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LUMIX G3 - The Camera Rocks ! So Far With The Best Amount

If you have looked on with the help of dismay as Panasonic abandoned the supporter small M4/3 and instead chases an inferior and smaller and dumber and dumber form factor using the GF line, then you now use a reason to be happy. It appears Panasonic is positioning the LUMIX G3 when the successor to the GF1. They might not exactly know that but that is could view it. Viewed as a replacement for the G2, the LUMIX G3 is a tiny let down. Much the way the GF2 was compared to the GF1. However, the LUMIX G3 is an ideal replacement to the GF1. It may be a little bigger but not that a whole lot. The physical controls are the same but these days there is touch screen controls and to replace many of the missing physical controls there can be the C1 and C2 modes to the mode selector. a Before continuing an issue that very few people seem to understand with these camera systems is the lens, in no way the camera body, determines how large the camera is. I will use extremes to illustrate the idea. Put a 14mm f/2. 5 about the GH2 and it seems very small. You can't put it in a shirt pocket however will fit inside a jacket back pocket. Also, you can get it in the small carry case. It is so small and light I use a wrist strap and not your neck strap. Put a 100-300mm on a LUMIX G3 and it will be huge and because of the contour factor really unusable.

The first thing to see about the G3 is the price tag is $699. That is $100 cheaper ın comparison to the G1 or G2 at launch and $200 cheaper compared to the GF1. In addition to being $200 cheaper compared to a GF1, the LUMIX G3 has a integral EVF (would have been nicer rangefinder style) in addition to a swivel screen.

Another nice change from G2 and the GF line is definitely the new sensor. Panasonic and Olympus are using a 3 generation old sensor in each and every m4/3 line except the GH series. The Panasonic G3 now has a completely new 16mp sensor and updated image handling engine. The G3 takes slightly better pictures as opposed to the GH2.

As far as IQ will go, the m4/3 are not as good as DX sensors and in addition they never will be as good. The same way as DX sensors will never be competitive with FX sensors. All else being identical. With that said, IQ merits some discussion as most people don't really understand it and most "professional" review sites confuse the whole entire issue. Here is everything you require to understand on the issue. First all generation of sensors the differences relating to m4/3, DX, and FX decreases. Eventually the difference become negligible. Where that point is depends on what for you to do. IQ is very dependent on the size of what you could do with the image. I think for the majority of what people are doing, the differences seem to be negligible. Here are a couple of examples of the reason. The biggest of computer monitors is right at 3. 6mp. Most are around 2mp. That means to view a medium format 40mp image for the (2mp) monitor you are only using 5% of this image data. The rest is getting disposed of. For a 16mp image you are choosing 12. 5% of the data. So that means noise, detail etc is getting disposed of as you deres the image. A similar goes with printing. The human eye can see 200-300 dots in each inch (A useful piece of information is monitors formerly were 72 dpi and are somewhere round 96 dpi. That means if you blow an image up to 100% on your desktop screen you are effectively magnifying by way of 2 to 3. Therefore, the images at 100% on the computer monitor don't look as good as on paper) By using 200 dpi, that means you need 2000x1600 pixels to print a reliable 8x10. If you do the math meaning you need 3. 2mp to screen-print an 8x10. (At 300 dpi you'll need 7. 2mp) That means for that 16mp image you are using 20% with the data. If this fits what you are doing, then any IQ differences are not of importance to you. As you start printing bigger than this, the difference can be noteworthy.

Where these m4/3 cameras excel will be handling. The GH2 is the emperor, in my opinion, for handling. The controls are so well laid out it can be a breeze to do anything you choose quickly. Additionally, the contrast based auto focus is really so fast, that live view is extremely useable. The swivel screen gives you huge options for a hold up to the eye only or even fixed back screen. You can hold the camera way over your head or way down by your feet and still frame the appearance.

On top of that is the luxury. It has gotten to the point we don't travel with my Nikon D7000 in any way. I only keep and use that will for portrait/wedding/event type photography (I did however just shoot being married with m4/3 only. The 100-300 seemed to be my primary lens. It is some slow but still grabbed some awesome shots). I usually travel with 2 GH show bodies, 5-8 lenses, and an iPad all within the Domke F4 bag. (With my G3 I will now travel with 3 bodies) This weighs right around 10 lbs. You might like to just carry the 7-14, 14-140, together with 100-300 lenses and cover from 14mm to help you 600mm equivalent with 3 lenses. Every one of those lenses can be attached to 3 camera bodies and within the F4. You could even add a new 4th body and add the 20mm f/1. 4. That might still fit in the F4 and even weigh in around 10lbs.

I don't really do that much with video so Now i'm not really going to comment much on it. However, video on the LUMIX G3 is in an easier way and more useable than any DSLR with the exception of the Sony A33/55. Also, there is an internal stereo mic but no external connection. I don't think the latter is big deal for many.

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