I own one and appreciate the 24mm wide camera lens plus the manual control....for me, I take mostly landscapes on my hikes and it suits me well. There are lighter cameras for sure, but half of the reason I hike is to see and share places most people never experience and I want good photos for the memories. Everyone has to strike a balance though.

We kind of knew this was coming, right?

http://www.43rumors.com/holga-lenses-for-micro-four-thirds-now-available/

This plus a pinhole adapter and you'd have every base covered.

Cheers,

Rick

Hey, Rick, I got one of those pinhole "lenses" for my GF1 as soon as they were announced. Love it.

To BG.

the back has no LCD monitor, the only indicator is the LED light, color or by flashing to tell which mode are you at. and only 2 buttons to controls all the functions

46g is a good deal!

Hi Ken,

Sweet! I'll bet it's a lot of fun, and the output must be one surprise after another. Can you meter with the thing or is it guesswork?

Cheers,

Rick

(Sorry for any thread hijack.) You can meter with it, surprisingly, though it's not as accurate as maybe I would want. It's very difficult to see the image through the viewfinder. Outdoor full sunlight exposures are around 1/4 second at ISO 800 (!). Nothing is sharp or in focus, really, but everything in the frame is exactly the same amount of softness -- like it has infinite depth of field but no real sharpness. The focal length is 11mm, so it's very wide, and just begs for strong foreground subjects and that near/far perspective. In my mind the best settings are square format b+w on the GF1.

I'm taking it to Utah later this month. Should be a blast in the canyons.