08-13-2009, 02:30 AM
you made me curious and I started reading about the G1 at dpreview
make sure you read both reviews and user opinions before deciding. If you expected an optical viewfinder, make sure you understand that there is none on the G1
And so we have a new system with a new lens mount and this, the G1; the world's first electronic viewfinder interchangeable lens camera. From the outside it looks for all the world like a conventional SLR (albeit a very small one) - we're told that the design (complete with faux prism 'hump') is deliberately conservative; Panasonic's research has shown that its target market (particularly in Japan) still prefers a camera that looks like a camera is supposed to, and wasn't going to risk falling at the first hurdle by producing something too radical.
On the inside of course it is indeed radically different to every SLR on the market; the mirror and pentaprism/pentamirror viewfinder is gone, replaced by a live view-only system using either the newly-developed high resolution electronic viewfinder or the large articulated rear screen (which, interestingly, has a 3:2 aspect ratio - not the 4:3 ratio of the sensor).
make sure you read both reviews and user opinions before deciding. If you expected an optical viewfinder, make sure you understand that there is none on the G1