We need more pocket cameras like this... here's why.
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
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This tiny camera, this little blue camera... this POCKET camera brings such joy when shooting on the street. As a compact street photography camera, this Lumix GM1 stands out on its own as one of the smallest interchangeable lens cameras - making it ideal for everyday photography. With this size, you could expect issues with image quality, however the GM1 delivers beautiful images straight out of cameras.
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0:00 - Intro to Micro Four Nerds
0:41 - First MFT Camera
1:17 - Tiny Blue Lumix
2:37 - Emily's Photography
3:19 - Small Cameras I Like
4:15 - Why MFT is Unique
5:00 - Camera Philosophy
6:08 - Will MFT Disappear?
7:11 - Tiny vs Big Cameras
7:43 - One Camera for Life
8:35 - My Camera for Life
9:04 - Bonus Video
#streetphotography - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Watch Emily's video here 🎉 czcams.com/video/ex4glE5YNQQ/video.htmlsi=A4FkL5l4lYo-1TkF
The collab I didn't knew I wanted but I definetly needed.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😄
So many camera manufacturers are blowing it by not releasing a small weather resistant street photography camera.
They are just letting Fujifilm dominate. Very strange.
It's the problem with the square cube law. Make the sensor larger and everything else that interacts directly with it needs to be so much bigger. I can stuff my X-T2 with a full range 18-135mm in my messenger bag with no issues because not only is the body more compact, so is the lens because it doesn't need to project a large image circle. Try doing the same with a Sony A7c. You can't even find a lens with an equivalent zoom range, much less one that wouldn't drag you down.
Fujifilm insisted on APS-C all the way for their X mount which I maintain is the best decision they have ever made for the fledgling X system instead of being memed into making full frame cameras for the X mount later down the line. With micro 4/3 being effectively dead by now, Fujifilm remains the most compact system that you can get new.
@@Moonstone-ReduxKinda stupid to say M4/3 is dead
Sony have done the best job so far by making more compact full frame bodies but doubt they'll ever try make a super small apsc
@@nathansstuff1547 Despite all the copium, M4/3 is practically a dying system, no two ways about it. Panasonic has left the system for dead in favour of their new L mount, OM system has something, but they are not capitalising on their size advantages and their new lens are as heavy as their full frame counterparts (!). Just because a camera system is still usable doesn't mean that the system isn't on a path to decay if the companies don't keep current lens in production and make new updates for their lens.
@@Moonstone-Redux A lot of people would disagree with you about "micro 4/3 being effectively dead by now." Only MFT has has the most advanced computational photography capabilities on the market, and the best weather sealing, and have had four new flagship bodies from OM System and Panasonic in the last two years. You are completely ignoring the small Lumix bodies (GX85, & GX9) and the OM System PEN E-P7 and E-PL10 bodies.
GEORRRGEEEE!!! I loved this video!! It was a pleasure pew pewing with you for the day I love your photos 😁📷 we must do it again some time!
When world's collide! Definitely so much fun, a different city next time maybe? 🤔
@@GeorgeHolden liverpool 👀
you are way too underrated man
I own a Lumix GM1, and I will never sell it!
It is so precious an so much fun!
btw: it has the same senor like the GH3, wich is a hybrit camera - a still used by many videographers
I love my gx80 with a small lens which actually fits in my pocket and still use it a lot
Yes, excellent camera. An updated one is much needed.
A camera I still haven't tried but would love to!
I'd been looking to get a camera, but ignored M43 entirely until I stumbled upon Emily's channel. A week later, I bought a Lumix GX9.
It's everything you could want with a compact everyday carry.
Have the GX9 and concur with your decision about the GX9. Small. Lightweight. Takes good photographs and videos. The one thing I want is an audio jac. Weather sealing would be nice. So would PDAF. M43 is the way to go.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
Amazing!
GM1 is my first M43 camera , I ready love this tiny camera ❤. I have 3 of it , 1st one is black but it was broke, 2nd is blue same as yours video💟, 3rd is white with Panasonic hand strap 🤍. Now my major camera is GH6
Love this collaboration, you seem so comfortable in each others company, discussing a subject in a relaxed way with both of you chipping in with great advice is awesome, hope you do more together.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So awesome... saw both your thumbnails beneath each other with the blue Lumix and I cheered inside! Love both of your channels for the refreshing content and motivating creativity of you both ❤
Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed them both 😄
Two of my favorite photography channels! Wow, thanks so much for this video collaboration and hope you will do more of this in the future. Cheers George and Emily! 🙏🏻❤️
Thanks! Will do!
GM1 + 20mm 1.7f is my favorite combo
So glad for this collab!! I have a GM1 and it is indeed a very fun camera to use!
Glad you enjoyed! And yes a lovely camera to use!
Loving this collaboration 😍. This also happens to be one of my favorite bits of kit for travel street.
Thanks! 😄 I may now steal Emily's, I love it in blue!
It's amazing to see my two favourite photography vloggers together!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Great collab! Love both of your videos.
Thanks so much 😊
Big Thanks, George and Emily!!! You two are Genius Creators. Cheers. :)
Thank you too!
It's lovely seeing you guys supporting each other 👏
A lot of fun too!
Love this video!
Thank you!!
I was totally excited to see you both hanging out! ❤ I LOVE my GM5 - pretty much the GM1 except with a viewfinder- and it’s one of three I want to be buried with. Tiny cameras are perfect for my street photography. Love these videos George. Thanks.
Thanks! And I almost included an elaborate meme of me being buried with compact cameras, I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about my cameras 😅
@@GeorgeHolden 😂
I have a Nikon 1 J5. It's the perfect size for travel and street photography. It definitely sparks joy for me. I once travelled with a Canon 800D Dslr and it was really lumbering for travel, and people became too conscious for street photography. Compact and discrete is perfect for my style.
I LOVED this video! Your comments on cameras that bring you joy are spot-on. I'm a huge believer in small cameras and have a collection of higher-end compacts (like the Lumix zs100) and smaller APS-C cameras (like the EOS M200). All the larger cameras I have owned I hated using and generally ended up gathering dust. My next camera will DEFINITELY be a micro-four-thirds, probably a Lumix. Small, portable and high quality is the way to go.
Thanks for sharing!!
Love the blue color. I have a red GM5. I find the evf essential. The LCD on this line was a bit dim even for the time and it is just black on bright overcast days. Evf saves you even though it is tiny.
Enjoyed this video. Thanks.
Excellent video and thanks to the both of you for putting this together! There seems to be a resurgence in interest in really small digital cameras, especially among Gen X'ers, with Four Thirds Rumors reporting a very large increase in sales of the OM System PEN E-P7 and - yes - the GM1 - especially in Asia. I have the full collection of Olympus/OM System PEN E-Px bodies (including the PEN-F) and there is something about a really small camera that is always fun, and which encourages you to always have one with you. Although the GM1 is super small, there are many just-slightly-larger Lumix and Olympus PEN cameras available for the same or less than a GM1, and most with better features, including excellent IBIS in the Olympus bodies.
this exact setup is my night walking buddy. Already took some nice shots looking up to some more
Emily is brilliant! Love her channel.
I love Emily, she’s brilliant. I also love the GM1, and I’ve owned mine since launch. I’d rather sell my wife, daughters and house than part with it. It’s the best camera ever made.
Think about how many GM1s you could buy if you did 😅
This comment made me buy one
@@keshudioo you won’t regret it.
I also love my GM1, I’ll never sell it
I need this camera! It's in my fav colour 💙
I had this gear, and soon reconized that the size is the distingush point but also the bad point of this camera :( you dont need a such tiny camera, that is very difficult to deal with in many situations on streets.
excellent photos btw …
My favourite for street is the EM-10 mk2 and Olympus 45mm f1.8
Nice video. I like the new E-P7 I just got direct from Japan. New, in the box. Almost as small but with all the specs of the Pen-F as it was it's follow up in the Pen line.
Cheers!
Intro transition is so smooth
World's most botched transition 😂
I shoot full frame for pleasure and rent a phase 1 for business, so I've never seriously considered an MFT camera, but you've got me interested.
Really want a GM1 & GM5! Great vid!
You and me both! And cheers!
Great video. Thanks for interviewing Emily (never knew her name although I have been watching Micro 4 Nerds for a long time!)
Glad you enjoyed it!
A lovely Pentax ME Super taking a cameo role here. Great camera
The only issue I have is that I want a small viewfinder as well. I never liked composing with the screen. So there really never was an option for me to begin with.
The first Pen F was perfect for me for that reason. Sad that they didn't do anything with it after.
Yes! I do think as well I need a viewfinder more and more - a very underrated feature!
if only they weren't $700+ for us here in Brazil... what a lovely little camera.
Noosssa eu só quero uma camera baratinha por menos de mil reais, mas o merdado de usados ta um absurdo. Vi gente vendendo camera de entrada usada de 15 anos atrás por 2 mil reais, revoltante.
Is there anything in Brazil that doesn't cost a fortune? You guys are getting ripped off...
@@NathanChisholm041 yes my friend... consumer goods are realy expensive here. Sometimes is more afordable go to the us and make a big purchase there then go back to brazil
It's nice to see two of my fav CZcamsrs in the same video!
By the way you may get yourself a GF7. If you like the GM1 you will love this one as well, it's almost the same camera (bit cheaper built, yes), tilting screen, inexpensive, just slightly (slightly) bigger.
I do have a small collection of MFT cameras from Olympus and Panasonic, and I also agree with you about the E-M10 (I do have a mark IV which is the most expensive in my collection indeed).
Glad you enjoyed it! And yes I just might try a GF soon, a few have recommended!
@@GeorgeHolden GF9 with 4K photo, photo style L monochrome result like Leica monochrome
Cool Crossover episode 😊
The micro four thirds cinematic universe 🤯
Just got a GM1, partly based on Emily's videos and advice therein. Fun little item. Thanks for some hype on it, I'll have to pick up that 14mm lens next.
Deffo try the lens!
Genios!
I'm for sure a full frame guy, but that camera is so cute it makes me want to use it 🤩 also that photo with the hyena and the mountain is insane!! Great video and collab 💪🏽
Cheers man!
I have the orange GM1!
I bought an orange GM1 when they first came out but I broke it. I could only find a second hand one. I absolutely love this camera
My first M43rds was the Lumix GH2
I don’t understand why panasonic don’t sell such cameras anymore, small with high built quality. It fits best with the m43 sensor. Thats why i was into m43. If i want a big clunky camera ill take full frame camera over the new m43 cameras. I have still some m43 lens hoping that they release such small cameras with high quality again.
George's views on Lumix street photography are always so achingly close to my own that this almost feels like an acid trip.
A few others have covered such topic. Personally I'd go with the Lumix ZS200D for street only and or travel when I don't want to carry gear.
Tiny cameras raise a sensortive issue. Marketing and pundits extol the "mine is bigger than yours" sensor envy. Thus, when it comes to bigger sensors you get bigger gear built around them. Pocket cameras challenge the popular sensortivities. To be truly pocketable, you need a smaller sensor size that must be "inadequate" for "real" photography. But, as any magician knows, the magic of the wand is not in the size of the sensor but in the hands of the photographer. 😉 Signed up pocket camera user (Sony ZV1, Lumix ZS200, Lumix LX7)👍
Pocket cameras to the.... Pocket!!
Omgggggg my two favorite photography CZcamsrs 😍😍😍 and yesimmediately thought Emily when I saw that camera lol
She's a true legend!
@@GeorgeHolden I’m so happy right now🥹 (also loved the film photography video you guys made for Emily’s channel too! )
Thanks a lot George! Great video and ohhh…
I think I know what for I’m gonna save some money 😉
Great self control! 😂
I knew that camera looked familiar!
Iconic!
Yeah, I keep my touchscreens switched off, but since the toggle is also on the touchscreen, I will from time to time inadvertently toggle it on again, randomly snapping photos and changing settings.
Honestly, a small, easy to use camera with a larger sensor than you see on phones and compact cameras is exactly what we need to get casual people away from phone photography and saying "My phone can take photos too".
m43 should be all about fun an portability. GM1 is a real gem, and should be read like gem1! I also have the GM1 in lovly orange and the Pen F silver. Both are my favorite m43 cameras. Supporting your thoughts about launching new portable and fun cameras.
Been using GM1 + 20 1.7 since 2014 and really happy with them!!
just got OMD E-P7 last year to get a better image quality and newer tech... but i still loves the size of GM1 more >_
Perfect camera I’m looking for.
Yes!
There are many cameras like this to choose from. Personally I have the Lumix DMC TZ20. It's always in my pocket. I won't travel without it.
That's great!
Ah man... my first interchangeable lens camera body was the Olympus E-PL1. I loved that camera! That was the camera that I discovered you could use adapted vintage lenses on mirrorless systems, and the rest, as they say is history. Bought a second hand Zenit-E that had a Helios 44-2 with it for £10, mounted it to the Oly and off I went. I learned everything with that camera: understanding of depth of field, sunny 16, zone focusing... I used it for 1000s of photos till the IBIS and shutter eventually failed. Had the EM5 mark 1 also, the only camera I purchased new, that was a wonderful camera also. The take away for me was the Olympus colours... very nice, as are the lenses. If I was to buy a M43 camera again, I've always lusted after the Pen-F. That's a nice camera. Maybe one day, if the price is right. Nice collab video.
Cheers!
when the GM series and Pen-F were released, they are not selling well. But users later find that it is so fun to use. now, it is so hard to find one used. let alone like new.
I have 3 M43 cameras all Olympus. I have the OM-D E-M1, OM-D E-M1X [not really a favorite] and my absolute love the PEN F. I have way too many lenses for them but my newest favorite is the Olympus 9mm f8 pancake lens/body cap. The other is the 12-40mm f2.8 PRO. Of the primes I have the Olympus 12mm or the 17mm are the ones I usually grab.
Nice!
Been looking for one to add to my m4/3rds collection.
I’ve still got this one! God I wish they’d not made this a one and done, it’s the best camera to have with you. Have the same lens too.
Might want to check out the Kickstarter that Yashica is attached to that ends in the near future. Not sure how well it'll work out, but it's definitely going to be an interesting camera along the line of "totally-pocketable, interchangeable-lens cameras." 3 different lenses available in the kit, and adaptable like any other mirrorless...but even tinier.
Might honestly be TOO tiny (as a dude with bigger hands), but it will definitely be cool.
Yes for me is the still GM1 or the GM5 if is the 4/3 format or oly elp5,But don't forget about the Ricoh GR II that is APC,and they all fit in pocket ;)
But will they? Both seem to be on the trajectory of larger bodies and more expensive. That also pulls up the prices of the used market for more interesting cameras.
That's our view too, but maybe a smaller camera could appear
been a whole lot of gm1 and gm5 videos coming out recently. I smell a new micro 43 camera in the works.
If only!
I wish panasonic create small mft cameras again.
I grabbed GF10 the other day and don't want to go out without it
Would love more!
Never used a m4/3 camera but still love to watch Emily, she says she has a revolving door on cameras at home??? Never knew she actually got rid of any 😂
Love the video George, keep at it mate
Thanks Brian! To be fair she has more than I've ever even owned!! 😂 Hope you're doing well 👍
@GeorgeHolden I know, thats what i mean.
Yes, I'm OK...now. May have already said but had Heart Attack and Triple Bypass in November. Was a very bad time recovering, ended up with PTSD
GM1 was my first Micro Four Thirds camera and i still love it very much..brought it for holiday and pictures turn out great everytime..but the screen is having black patches (like vignette), not sure if anyone can change the screen since it's an older camera..bought another smaller camera lumix GF10 but still not as small as GM1 😢
i have Nikon D800 that im selling, gopros, and a fuji GFX MF, and that camera thats alway in my car is my Lumix GX9 i love it
Try the pentax q7 with 01 lens
Nice video! I have GM5. Great camera! However, I struggle a bit in low light. I would like to try the Fujifilm X-E4 with their pancake lenses. About the size of PEN-F, but should be better in low light. But yeah, sad that there seems to be no replacement for GM5 or GM1 in future.
Part of the problem for m43 is the system is so mature. There's very little left to bring out, apart from professional videocentric bodies. Surely there's room for an updated compact in the roadmap? The old models are getting worn out.
Disagree! I honestly find the choice of lenses to be limited, maybe it's reached peak innovation but seeing what new 3rd party brands have done for lenses and what Sony and Fuji do with smaller bodies, I think there's still room for new and interesting updates
@@GeorgeHolden The only thing third party brands brought was cheaper prices, and exotic specs with questionable performance. Since Panasonic and Olympus dropped their rangefinder styled bodies, m43 stills photography has become associated almost exclusively with aging wildlife photographers. That isn't a long term business plan, as Olympus discovered.
I have 4 of those in 4 colors
I imported a white xz-1 , and it’s the one that gets used … the em1 mk2 gets left at home …)
Ricoh GR digital is my small camera choice.
I saw both your matching video thumbnails (both with the blue GM1 Camera) appear in my feed at the same time, and I thought "hello! A collaboration!"
Yess! Hope you enjoyed!
Bought these camera's years ago for only 50-100 euro's, since the hype prices have gone up like crazy
Enjoyed this video man 👍📸 But most memorable line though was ‘I haven’t got a strap-on at the moment’. I can’t unhear it!🙄🤣🤣
Uh oh 😅
Emily rocks, the OG Micro Four Nerd
Very true!
And pro Quality compact lenses
Exactly'
We need lumix s9 but with m43 version, please panasonic, the more i look at new s9 the more i wish it was m43
Very nice video !
What do you think of the Olympus Pen F ?
Awesome video bro! The dog that gave you a screw face was so funny. I wonder if you’re known around the Manchester dog community as ‘that guy with a camera’ 😂
Tbf owners have recognised me 😅
You should try the Sony a5100 with the 20mm pancake you have. That is a tiny, cheap and very capable setup with 24mpx and phase detect AF. A beefed up GM1 basically :D
GM series is addicting.
It is!
Hehe, it looks like the Shashingo camera!
I love this camera! Great video as always. In my opinion M42 is one of the best mounts for Street Photography or well for compact cameras... Have you ever used a Fujifilm X-T100? It's a small and affordable in used camera (or it was, it cost me 200USD with 15-45mm kit lens)
Thanks! And no I haven't yet but agreed MFT is a great on the go set up for street
Cool video collab!
Found Emily in the wild!
Great photos from the walk.
Cheers!
I love the lumix gm1. I bought mine twice. Sadly I had to returned all of those because my first one had some black spots on the sensor which couldn’t be cleaned, and the second one had shutter button issue, it felt quite hollow, sometimes it didn’t recognize the half-press focus. Now I use Fujifilm and quite into it, I really missed M43. The lenses are very small and compact like the 12-32mm, 14mm, 20mm from Lumix and 45mm from Olympus. The autofocus is very fast compared to APSC released in the same year, even continuous autofocus is exceptional on the Lumix GM1 with a 14mm lens attached (I used earlier X-E series camera from Fuji and the autofocus is horrendous).
I use M43 & Fuji. Life is good. I don’t need or want a full frame body or lenses.
Mask On Nurse Marty (Ret)
That's awesome!
Alas the market has figured out that the GM1 is that good, they all cost a bomb now. I ended up with a GX9 instead, which the fairly late and very great David Thorpe used to use
Would like to have a successor for my GM5 with better shutter range and EVF but at the same size
it's HELL trippy when I see two photography channels I casually follow on youtube, collab. like legit... worlds colliding hahaha
ON TOPIC tho. I used Panasonic Lumix LX100s (both the original, then mark ii) for almost 8 years, as my primary/only go-to camera of choice. covering predominantly late night, live music scene stuff. both people on the street between venues, bar patrons, lots and LOTS of live bands under various hideous led lit stagelighting conditions, the works. and yeah, in some (a LOT) of cases, it took every editing trick invented in the book to fix photos (mostly just the live bands). but I swore by those cameras. absolute miracle gizmos. and shockingly... if you buy trousers slightly one size too big, actually pocketable.
in fact even after "upgrading" to a Fujifilm APS-C, because stagelighting continued to get worse, and I needed more firepower/sensor size/megapixels to fight that, I still keep an LX100 in my pocket as backup as my video camera.
pocketable cameras are MAD. love 'em. forged an entire photography/local music scene documenting career out of them.
so yeah, fun vid!
Amazing!!
was that the olympus F2….. all their lenses should be made in that Quality , it’s a beautiful thing.
I heavily considered a M4/3 like the GM1 (largely due to Emily's influence) but for the used price of many of those M4/3 cameras I couldn't justify what was mostly an equal cost, similarly small form factor but more capable camera such as the APS-C sized EOS M6, which I eventually went for. I still see it as a win as I'm much more likely to bring that along when I don't want to lug my 90D or D750. How does one justify a GM1 over the M6 ( or M100/200) given similar cost, size, and greater capability of the latter? Not trying to diminish M4/3s usefulness as a genera. Genuinely curious.
There's never been a small MFT camera with a phase detect AF sensor from Panasonic or Olympus. Photographers can work around this limitation but other users are underserved by small MFT cameras.