GF1 street camera.

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The simple and cheap additions to my GF1 that I made, to turn it into an excellent street camera, especially for an old viewfinder user like me. I loved the image quality but did not always find the “at arms length” style of picture taking comfortable, especially in bright sunlight or when in unobtrusive street mode. The cheap optical viewfinder is excellent, well made and very bright, it is good for the 20mm pancake, and also quite acceptable for the 14-45mm zoom, where the 35 & 85 mm lines are a good guide. The tiny spirit level on the left used to be in the hot shoe, but is now double sided sticky taped on top of the flash (which is not obstructed by the viewfinder).

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