{"id":13432,"date":"2011-09-21T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=13432"},"modified":"2013-11-08T21:37:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T04:37:20","slug":"the-panasonic-g3-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/09\/21\/the-panasonic-g3-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panasonic G3 &#8211; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Finally shipped!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Part I is <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/05\/12\/the-panasonic-g3-part-i\/target=_blank>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A sharp eyed reader dropped me a line to say that black Panasonic G3 bodies were in stock at B&#038;H (thank you, Bill!) and it took mere seconds to cancel my <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/05\/12\/the-panasonic-g3-part-i\/ target=_blank>Amazon order for the G3<\/a> and buy the body from B&#038;H, along with a spare battery.  The G3&#8217;s small size means the battery is smaller than in the G1, so I&#8217;m playing it safe.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Panasonic_G3_order.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"342\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Given that my AMZN order was placed on May 12, I felt it only right to splash out $22 on expedited shipping from the center of the world to the left coast!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting 80% of the quality of my (sold) Canon 5D from G1 snaps in 18&#8243; x 24&#8243; prints, and as the G3 is the first MFT camera to use the latest generation 16mp sensor I&#8217;m hoping that results in a little more headroom when the light is poor or the original needs a bit of cropping.  The bulk and weight saving with MFT hardware over full frame digital is tremendous and the main reason I switched.<\/p>\n<p>Stay posted as I wring this new body out with my existing complement of Oly (9-18 MFT) and Panny (14-45 and 45-200  MFT) lenses, all known quantities extensively covered here in past articles.<\/p>\n<p>Part III is <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/09\/23\/the-panasonic-g3-part-iii\/ target=_blank>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally shipped! Part I is here. A sharp eyed reader dropped me a line to say that black Panasonic G3 bodies were in stock at B&#038;H (thank you, Bill!) and it took mere seconds to cancel my Amazon order for the G3 and buy the body from B&#038;H, along with a spare battery. The G3&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/09\/21\/the-panasonic-g3-part-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Panasonic G3 &#8211; Part II<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panasonic-g1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13432"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25481,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions\/25481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}