Panasonic's Lumix DMC-G10 camera finally gets the review we've been waiting for
By Tim Stevens 
posted April 21st 2010 4:19AM
posted April 21st 2010 4:19AM
posted April 21st 2010 4:19AM
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I'm beginning to think that Oly and Pan have forsaken the regular 4/3 crowd.......
Did they really need to split an already near exclusive lens mount into two?.......
My E-510 weeps,....along with a few lenses that I am not buying adapters for to fit the micro 4/3 stuff.
@CpuYoda Panasonic very likely is done with 4/3 but Olympus is releasing at least one 4/3 model this year. Furthermore, lens mount wise, MFT plus an adapter gives you 100% compatibility with 4/3 lenses. In all honesty, Olympus very likely wanted MFT in the first place but recognized the dominance of the SLR until a suitable EVF could be developed.
Additionally, the short register of MFT means you can pretty much use any legacy 35mm lens with a suitable adapter, of which 3rd party manufacturers have immediately exploited.
@CpuYoda
They did if they wanted to go mirrorless. Most of the advantage is making the camera bodies slimmer, since the distance between the lens and the sensor is less when there's no mirror mechanism getting in the way.
If you want to use SLR lenses, you have to make up for that distance, so it was either adapters, or just making the bodies SLR thick.
@CpuYoda
Olympus has aid that they feel that the 4/3s lens lineup is more or less complete. They, more or less, cover the entire zoom range at every grade of lens. There are a couple holes, but in those cases you can either move on up or move on down for a different lens.
I think there are more than enough 4/3rds lenses. The problem is that they are so damn expensive compared to Canikon lenses that are easy to rent, buy used, buy Sigmas, etc.
I still love my E 510 though, the 14-42 and 70-300 get me by. I wish I could get the 50mm prime and one of the wide angles(fat chance on the 7-14), but the 50mm is $400, the WA are $600 and $1400 and the 50-200 tele I want is $1000.
@CpuYoda
What you say is true. That said, camera bodies don't last forever. In fact they typically are outdated long before lenses are. At least in this scenario you can buy a new MFT body and use your old FT lenses on it with full function.
Nokia executive Anssi Vanjoki told yesterday in Helsinki, Finland that Nokia will revolutionize the camera markets 'very soon'.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20100420133248_Mobile_Phones_Set_to_Replace_SLR_Cameras_Nokia.html
“[Mobile phones] will in the very near future revolutionize the market for system cameras. There will be no need to carry around those heavy lenses," said Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president of markets at Nokia, said at an event, reports Reuters news-agency.
@jussipussi this is the future. I just use my iPhone 3G to take photos and the shots turn out almost as good as the professional photos anyway, it's hard to tell the difference if you are good at taking photos in the first place. Good expensive equipment and a heavy lens doesn't make you a good photographer instantly.
@jussipussi
Ei oo pelkoa :D
@Tombio :D Ei ole ei. Pitäisi tuon tason miehen vähän miettiä sanomisiaan, heh. Well, these things happen, heh :D
@The Joker
You are really joking or you are only referring to a small photo. Even the different in image quality between a prosumer and a DSLR can be easily realise, it is not possible for an iphone photo to be closed to a DSLR.
For those people who only need small sized photo, they will only buy a P&S. For those people who bought an expensive DSLR, they want something much more than what a phone or even a prosumer camera can produce.
Why do these otherwise well-designed cameras continue to insist on the Motion-JPEG format for recording video?
It basically makes the video recording feature pretty much useless.
@jhoff80
Compression. Raw video would fill your memory in 2 seconds flat. Also allows them a mea culpa on terrible video quality. Let's look at the bright side though, better than quicktime!
@jhoff80
The G2 uses AVCHDLite. Pony up the $200 if you want it.
@s1lph Well of course they use it as compression, but it's probably the worst format of compressing video that there is.
Using h.264 / AVC-HD makes much more sense. I realize that the higher end cameras use that, but it seems like a ridiculous feature to cut from the budget models.
Looks like the G1 is still the best cam for features and price if you can live without video.
Micro four-thirds cameras are not SLRs, so they also are not DSLRs.
How is the lens and sensor quality compared to Canon/Nikon DSLRs ? I mean I love my 7D + 17-55 2.8 combo, is there something that can compete here ? I'd like to get a second camera but i'm afraid i'll have to go for another canon.
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I love the idea of m4/3 but I still can't find a local retailer (central florida) who stocks any! If it won't feel good in my hand, then its not the camera for me. Panasonic needs to get best buy / sears/ sams/ walmart on board so I can hold one.