+dc-g9+review&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0.1700.1700.0.2383.2.1.0.0.0.0.263.263.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.psy-ab..1.1.262.0...0.SwBoF2y-Vs4">panasonic lumix dc-g9 review</a></span></b> ", I receive 352,000 results! Therefore I am not going to repeat what these HUNDRED THOUSANDS of reviews are saying, I am just going to tell you how I FEEL about "Panasonic's best stills camera to date" and my LIKE and DISLIKE of it's features.<br />
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The G9 kit I received from Panasonic New Zealand consist of the G9 body and a beautifully made LEICA DG VARIO-ELMARIT 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 ASPH lens.<br />
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For NZ$4,000 this Panasonic pride and joy came with, to me, a WIDE, GAUDY camera strap!<br />
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In some country, luckily not where I am in, the strap is screaming out "I AM a G9, PLEASE COME and ROB ME!"<br />
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I would use a plain, black strap for this professional shooter!<br />
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The G9 is the first Lumix that look just like a DSLR, it even come with a top LCD screen that can light up, just like all the DSLR!<br />
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I love this feature, may be because I have been using DSLR half of my working life, I like how you can just glance down at your G9 to confirm your settings and to make sure they have not been change.<br />
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The G9 however, is a BIG camera, a little too big and heavy for this old man!Side by side with my old Nikon D300, it is slightly smaller and lighter though.<br />
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The size is however, NOT a design fault, the G9 size is needed to hold a longer, heavier lens nicely. The huge, contoured grip help in this respect and it make the camera a joy and comfortable for extended use.<br />
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For the next 6 days, the G9 went with me everywhere, I try to shoot as many pictures as I can, for that purpose you will have to get use to the ultra sensitive shutter release button ever, you can almost certainly shoot off a bunch of images without wanting to. You get use to it however, it will be nice if you are given an adjustment to the release sensitivity.<br />
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The Lumix G9 is a FAST shooter, as a matter of fact it is the FATEST among all the Lumix!<br />
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You are able to fire a blistering SIXTY FRAMES per second! If you are not careful you can end up with hundreds of pictures on a day out!<br />
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I took the G9 for a short burst to experience it's raw speed at our Oriental Bay...<br />
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Take a look at the composite frame above, they were shot at 12 frames per second, can you imagine what 60 frames will be like?!<br />
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Is this the ultimate sports shooter ever?<br />
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Shame I was given not enough time to find out.<br />
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On the second day, while I was editing some of my shots, I was made aware of a high pitch whine coming from somewhere. At first I thought my computer's HDD is going to die, then I realised it was actually coming from the active G9 (switch on) beside me!<br />
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A quick email to Panasonic New Zealand confirmed there might be something wrong with the G9's built-in five-axis stabilisation, I returned the camera to Auckland.<br />
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Kudos to their fast service, I receive another review set the next day!<br />
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The G9, of course, is fully weather sealed, so is the lens.<br />
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The last two pictures were shot hand held with the 12-60 at F4 and HALF SECOND. What a marvellous stabiliser! Some users claimed they can hand hold to full TWO SECOND and still get very sharp images, I don't know how true the claims are!<br />
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The slowest speed I am able to hand hold for a sharp result was a full second.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Celebrating my birthday at the </span><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PomeloKitchenAndBar/">Pomelo Kitchen and Bar</a></b></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">, Oriental Parade, the 20MP of the G9 provided a flawless backlit "wefie" shot and the high dynamic range of the sensor returned all the details of the heavily under exposed iPhone snap I grab!</span><br />
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It has been an exciting week "playing" with the Lumix G9, it is indeed Panasonic's most capable still imaging optimised camera. It is also a really fast shooter, a very capable camera for action, sports and wild life photography.<br />
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I love how the camera handle, it is a bit big, and the shutter release ultra sensitive to my liking but I can live with them; I like the HUGE viewfinder, the twin card slots...<br />
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Oh, the G9 is also Panasonic first camera that feature HIGH RESOLUTION MODE which I spend a whole day testing, but that will be my next posting.<br />
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Did I miss any feature on this latest offer?<br />
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The PANORAMIC MODE!<br />
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Come on Panasonic, what is the reason to take that away?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Digging into the hundreds of shots I took with this lens and examining the embedded meta data, I was relieved that some shots were taken at full f/2.8 setting!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before I start, I would like to point out that the "bright" f/2.8 setting is only available at 8mm (16mm eq) zoom setting. As soon as you move away from 8mm, you are getting a little less light, until you ended up with f/4 at 18mm.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second week that I was having this ultra-wide zoom, I attended an art exhibition called "<b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/08/rose-young-s-tiny-portions-exhibition-serves-up-wellington-s-popular-dishes.html">TINY PORTIONS</a></span></b>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The art is small but the flavours are big. Grab your magnifying glass for this small-scale free exhibition, featuring iconic Wellington dishes created in miniature by Rose Young of Tiny Portions. The minuscule servings have been chosen by the region’s food personalities and hospitality legends, telling stories of Wellington’s dining scene both historic and current." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Perfect exhibition to test this zoom in shooting close-up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also went to the <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1708/S00532/finally-k-culture-festival-comes-to-town.htm">K-Culture Festival</a></span></b>...</span><br />
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cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-38274891567471260962017-09-27T00:43:00.002+13:002017-09-30T10:36:29.627+13:00Panasonic Leica DG 8-18mm F2.8-4<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Leica</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> DG Vario Elmarit 8-18mm f2.8-4 is an ultra-wide zoom lens for the M43 system. It<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , sans-serif;"> delivers equivalent coverage of 16-36mm on a M43 camera.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><i>The lens employs 15 elements in 10 groups, there are 3 Aspherical Lens, 2 ED Lens, 1 Aspherical ED Lens and 1 UHR Lens. Seven aperture blades are used for a nice bokeh, the closest focusing distance is 23cm and the lens is dust and splash-proof.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">The closest comparable Panasonic ultra-wide zoom is the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/panasonic-lumix-g-vario-7-14-mm-f40.html">Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 7-14 mm f4.0 ASPH</a></span></b><span style="color: #333333;">, one of my favourite ultra-wide zoom and it is only natural that I compare it with this NZ$1,600 beauty.The 7-14 now cost NZ$1,290, I bought mine a few years ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">Mounted on my </span><b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/lumix-gx85-did-panasonic-got-it-right.html">GX85</a></span></b><span style="color: #333333;">, (top photo) the balancing was slightly front heavy, you will be able to use this rather large zoom on the tiny </span><b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2013/12/lumix-dmc-gm1-first-impression.html">Lumix GM1</a></span></b><span style="color: #333333;">, but the combination is so front heavy that you will have problem holding it steady in slower speed, especially the little GM1 do not have stabilizer like the larger GX85.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">I was amazed how well the Leica render those strong back lit scene, there were no flare or glare, the colour contrast were exemplary, may be all those exotic glass in the lens tube are doing their job! Would you pay $1,600 for it?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">I then suspect the images must have their optical distortions corrected when you open them with Photoshop or Lightroom, believe you me, camera manufacturers do that!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">Ah! Not if you open the RAW image in PREVIEW, if there are any, preview (a Mac software) will show all the lens distortions in their glory, well, I did that, still NO BARREL! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><b>I was impressed! Very! </b></span></span></span><br />
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<b>Below are two pictures I took at our open market to show the colour rendering ability of this beautiful zoom.</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No problem! But oops! The last picture was shot with the GM1 and its tiny 12-32 kit lens! :)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Unlike the Lumix 7-14, the Leica 8-18 is able to take 67mm FILTER in front!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I still have my 30 year old NIKON POLARISER with me, in mint condition, I attach it to the Leica and took these shots below, with and without the filter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The difference in colour is hard to see, the one taken with the polariser is a little bit more saturated. I was expecting MORE saturation, but the small differences could also mean the optics are so highly corrected that you do not really need the help of a polarising filter?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Am I making any sense?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Would I buy this NZ$1,698.00 Leica beauty?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>No, because I still got my Lumix 7-14 which is slightly wider and smaller.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>But then, if I was looking for a top quality ultra-wide zoom which is weather proof, sharp, distortion free and able to take filters; the Leica 8-18 is unbeatable! Also not forgetting you can get f/2.8 at 8mm when you need it!</i></b></span>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-76505891970832677012017-08-06T23:57:00.000+12:002017-08-07T21:03:39.480+12:00Ideal Travel Camera for Old Moi<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">In our younger days</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">, we were all guilty of NOT travelling light. In my younger days, travel usually meant work; as a photographer for a newspaper. I recall fondly the time I was with a </span><a href="http://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2011/04/once-upon-time-in-india.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">fashion team to India</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">, shooting for a Singapore paper; travelling with me were 30 KG of photo gear.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I was amazed how I managed to lug all those gears around! But then I was much younger...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">In 2010 I concluded that...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">A good travel camera should have the following quality:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">1) It must be relatively light weight.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">2) Able to take interchangeable lenses.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">3) Digital, with video.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">4) Larger sensor than a point and shoot.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">5) Able to shoot RAW.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Come 2017, I decided that another two features are also a <b>"must have" </b>in my travel camera.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">6) Able to shoot panoramic scene.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">After returning from a long 5 weeks stays in Penang, Hong Kong and Taipei recently, I was asked what make me decide to take what I took for our travel...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">The really tiny, my all time favourite </span><b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2013/12/lumix-dmc-gm1-first-impression.html">LUMIX GM1</a></span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> and the slightly larger and heavier </span><b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/lumix-gx85-did-panasonic-got-it-right.html">LUMIX GX85</a></span></b><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">The GM1 ticked the 1) to 5) on my travel must have list, but the bigger GX85 passed all seven! It also have one of the most advanced IMAGE STABILIZER in the camera body for rock steady <b>"run and gun"</b> snaps!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>So the Lumix GX85 it is!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">What about lenses?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Apart from the supplied 12-32 kit lens, all I need for my expansive travel scenery is my </span><b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/panasonic-lumix-g-vario-7-14-mm-f40.html">Lumix 7-14</a></span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> ultra-wide zoom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">With these two lenses, I have a coverage from 14mm to 64mm! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">When you are a SENIOR and depends on a WALKING STICK, you do not want to lug more than necessary!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I find the Lumix GX85 with 7-14 is a ideal RUN and GUN lens where you just virtually point and shoot, even from a moving bus! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">No point to panic, I put that SD card away, making sure I will not use it till I recover my lost pictures. When I got back to Wellington I use the Lexar Image Rescue 5 to recover all my Hong Kong shots, JPEGs only, mind you, wish they can recover my RAW files too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Most likely I was deleting some "bad shots" and I accidentally deleted all of them. Not possible? Believe me it is possible! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">A big, heavy, complicated DSLR do nothing towards a nice shot by someone totally unfamiliar with your gear!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Before I hand over my GX85, I make sure it is on "A" (aperture priority), at F4.5 or 5.6; ISO 400 or 800 if indoor. Only the 12-32 kit lens is use, the big ultra-wide will scare your snapper. The lens is always set at 12mm (24 eqv) for wide enough coverage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">So far, all our pictures taken by "strangers" are sharp, thanks to the wonderful anti-shake stabilizer in the GX85. I even watched in horror when one of the helpful snapper virtually jabbed the shutter button shaking the camera! Somehow the GX85 came out winning!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"But I am able to shoot all my travel pictures with my iPhone!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Not 100%, you don't get a real optical ultra-wide lens on an iPhone, do you?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">But I DO carry my preloved iPhone during my travel and when I am too lazy to take my GX85 out and when I can get away with just a "small JPEG", I use my phone ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><b>I notice the large amount of DISTORTION on the left and right sides of the picture, see how BIG SIZE my two friends became?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i>May be soon or may be one day, mobile phones will come with a larger sensor, optical zoom with ultra-wide coverage; look like I still have to carry my GX85.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Until the day Panasonic produce a GM1 size camera with GX85's features, look like I still have to carry the heavier brother! </i></b></span>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-86560594703403186672017-02-14T15:53:00.000+13:002018-04-26T14:52:39.091+12:00LUMIX GX850, a SELFIE DELIGHT<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The new Lumix GX850</span></b> (known as the GX800 outside the US), which PANASONIC call the <i><b>“ultimate </b></i></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">entry-level </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>high-performance </b></i></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><b>compact mirrorless camera”</b></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, came with a 180-degree tilting touchscreen, one look and you know this NZ$900.00 compact is aiming at the younger, SELFIE generation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I received this shinning, spanking new GX850 from Panasonic New Zealand, I was intrigue..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is this good looking, slightly hefty compact really an <b><i><span style="font-size: large;">entry-level</span></i></b> mirrorless camera with interchangeable lenses from Panasonic?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How did it compare with my favourite Lumix GM1 which have been providing me with great photography services for more than TWO years?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I discovered that the GX850 is heavier and very slightly longer and taller than the GM1. I am still able to stuff it in my jacket's pocket, but you will be conscious of the extra weight and bulk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like the GM1, the new Panasonic offering come with the same 12-32 retractable kit zoom. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This tiny kit zoom is one of my favourite lens, it is compact and very sharp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The other two main features that lure me to upgrade my GM1 are the PANORAMIC MODE (4K capable!) and the touchscreen that can flips up by 180 degrees for selfie shooting or filming!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, not forgetting the 16MP sensor thats has the low-pass filter removed for slightly sharper results!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The picture of the New Zealand bee on the flower was taken in our garden with the 12-32 kit zoom at 32mm and F5.6, the bottom picture was a 100% enlargement of the same shot. You can't say you are not impress with this "optically slow" kit zoom!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The same lens, I reckon is PERFECT for landscapes or when you travel, I shot these on top of our Mt Victoria Look-Out on a fine sunny day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 12mm end of the kit zoom has a similar 24mm field of view as a full-frame lens, I find this focal length is wide enough for most travel photography, 14mm is just "too long".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The "Big Deal" of our new GX850 however, is the special flip-up screen!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By flipping the touch screen 180 degree, the screen automatically go into it's SELFIE MODE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So what, you reckon?</span><br />
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Take a look at the above picture carefully, that is a selfie shot of Moi, pointing my GM1 at the GX850 flip-up display.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the camera go into the selfie mode, it automatically select my face (the square) and it lock the focus on my eye (the white cross) for a sharp picture!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Notice the touch menu on the right side of the screen? Those are the settings and preferences you can set to produce how you want your selfie to look like!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Starting from the bottom, the last tab allow you to set the countdown timer and how many shots you want taken in succession.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this instance, I set it to take 4 pictures in 3 seconds interval.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Do they work? </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To find out I have to look for a vain beauty but I am sure plenty of ladies would love to give these "beautifying" settings a try out ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One setting that I really wanted to try out is the so call “Background Control”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to Panasonic, this selfie feature is able to change the blurriness for the background of detected faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the Defocus setting is selected, faces and background further from the camera will be blurred. However, if you activate the “CLEAR” setting, the camera will record and render faces and the background with clarity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will look into these features later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here are three shots I took with my family and friends from Malaysia, in selfie mode using the "out stretch" arm method. The GX850 even allow you to trigger the camera while in your left or right arm by providing firing buttons on both sides of the camera!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is NOT EASY to take a good selfie (in these cases, a "wefie"), having a LONG arm definitely help! </span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to the instruction manual, the GX850 is able to take a "Panoramic sefie/wefie"! I have not try that out, the instruction was a bit lengthy but I am sure once you get the hang of it, it will a real eye opener!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Apart from this innovative selfie feature, the new Lumix GX850 behave like a top range Lumix camera with all the bells and whistles..</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For an "entry-level" mirrorless camera, the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GX850 offers an impressive feature sets,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> you are getting an interchangeable lens camera with a 4/3 sized sensor without AA filter for extra sharpness, a compact kit zoom with wide coverage, a flip-able touchscreen that is perfect for selfies, Wifi and USB charging.</span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Differentiating it from most rivals at this NZ$900 price point, the GX850 </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">come with 4k Video and 4k Photo as a bonus. I wish there is a viewfinder and body-based stabilisation, but I can live with that. </span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>I was informed by Panasonic New Zealand we can expect the GX850 by the end of Febuary 2017 for about NZ$900.00 with the 12-32 kit zoom.</b></i></span><br />
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cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-13881295217959166842016-12-18T00:53:00.001+13:002017-05-11T22:10:23.003+12:00LUMIX G85 a BETTER GX85?<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In September</b></span> at the 2016 <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.photokina.com/photokina/index-9.php">PHOTOKINA</a></span></b>, Panasonic announced 4 new 4K capable cameras, the compact DMC-LX10, the Hybrid Bridge camera FZ2500, the G85, a DSLR look alike system camera and a mock up, not yet completed, super duper, advance system camera the GH5.<br />
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My interest was with the <b><span style="font-size: large;">DMC-G85</span></b> which inherited the same 16 MP, AA filterless sensor of the more compact <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/lumix-gx85-did-panasonic-got-it-right.html">GX85</a></span></b> which I reviewed and love. As a matter of fact, I almost bought a GX85 until I found out what the G85 have and the GX85 do not!<br />
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I was trying to get the G85 from Panasonic New Zealand for a review, there was a nearly two months delay because someone else was having the camera. Also, some oversea reviewers discovered there was a "jitter" or "jump" during video filming.<br />
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Panasonic have to come out with a new firmware update to fix that jitter problem and again that delayed the reviewing a bit.<br />
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The photo on the left show the "range-finder" styled, compact DMC-GX85 and the much thicker and taller "DSLR style" DMC-G85.<br />
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Apart from being bigger, the G85 have more dials and buttons than the GX85.<br />
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However, the most important difference that G85 got and GX85 do not are...<br />
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<i>*The new Panasonic 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH POWER OIS lens.</i><br />
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<i>* I.S. DUAL 2 image stabiliser.</i><br />
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<i>* Weather tight and dust proof seals.</i><br />
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<i>* Full Tilt Swivel Screen.</i><br />
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<i>* Much quieter shutter.</i><br />
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The "Kit Lens" for this new camera is the new 11 elements 12-60mm F3.5-5.6  (24-120mm<br />
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I like the solid construction of this lens, I have a feeling that optically, this is a really good "general" lens. I am happy that finally, 12mm is accepted by kit lens designer!<br />
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The 12-60 captured my fav Oriental Bay vistas on both the G85 and GX85. As expected, both images look identical (same type of sensors).<br />
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These were shot on the 12mm (24mm eq) setting.<br />
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The image below was at the 60mm end, it is sharp as tack and I cannot see any blue fringes! The contrast, colour saturation of this kit lens is outstanding!<br />
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I decided to take a walk at the CBD and take some shots of buildings, looking at the images, I think you will realise why you need a minimum of 12mm (24mm eq) while you are travelling. Believe you me, the 14mm (28mm eq) is just NOT WIDE ENOUGH!<br />
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Notice the lack of <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://photographylife.com/what-is-distortion">BARREL DISTORTION</a></span></b> at this very wide 12mm setting! Love this lens!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While still in the city, <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">I walk pass this gift shop, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">I just took a quick snap of this display through a thick glass window....</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">The close-up of the green puppy is a 200% enlargement from the same shot! And look at the WHITE RIBBON, see how detail are retained?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">KIT LENS is getting to be frightening good now, once upon a time we use to call them KID LENS because of their so so sharpness. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">A great kid.. oops, kit lens (Lumix 12-60) on the new G85 can do wonder!</span></span><br />
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Why do I need full-frame? H</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">a!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">Digital camera sensors can capture a wide range of brightness values, but there is a limit. If you're faced with a scene that has a really wide dynamic range (or brightness range) than the camera's sensor can cope, you may have a problem!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">I told her to go ahead and after s</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">he click, she look at the camera preview and from her look, thinking may be I gone loco... just look at the extremely dark picture!</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.24px;"><br /></span>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.24px;"><br /></span>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">This test is to separate the man (G85) from the boys (small sensors, mobile phones) <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: middle;" title="wink emoticon"><img alt="" aria-hidden="1" class="img" height="16" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v6/f57/1/16/1f609.png" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: -3px;" width="16" /><span aria-hidden="1" class="_7oe" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; width: 0px;">;)</span></span> Ha ha ha..</span></div>
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Like GX8, Dual IS (Image Stabilisation) is feature in the GX85. With selected lenses you are able to enjoy SEVEN axis improved image stabilisation!<br />
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The new G85 is even better, it come with version 2 of the DUAL I.S. known as DUAL I.S. 2 or DUAL 2.<br />
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Alas, DUAL 2 is only available to Lumix lenses that are compatible or lenses that have the updated firmware loaded. You will be able to confirm the operation of DUAL 2 if you can see the icon on your rear screen.<br />
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I understand that DUAL 2 is even more effective than the one in GX85 and you are able to get sharp picture with even slower speed! Really? <br />
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Lets try my "telephone test" ;)<br />
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The same test was pioneered in my <span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/lumix-gx85-did-panasonic-got-it-right.html">GX85 review</a></span>.<br />
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Both cameras were using the same 12-60 lens and 5 pictures each were taken at speeds of 1/4. 1/2 and a FULL SECOND. The sharpest pictures were picked.<br />
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As you can see, the G85 with DUAL 2 is sharper at one second than the GX85 which only have the earlier version of IS DUAL.<br />
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I find it mind boggling that you are able to HAND HOLD and capture a SHARP, ONE SECOND exposure!!<br />
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<b><i>Image stabilisers has come a long way, in the near future, "camera shake" will be a phenomenon of the past! ;)</i></b><br />
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When the new G85 was reviewed in October, some reviewers discovered when recording video using Dual I.S. 2, <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2016/11/14/panasonic-says-firmware-fix-incoming-for-g85-image-stabilization-issue">there are issues</a></span></b> which may arise that reduce the smoothness of the video recording, there were noticeable jitter and "jump", particularly during panning movements.<br />
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Kudos to Panasonic, they issued an official statement when the problem was reported...<br />
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"Less than a week ago, Panasonic became aware of some reports that the G85's image stabilization wasn't delivering the same level of smooth performance that the GX85 does while slow panning in video mode. Panasonic is working to solve the issue with a firmware update as soon as we can. Panasonic appreciates all the valuable feedback and always focuses on meeting or exceeding our customers' expectations."<br />
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Panasonic NZ informed me the latest firmware has been loaded before they ship the camera to me, two weeks ago.<br />
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By coincidence, my wife's line dancing group was having their year end party and I reckon it is a good place to check out the DUAL 2 video steadiness!<br />
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<b><i>This Holly Jolly Christmas line dance was shot hand held with the kit lens (12-60). </i></b><br />
<b><i>Look pretty steady to me and the latest firmware update seems to get rid of the "jitter".</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Wet,wet.wet...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were 5 rainy days during the two weeks the G85 was with me, not that I love taking pictures in the rain but when it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.24px;"> was spitting down this afternoon, it got the Lumix G85 review camera pretty soaked!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">No harm done! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">The G85 is completely WEATHER SEALED (better be!), even the 12-60 kit lens that came with it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">This bring back memory of the time I was working for The Star newspaper in Penang and just got my brand new NIKON F3 SLR.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">Took it to a football match (at night) and it started to drizzle, BOOM, the so call PRO Single-lens-reflex film camera WENT DEAD!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">I found out later that the very expensive camera</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; letter-spacing: -0.24px;"> inherited a deadly design flaw, even if a DROP of water enter the cable release hole will short out the RM1,400 (lots of money then!) camera instantly! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">It was much later that Nikon brought out a F3P (P for PRESS, not Pro, ha ha) that included a fix, they COVERED the shutter release with a rubber cap! </span></span><br />
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The G85 also come with tons of "Creative Exposure Modes", some give you strange effect that I find weird, it is not for me, but for some, it is there if you like "effects"!<br />
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However, there are some subtle ones that I like.<br />
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In the short two weeks that I have the G85, I took pictures of different subjects, one location I love is the <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.californiagarden.co.nz/">California Garden Centre</a></span></b> in <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramar,_New_Zealand">Miramar</a></span></b>. The vast colour hues and shades allow lenses to show their best.<br />
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I love panoramic mode on digital camera, the first time I try to take a pano with the G85, I was shock that the Pano Mode is NOT on the mode dial! I found out after a quick Google_ing that Panasonic have "hide" this mode in the "SCENE" mode, No 25 to be exact.<br />
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An afternoon of BEE WATCHING at the California Garden Centre, Miramar.<br />
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Early summer, the NZ BUMBLE BEES are still very tiny, they seems to love the LAVENDER flower at the centre. Photographing them are easy with the Lumix G85 but getting a SHARP picture is very, very hard! By right, I should have a fast MACRO lens but I am reviewing the G85 with the 12-60 kit lens.<br />
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However, if you are able to get that razor thin depth-of-field in line, this kit lens might just surprise you!<br />
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The close-up are 100% from the larger picture.<br />
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<b><i>Did I not tell you I am very impress with this 12-60 kit lens? :)</i></b><br />
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You can actually buy this weather sealed lens by itself, a quick check at our local Photo Warehouse told me it cost a whopping NZ$598.00!<br />
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To get the G85 KIT with this lens will cost you NZ$1,794.00, since a G85 BODY alone is costing NZ$1,499.00. The lens on the kit is only NZ$295.00.<br />
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Does that make any sense? ;)<br />
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Here are more images taken with the G85, the birds was shot with the G85 with my 45-175 X zoom.<br />
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<b>Famous Last Words...</b><br />
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<b><i>In many ways, the G85 is a BETTER camera than the GX85, it got more features and it is weather sealed.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>I will not hesitate recommending this camera if you don't mind a slightly larger camera than the GX85.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Me?</i></b><br />
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<b><i>I was DREAMING of a weather sealed GX85 with DUAL I.S. 2 and FULL articulate screen!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Bring it on, Panasonic!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Thanks to Panasonic New Zealand for the review G85 and GX85.</i></b><br />
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cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0Wellington, New Zealand-41.2864603 174.77623600000004-41.6685158 174.13078900000005 -40.9044048 175.42168300000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-21993327715836536372016-09-08T20:29:00.000+12:002016-09-09T23:58:23.405+12:00Déjà vu - SEE NO EVIL!<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "lucida grande";">1987, the year of living dangerously</span>!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Aussies</b></span> started it all with the coverage of Barlow and Chambers drug trafficking case.<br />
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I was working for a local <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Penang</span> paper; young and reckless, shooting for the paper and moonlighting for the Australian agencies! Money was fast and good.... we never see so many photographers and "green bills" in our life!<br />
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The high court in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Penang</span> was like a media zoo!...<br />
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The important thing about covering a high-pressure-high-court case is a electronic flash with very fast recycling time! In 1987, Quantum battery was the "King "! I decided to built one that is FASTER!<br />
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<a name='more'></a>What I did was to strip my compact <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Metz</span> 32CT3 and connect a male video cable plug on the flash (see red circle in the picture of the flash), the internal + and - cables for the battery chamber were then connected to the plug in series.<br />
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I then bought some plastic AA battery carriers from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Tai</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Huat</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Hardware</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Aradite</span>-cement them together to take 6 AA batteries. Now with another 4 batteries in the flash, I have the "juices" of TEN batteries IN SERIES! This "power <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">pak</span>" was then connected to the flash's "ear" (plug) with a cable. My technician friend tested the output and said I was bloody mad because at the capacitor he measured a whopping 30 amp charge!<br />
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He reckoned if I use the flash in the rain, it will electrocute me!<br />
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<b><i>So KIDS, Don't do it at home! You can get FRIED and I am not talking about Kentucky :)</i></b><br />
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Young <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">rooky</span> <b><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Goh</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Chai</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Hin</span></b>, then a snapper for Reuters was covering all the drug cases, being ex-Star and my ex-protege; he was allowed to use our processing and transmission facilities in our photo dept.<br />
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I remembered <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Goh</span> was laughing at my "home brewed" power <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">pak</span> and he challenged mine against his Rm 300.00 Quantum... well, guess who has the last laugh? At f8, ASA400; auto coverage from 7ft-15ft range, my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Metz</span> "rabbit-ear" flash zapped 24 blazing shots none-stop before the ready light went off. The Quantum? FOUR shots if you are lucky! Ha ha ha..<br />
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Before all you young <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">photogs</span> run off to do what I did, DON'T! Tell you why another time :-)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Back to the story:</i></span></b><br />
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<b>Frank <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Foerster</span></b>, a West German charged for suspecting drug <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">trafficking</span> and who has been in jail for three years waiting for trail was taken to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Penang</span> High Court early 87.<br />
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First day of the trail, the court was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">swamped</span> by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Leicas</span> trotting Germans....<br />
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On his way to the "Black Maria", Frank was taken out of the court room by 4 or 5 police and half a dozen of truncheons waving riot police.<br />
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For some unknown reason the police and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">FRU</span> (Field Reserved Units) of Malaysia tried to hide his face from the media!! This was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">unprecedented</span>! Never happened before!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM57X3wLgphUEM3pL4E58y1fmqXWyib_3wejx02IEqxzJoytsdY6CRgTZZGu7CD8sltn24Ag-60u6FQdmAGJiGivAQXx_YF4svldib_O-ZFBwRMota7y1W1R4r_yjwJG_i66vx0RjbEyt_/s1600/No_Evil_2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478520891357117122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM57X3wLgphUEM3pL4E58y1fmqXWyib_3wejx02IEqxzJoytsdY6CRgTZZGu7CD8sltn24Ag-60u6FQdmAGJiGivAQXx_YF4svldib_O-ZFBwRMota7y1W1R4r_yjwJG_i66vx0RjbEyt_/s1600/No_Evil_2.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The media went top gear, there were mad push, pushing, cursing and all kind of "ugliness" came alive when all of us try to get a scoop shot!<br />
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The media circus chased the police team down the stairs and a couple of the photographers fell down the stairs!<br />
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I took a "grab" shot with my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Leica</span> M3 and 28mm lens which was loaded with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Ektachrome</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">transparencies</span> of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Goh</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Chai</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Hin</span> being man handled by a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">FRU</span> personnel. He was actually holding on to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Goh's</span> camera wrist while the other police officers concealed Frank's face with their police caps!<br />
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When we all got our composure back and continued our mad chase, Frank was taken away in the "Black Maria" van.... young <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Goh</span> was cursing the police in all kind of words we normally will not use to our enemy :-) while I desperately trying to stop a young <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">FRU</span> from hitting him!!<br />
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<b>Back at The Star and after listening to our account, our Editors decided to run my picture to protest against how the media were treated!</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Alas The Star newspaper had the GUTS to run my picture the next day, seven column right across the front page! We were so proud of the paper!!</span></b><br />
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The next morning at the high court all the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">FRU</span> men were lined up in front of us and a stern warning were given by their captain on the way they treated the media. Bravo.... sad to say, I don't think the present Star will DARE to run such a picture again! The Star today has lost it's GUTS and journalistic vision of yesteryear! What say ye, Star Editors?<br />
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<b>RIP.... <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Pre</span> 1988 Star, we were all proud to work and slog for yer!!</b><br />
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(Frank <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Foerster</span> was found not guilty and was released, Australians; Barlow and Chamber were hung in Malaysia).<br />
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<b><i>Niall, a professional photographer living in Belfast Northern Ireland reckoned:</i></b><br />
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<b><i>"Wonderful story <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Leow</span>, court cases are always drama filled, but when the police and the media tangle, its never pretty :-)). My photography mentor Brendan Murphy is about to retire from service after 30 years in the business, I'll miss his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">advice</span> and his dry whit. keep up the great stories and pics."</i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Hermo</span> commented:</i></b><br />
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<b><i>"The drama was well framed and the story accompanying it compliments the photo and helps the viewer become one with the story. I don't know if I would have the guts to clash with police to take photos, but I guess it gives one a hell of an adrenaline rush!"</i></b><br />
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<b>Famous Last Words:</b><br />
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A few months after my flash modification, I was using it to cover a function at a Baling rubber estate where Dr M was attending. Before he arrive, I test fired the flash and it BLEW up with a explosive BANG! I nearly dropped my camera! It was the capacitor being ruptured! I dare not imagine the consequences if the flash did this while pointed at Dr M!<br />
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I had a new capacitor replaced and few weeks later, the flash tube then <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">busted</span>! It was also replaced... call it nostalgia or whatever, this little "banger" sure serve me well! And I still got the little bugger :)<br />
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<b>Now you know why YOU SHOULD NOT do it at home!</b><br />
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<b>Happy Shooting!</b>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-390059191330554462016-08-16T01:04:00.001+12:002016-08-16T01:11:46.229+12:00Panasonic Leica 12mm f/1.4 - BOKEH-LICIOUS!!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">In my recent</span></b> posting about this very bright, pricey super-wide <b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/panasonic-leica-dg-summilux-12mm-f14.html">"Low Light King"</a></span></b>, I follow up with a <span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/panasonic-leica-dg-summilux-12mm-f14_7.html"><b>"Second Take"</b></a></span> where I compared the NZ$2,500 lens with cheaper glass, I received some feed back from Panasonic Hew Zealand...</span><br />
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That timely feed back reminded me that I should look into one of the main attraction this lens can offer... NICE, CREAMY BOKEH!</div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">For those that don't know what </span><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh">BOKEH</a></span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> is...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , , sans-serif;"><b>The visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">A "nice" bokeh will help to isolate your subject from a distracting background. In general but not always, a large aperture lens will exhibit nice bokeh.</span></div>
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<b>This is my first "Bokeh Specific" shot taken with the Leica 12/1.4 at FULL F1.4, notice how sharp (in focus area) is? The creamy bokeh melt smoothly into the background. Very nice indeed!</b><br />
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This is a 100% crop from the same picture, there is a trace of <b><span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration">CA</a></span></b>, considering this was shot at F1.4, mind boggles! Well done Panasonic!!<br />
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The lousy winter weather did a round about, I decided to take the Leica 12mm to our Rose Garden for some bokeh shots.<br />
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Being winter, there are no roses to photograph, but roses are not what I was after, my target was the beautiful orchids in the giant green house!<br />
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All the flower shots were taken using the GX8 and Leica 12mm, hand held.<br />
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Framing was with the flexible LCD screen and the desired focus-point was set by touching the touch screen with my left thumb.<br />
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<b><i>The Panasonic Leica 12/1.4 deliver the best bokeh among the lenses I came across! </i></b><br />
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<b><i>Let me see if I can talk to my Bank Manager ;)</i></b><br />
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cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-69309993951316965382016-08-12T23:00:00.000+12:002016-08-13T21:12:18.580+12:00PANASONIC-LEICA DG 100-400 - Second Take<b><span style="font-size: large;">The First Time </span></b>when we visited the <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Zoo">Wellington Zoo</a></span></b> was in 1988, (the first week when we arrived from Penang); since then, we probably went back only once!<br />
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But yesterday, taking advantage of a rare SUNNY WINTER DAY, my Home Minister and Moi went walking down the memory lane again!<br />
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Apart from reliving our lost youth, I had another mission on hand, to give the <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/07/panasonic-leica-dg-100-400-first.html">PANASONIC/LEICA 100-400 super zoom</a></span></b> a good run for their money!<br />
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That is yours truely at the Wellington Zoo with the Lumix GX8 and the hefty 100-400 on my neck, sorry for the fake Nikon camera strap; that was the only neck strap I can find among my junk!<br />
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That is my better half with a free roaming emu, both pictures were shot with my little GM1. <br />
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Pictures you see below are all taken with the <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/lumix-dmc-gx8-prima-facie.html">Lumix GX8</a></span></b> with the 100-400 (unless specified) at different zoom range, apertures and shutter speeds.<br />
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This was taken outside my house, from the deck; before we head to the zoo.</div>
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We were shown a NZ <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara">TUATARA</a></span></b> (<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The tuatara </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sphenodon punctatus</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> has been protected by law since 1895).</span><br />
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The <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_monkey">BOLIVIAN SQUIRREL MONKEY</a></span></b> with the largest brain to body ratio of all primates at 1 to 17, the ratio for human is 1 to 35!<br />
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The shots of the <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran_tiger">SUMATRAN TIGER</a></span></b> was not as sharp as I thought, the bottom crop was only 50%, as you can see, it is quite soft. I blamed the very thick glass panel that was in front of me which I shot through. That must have buggered up the sharpness!<br />
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<b><i>Data: ISO 400 F/5.8 1/500 second 318mm (663mm Eq).</i></b></div>
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My last lot of pictures were shot above the chimpanzee dwelling, this panorama will give you some idea how far I was from these primates.<br />
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The pano was shot with the tiny 12-32 on the GX8 in pano setting.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "san francisco" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.24px; line-height: 19.32px;"><br /></span>
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<b style="text-align: center;">Famous Last Words...</b><br />
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<b><i>Do I enjoy using this super-zoom lens?</i></b><br />
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<b><i>Very much!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>I like the powerful 200-800mm Eq zoom range that allow me to "pull" my subject from afar...</i></b><br />
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<b><i>How this solidly built optics balance beautifully on the GX8 and the auto focus speed is very swift.</i></b><br />
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<i><b>My only concern is the zoom action from 250-400 is "a bit stiffer" than I thought, but this might be the way it was designed to prevent "<span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_creep">zoom creep</a></span>". </b></i><br />
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<i><b>Zoom creep can be totally eliminated from this lens by using the zoom lock ring in the front of the lens.</b></i><br />
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<b><i>For delivering a HUGE 200-800mm Eq range, the 1 Kg weather sealed lens is actually quite light. At least I survived the 4 hours walking at the zoo with the GX8 combo!</i></b><br />
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<b><i>If you shoot a lot of birds and wild-life, take a look at this beauty.</i></b>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-49342271586824168932016-08-07T15:55:00.000+12:002016-08-07T15:55:14.163+12:00Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH, Second Take..<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I have</span></b> mix feeling on this pricey Panasonic / Leica optics, some of my friends think this prime lens is specially created for low light photography; in some way, they are correct, I informed them this exotic glass is also very good for day to day shots and landscapes photography.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>"For NZ$2,400.00 a pop, surely there must be a cheaper optics that give similar results?"</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That question got me going to compare this well made 12mm or 24mm Eq optics with 2 of my own Panasonic lenses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To make sense of my comparison, we must only compare a focal length of 24mm Eq and f/5.6. Pointless to compare f/1.4 on the Panasonic/Leica with a cheaper lens on f/4, most likely the expensive Leica will loose! So lets standardise our test aperture at f/5.6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of my friend think I am loosing it because the first lens I choose is the tiny <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/lumix-g-vario-12-32mm-on-om-d-e-m5.html">Lumix G Vario 12-32</a></span></b>, the kit lens that came with my tiny GM1.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 18.48px;">The ultra compact Lumix G Vario 12-32 f3.5/5.6 zoom have a 24-64mm equivalent focal length. I will just set it to it's 24mm Eq to compare with the 24mm Eq Summilux.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was really hard to tell the difference even with the 100% crops from the two lenses, zooming in even further, I can see the <b>Summilux IS SHARPER</b> than the little Lumix kit lens at 12mm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The million dollars question, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">since the little Lumix cost less than NZ$250, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">is that extra sharpness worth an extra NZ$2,000? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Summilux 12mm was put against my favourite Lumix super-wide zoom!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;">My <b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/panasonic-lumix-g-vario-7-14-mm-f40.html">Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4 ASPH</a></span></b> zoom have a Eq 14-28mm zoom range, it was set to its 12mm range for this test. Again both lens were shot at f/5.6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The top picture was shot with the Panasonic/Leica 12mm and the bottom, with the Lumix 7-14 at 12mm. Both were taken at f/5.6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My casual comparison revealed that there are cheaper alternatives to capture somewhat visually similar results what this NZ$2,500 super lens can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The extra money you are paying for is for the very "bright" optics that allow you to capture in low available light condition, the delightful aperture ring that allow you to set your f-stop "Leica way", the solid built and the weather sealed feature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If money is not a problem, I will love to have one of this Summilux!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8131515588069490622.post-13662477671239828582016-08-03T01:20:00.001+12:002016-08-07T15:57:10.170+12:00Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH - the Low Light King?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I was lucky</span></b> to have this incredible <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH Prime Lens, send to me from Panasonic New Zealand, last Friday. I discovered this Leica branded 24mm Eq wide angle beauty is not even in the NZ shops yet! WOOHOO!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't let anyone tell you this is a "small lens', it is NOT, it is solid, chunky and heavy. In Leica tradition, very well made.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is also Panasonic's widest and BRIGHTEST 24mm Eq M43 weather-sealed, auto-focus super-wide.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Auto focus is very fast and you can switch to manual focus in a flash and oh.. you also get a clickable APERTURE RING that will make the Leica fan boy grin!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To enjoy all these features will set you back a cool NZ$2,300!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">To make all those features possible and to achieve the ultra bright light collecting quality, the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">lens is comprised of 15 elements in 12 groups, including two aspherical lenses, two UED (Ultra Extra-Low Dispersion) glass and an ED (Extra-Low Dispersion)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The weather has not been kind, I was busy trying to test the other just as expensive <b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/07/panasonic-leica-dg-100-400-first.html">Panasonic Leica branded lens</a></span></b> anyway.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Tuesday winter weather turns sunny, but I concluded that the best way to test this 24mm Eq optics is AT NIGHT, LOW LIGHT, afterall, it is designed for that purpose, no?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So at 9.30pm, after picking up Le General from her line dancing, we did a short drive to my favourite "lens-test location", the Oversea Terminal area.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All the shots were done at F2, a stop from F1.4. Speed was between 1/15, 1/8. ISO800.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The OST car park and a selfie, my friend was commenting that I took TWO parking lots! Ha ha ha.. the place was empty ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A couple walking past their million dollar seafront apartment, they were trying to avoid my lens, sorry, too late.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was where the Oversea Terminal use to be, the apartments here cost more than a million NZ$ each.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but I am bloody impress by how this lens render the shadow detail at night!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Famous Last Words...</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>It is very easy to fall in love with this Japanese/German beauty, I love the aperture ring where I can set my desired F stops just like lenses used in my prime, I love the "night performances of this very wide lens.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Where can I find NZ$2,300?</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><b>NEXT... <span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://cyleow.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/panasonic-leica-dg-summilux-12mm-f14_7.html">Summilux 12mm.. the Second Take</a></span></b></span></span>cy.leowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584901733097116133noreply@blogger.com0