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Step up to a better choice. LOL!
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-v2EP4bUgqKU/UxoVnZdso0I/AAAAAAAAAnw/adZq4-EmF8k/w986-h698-no/My-E-P5.jpg
I know based on your name that you’re half-joking, but that pic with the external EVF doesn’t really sell your argument.
At some point I will likely be choosing between the GX-7 and the EM-10 once they start to filter into the used market, but neither is a clear choice. The Olys have better IBIS and auto-ISO in manual mode, but the GX-7 has a better viewfinder, control interface, and the electronic shutter. It’s a really tough choice.
Oh…I am totally joking…well…not really ..that is my E-P5…(shot with a FF..LOL!)… It’s a tough choice and it all comes down to personal preferences…and it is great that we have so many choices in this format so we can decide on a camera we really love. I prefer the centered “very easily accessible” VF. And I just like the feel and the layout of the E-P5. You do have one of your facts wrong, though…the VF-4 is quite a better VF than the one in the Panny.
Good luck with your decision.
Obviously, he meant that the GX-7 has a better viewfinder than the EM-10.
And since both are much smaller than the EP5 with that hideous VF-4 protruding tumorlike from the top of it, I’ll also be choosing one of them.
But thanks for an entirely off-topic post, complete with off-topic image.
No problem, glad to help out!
The video is also a lot better on the GX-7. Olympus firmware updates may change alter this equation, however.
I thought the pany had better IBIS in actual usage? Despite the marketing power of the 5axis moniker.
Waiting till it drops under $500
one more year at least…
I love the GX7 – I own two now – I do also have the OMD-em5 and it is a great camera – I also have the Fuji X100s and Sony NEX5n and NEX7 – however a combination of nice size and weight and great M43 lens selection and the nice button layout and really nice Touch LCD and Touch To Focus and the many features makes the GX7 a winner to me –
If I was a Pro I suppose I would use the OMD-em1 as it has a better handle and is weather sealed – but as most of my shooting is street work etc the GX7 is just awesome –
NEX or the new A5/6000 have a nice sensor and yes are getting better as far as menu and a tiny bit more of manual control but still no match as far as joy to use –
I think the GX7 is underestimated – The Fuji X-T1 seems to get all the hype now – and yes no doubt a nice camera and Fuji did listen to the users and added more dials – Still Sony and Fuji seem to think that Touch LCD with Touch To Focus is just for beginners which is sadly wrong –
however with APS-C size sensor the lenses get heavier and larger – so for example in E-mount from Sony there are no fast zooms and Fuji has no 70-200mm F2.8 for example – so to me the M43 is the best compromise – and the M43 sensors are getting better and better – next year Panasonic will come out with a Organic sensor which will improve low light performance drastically and we are seeing fast lenses like the new 42.5mm F1.2 so fantastic abilities from small bodies and lenses – I am not knocking FF but for me weight and size is a big thing –
I own the GX7 (along with two GH2s) as well and have to admit when I first got the camera it had to grow on my a little. But for street photography it’s fantastic. I hope that for a GX8 Panasonic improves a few things: 1. Figure out a way that a studio strobe trigger in the hotshoe doesn’t prevent one from tilting the EVF/Eye Cup 2. IBIS also for Video 3. Weather seal 4. Keep on improving the low light ability. Their is a real market for a non DSLR body professional grade camera that is compact. Speaking of compacts I will also buy a GM1 when the price drops a little and I also plan to buy future GH camera (but I hope to wait until RAW video becomes common place). That’s one of the things I really love about the Micro Four Thirds system is that my investment in lenses scales among all these different body sizes. It’s something really unique to the system. Panasonic and Olympus should market this advantage.
That’s interesting, I also have two GH2s, and recently got a GX7 as a temporary placeholder until I can decide between the EM-1 or the GH4. I’m a semi-pro shooter, who started by just doing video work (music videos, interviews, promotional pieces, live performances, etc.), for which the GH2 has contnued to serve me extremely well. But my clients also asked me for photos (for CD covers, head shots, portraits, band photos, etc.) and the only way I’ve been able to get away with using the GH2 for pro phtography work is by heavily manipulating the images in Lightroom and Photoshop. So for stills work, I was all set to upgrade to an EM-1, but then the GH4 was announced, and I decided to wait. In the meantime, I needed a relatively inexpensive camera with better image quality than the GH2, and after a bunch of research, landed on the GX7. Image quality is a definite improvement over the GH2, and being a much newer camera, the GX7 sports a lot of new and improved fetures that I really appreciate (focus peaking, wifi, electronic shutter, etc.). I have large hands, so I’m still getting used to the ergonomics of the smaller body, and I’m not crazy about the EVF (I find the EVF on the GH2 easier to use), but overall the GX7 is a great little camera for the price and it’s been serving me well until the GH4 is relesed and I’m able to decide between it or an EM-1.
If you shoot video the GH4 is a no-brainer. Especially as you will be able to pull the occasional still as a photo if shooting in 4K. Great for collages of images or motion graphics assembly. If you want the best result you will of course want to actually shoot a still image using the GH4. Panasonic really makes the ideal cameras for hybrid shooters. My biggest issue is that once you go RAW in photography why would you want to miss it in video? I would buy a Black Magic MFT body if the software didn’t suck so much (not being able to format a card in the body, being able to see when the card is about to be filled up or power is about to go out … come on!) so the only real bodies to consider at an affordable price break point are Panasonic. Please Panasonic give us a camera that can do RAW at 1080p and 4K with a great codec. The GH4 is a step in that direction and I will probably buy that camera in any case but everyone is really holding out for RAW in video. Thank god that Blackmagic is showing us what can be done. The EM-1 is a camera that could be great if Olympus wasn’t so hard to trust for anything related to video. They have been making micro improvements in that area while Panasonic is really changing the world. And yes I realize the EM-1 is a great stills camera but if I was a stills only shooter I would invest in the Fuji system instead.