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Sure. They were reviewed at different times. The GH2 also gets a 79%. Does that mean it's as good as a GH3? Of course not. Who knows what the OM-D would have gotten if it were reviewed today?

I have yet to have a camera that is "clean" at high ISOs. Are the "hot pixels" always in the same place on all shots at high ISO? If not, I think you are probably looking at noise, and you can't...

Wow, what side of the bed did you get up on this morning? In one paragraph, you managed to insult not only most of us on dpreview.com, but most people who take photographs. This may be the most...

Presumably your camera has a long exposure NR setting. You can use that to get rid of long exposure hot pixels, though each exposure will take twice as long. The only hot pixels I ever find...

Pixel Mapping deals with pixel problems on the sensor, not the LCD or EVF.

Rare and easy to deal with? Tell me how easy it is to deal with it with the 45-175 lens on a G3? Avoiding a wide range of shutter speeds is the only way I've been able to "deal with it," and this...

Then, with the wrong camera/lens combo, you would be stuck with shutter shock. The only lens I experience this with frequently is the 45-175, but then it's about 25% of my shots in the...

1.1. I tried four lenses from three different vendors, updated the firmware on all four, and finally kept the fourth not because it was any better but because I otherwise like the lens. I know that...

With some camera/lens combinations, you can't work around shutter shock with "sound bracing technique and attention to your settings" except to avoid 1/60-1/250 shutter speeds, which a pretty wide...

I have not seen shutter shock issues with my 14-45, 20 1.7 or 45 1.8 on either my G1 or G3. I have seen them frequently with my 45-175, and somewhat less significant shutter shock blur occasionally...

Wow. This is splendid!

White Rose I Flower Mandala, original flower shot with a Minolta Dimage X 3MP camera.

Were you looking at the sensor with a sensor loupe? A really small speck on the AA filter would be impossible to see, otherwise. And actually, now that I think of it, I needed to use greater...

Much better than trying to deal with Panasonic. I didn't notice the junk under my SSWF until I went shooting in the Southwest, as I bought the camera in the winter here in New England and rarely...

I think the hard, small dot is a speck of something under the SSWF, either attached to the underside of the membrane or sitting on top of the AA filter. I had two of these on my G3. It took me six...

For street shooting, I use zooms (14-45 or 45-175, depending on the kind of shooting I want to do), unless it is fairly dark. However, if you want to stay with primes, with practice, you can learn...

The 45-175 copies I've tried (four of them) all showed the same level of shutter shock blur on my G1 and G3. My older 45-200 shows no such problem on either camera. I would guess the 45-150 to be...

I also noticed that the G3 tends to keep the shutter speed at 1/400 or above as long as it can, when in A or P modes. I think Panasonic did this to try to get around the problem with the 45-175 X...

Once they updated the firmware for the 45-200, the OIS in that lens was at least as good as the OIS in the 45-175, at least for my copies of both lenses. So it's not clear to me that it was an...

I guess you want me to say something like "you win" but I didn't conclude my 45-175 was bad just because the 14-42pz had problems. I concluded it had problems because I tested it. I did notice the...