A Review And Look At The Panasonic Lumix GX7 Micro Four thirds Camera
Panasonic GX7 Notes: Two Wheels Are Better Than One (TheOnlinePhotographer).
Review: Lomography Micro Four Thirds Experimental Lens Kit (ThePhoBlographer).
Lecteur – Testeur Olympus OM-D E-M1 (Focus Numerique).
Paris: journées portes-ouvertes Olympus (Lepidi).
Must be the first E-M1 in Antarctica! (Facebook).
Introducing superior Amaran Halo LED ring flash (Aputure).
Fun High ISO comparison between the GX7 and the X100s, using Turin’s Luci D’Artista (Artist’s Lights) as a backdrop (Bestmirrorlesscamerareviews).
Stylus 1 test at DC.watch.
Fast Glass Showdown: f/0.95 Schneider, Voigtlander & Leica Square Off (EatTheBlinds).
Sigma 60mm f/2.8 DN A MFT Lens test at Photoreview.
From our friends from Thephotochannel.pro:
We noticed over at The Photo Channel this month they’ve introduced a group of new Premium Education content with 2 titles specifically about mirrorless cameras with “The Insider’s Guide to the Lumix GH3” and it’s SuperFeatures explained with what scenario to use them. There is also a new one from Hybrid Coach and Innovator Will Crockett on “Why You Will be Shooting Mirrorless sooner than you think”. ThePHOTOchannel is the latest photography education site on the scene set up in a classroom structure with Classes in Hybrid Photography, Lighting, Audio, and much more planned. Each class is only $9.99 for 90 Days or they have a monthly subscription available for $15. New education classes are being continually added and the past library of content from ShootSmarter.com and Friday Photo School is available too.
Why you will be shooting mirror less sooner:
https://thephotochannel.pro/media/why-you-will-be-shooting-mirrorless-sooner-than-you-think/5091
GH3 Superfeatures:
https://thephotochannel.pro/media/the-insider’s-guide%3A–lumix-gh3—part-1/4559
Superfeatures Promo Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzHrLk7JH6o
19 Responses
GX7 and GM1 Panasonic is doing a good job now..
Will Crockett is a scam artist. He knows nothing about photography at all.
“My advice: get an Olympus EM-1. It comes with two control wheels…..:-)”
The first comment on the GX7 review…
Sad.
lol nice try. you posted this already in november.
LOL @ the embedded video. Nice video and info, but the narrators voice is too close to Frank Spencer for me to concentrate. Kept waiting for the “OOOH, Betty!”.
I think the fixed lens cameras are good alternative when buing same same focal to your native csc system
! Thatswhy…its time the oly & pana bring it on !! …otherwise people will turn to fuji with such options!
Wow. Not a fair comparison between GX7 and X100. The X100 is APSC sensor and 1.8 lens. And, its $549 at amazon. GX7 kit is $909.
Oops. Cancel the last post.
Not a fair comparison between GX7 and X100. The X100 is APSC sensor.
who cares whether its apsc or not, you pedantic whiner
Hang On.
The guy at bestcamerareviews does care. So do many photographers with an IQ priority.
My concern is that the medium ISO differences (ISO 1600-3200) are so great that I wonder whether it is a fair comparison.
The people at bestcamerareviews consistently do things in the worst way. You can’t say one camera holds on to detail more than the other by showing crops at different distances or focal lengths. The longer focal lenght will show more detail on the crop and it has nothing to do with the sensor. And then the comparison is done with jpegs.
My em5 with the 20mm 1.7 clearly out resolves my X100s in raw, at any iso
Thanks for the info. What about the noise????
The X100s is cleaner, but there’s clear noise reduction even on raw files. You can apply noise reduction on the pana files and have the same output, better if you leave some noise in there
Noise comparisons on jpegs files is silly also. It’s a comparison of what the company decided to leave in
I am surprised/disappointed at Bestmirrorlesscamerasreview of the GX7 vs the Fuji X100s. Although they used different equivalent focal length lenses (????????????) for the comparison….35mm equiv. on the Fuji and 24mm equiv. on the GX7 …. The Fuji was a much better performer. I guess what disturbed me the most was the lack of overall sharpness of the GX7/Olympus 12mm prime compared to the Fuji. I dare say if the reviewers were using either of the 17mm AF primes available to MFT users the results would have been worse, as I own the 0ly 12mm and consider it to be a very decent lens. Perhaps the lack of sharpness has to do with noise reduction in the GX7 (I do not own the camera and am not familiar with it). The softness does not appear to be caused by noise itself or camera movement as the shutter speed seem to be in the safe zone. It definitely was not a truly “scientific” comparison …but since I am an enthusiast of MFT it was kind of a let down.
You can look at the noise and find that the x100 is better. However, as to details, I wouldn’t conclude unless they use the same field on view on both cameras. For instance, if they had used panaleica 25mm (50mm equiv) vs the 35mm equiv of the Fuji, probably GX7 would have got more details, at least at Iso 1600. (Though eventually, the Fuji may have taken over at very high iso because of lesser noise)
I don’t agree with his statement that the Panny m43rds doesn’t have to worry about competing with APSC sensor cameras it has to worry about FF. That is so WRONG. When you read any review of a APSC camera, say the Fuji all they talk about is being as good as FF. FF reviews all love to say ” we are like medium format”. That’s the nature of reviews to compare yourself to something immanently better even though you are not that.
That said I LOVE shooting with M/3rds, but feel guilty about it because I know when I see the quality of the files next to my Fuji Files or Canon FF files they are dwarfed. Yet the Panasonics are the ones I put in my bag and enjoy the shooting experience. I will probably buy the GX7 when the price drops. i like the size the UI and the lenses (small and good) but it’s not not not a Fuji or Sony X series or even a Canon Rebel quality, it just isn’t.
Thanks Rico for your opinion…I do not have an APSC camera to compare my MFT files to…just my FF which of course the MFT files cannot touch…I also use Olympus cameras as I like those files better than the Pansonic’s…
I would love to see a more scientific shoot-out between a GX7, a E-P5 and say a Canon Rebel and an entry-level Nikon crop sensor camera….all shot with equivalent prime lenses …I would really like to see the difference in the files.
Fact is you can make great photographs with any of the cameras offered and discussed here and even an iPhone..(blasphemy)
I will say that my favorite cameras to shoot with are the <4/3rds I 've owned at least 5 panasonics often with Oly lens's.
The files off my Fuji are amazing but I still prefer using the G series Pannys, the Files off my Canon 5D MkII or my old T2i remind me how amazing and easy Canon and Nikon make it to capture great images, too bad about the bulk.
I have tried the new Sony A series and the RX series and the images are freaking fantastic but the User Interface is not fun for me, ditto my Fuji which I should love more because the images often do look as full frame. The Fuji's have personality but I am kind of stuck on the ease and portability of the M4/3rds and my lens choices.
The review from the guy above is nice but it seems like he's used 2 digital cameras before he found that one and did not try an APSC. I would compare the GX7 to a Fuji because of the form factor. The images coming out of Fujis are superior but using the Panny's are more fun for me and I'm 90% to take it with me and make an outing into a photo outing.
KInd of like relationships (with me) no one person can give you EVERYTHING.
I just wish there would be some breakthroughs in sensor tech that would up the game of M4/3rds vs the big guys…one day maybe:)