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| sent on 26 Luglio 2025
Pros: waterproofing and dust protection, for the use I make of it, retractable rear display protected from bumps and scratches, the best viewfinder I have ever used, so much so that I used it practically without a display, the price, the availability of high quality optics, a very complete menu also for the possibilities offered in digital processing
Cons: with Panasonic Leica lenses a certain delay, especially for landscape or low light photographs, in focusing, an immense vastness of possible operations that I will never learn in the course of my life, the position of the power button....
Opinion: I wondered if it would be useful to review a camera that is now out of production and replaced by a newer model which, it is said, has improved some flaws. I think of those who, like me, buy second-hand equipment for work. I take photographs of buildings for which I have to carry out renovation or restoration projects, for appraisals, for site documentation, then with dust from demolitions, excavations and up and down scaffolding. I bought, several years ago, a Canon DSLR, after years of Nikon with film, to have an easily manageable digital archive. Then I switched to Fujifilm mirrorless, in order to have a pair of Zeiss lenses, wide-angle and normal, and, later, always to stay at Zeiss at Sony FF. While the optics were absolutely satisfactory, the Sony body, an a7II, was beginning to show some signs of age. I would have liked to stay at Sony but the costs of the upgrade I wanted to get were really unaffordable for me, unless I went for bodies with over 100 thousand shots. Then some friends told me about the micro 4/3 system. I looked around and, since my instinct always makes me start from lenses, I found three Panasonic Leica lenses on occasion. My choice therefore went to OM-1 which I found at a real devaluation price, with what for me represented an indispensable element, the quality of the 1600 x 1200 px viewfinder, the weight and the protection from external agents. I didn't find anything satisfactory in Panasonic that had all the features found in OM-1, at least in micro 4/3. I am, now a few months later, really satisfied with the change of system, also for the quality of the optics. It may be natural to wonder why it does not use native lenses, i.e. OM System. Well, I tried with a pro series lens of equal value to the Panasonic Leica I use and there is really no comparison, neither in the construction of the lens (wobbly barrel) nor in the quality of the images, always talking about optics under 1000 euros. The menu is exaggeratedly vast but customizable. For those who use them, the main computational functions are present (for now I have only used the simulation of the ND filter for long exposures). Present for jpg shots, the colored filters for black and white. What can I say, I'm sorry for those who bought it new, given the devaluation, but if you find one little used don't miss it. PS: the power button, positioned next to the upper ring on the left, different from all the devices I have used previously that had it in correspondence with the shutter button, is an infinite pain in the ass. Then you get used to it.... |
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