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A few thoughts about Olympus vs Panasonic for wedding photography

Started Aug 5, 2014 | Discussions thread
SidSnot
SidSnot Senior Member • Posts: 1,045
Re: A few thoughts about Olympus vs Panasonic for wedding photography

Bob Meyer wrote:

For one, I find Oly's menu system to be the most inscrutable, poorly organized, randomly grouped collection of duplicative functions imaginable. Sort of like Microsoft Word after a decade of randomly adding new features. Panasonic's menu's are a model of functionality and clarity by comparison.

Count me in on that! I have both Panasonic and Oly bodies and Panasonic is far more user friendly and almost as customisable.

I especially like the option to go straight back to the last menu used on the Panasonics, rather than start back at the root menu with Oly...

The Custom positions and setup is also far far better than Oly's weird and convoluted MySet option which is totally useless on EM5, only just OK on EM1/EM10

The only other comment I'll bother to make at this point is that you're comparing two very different cameras. If you want to compare build quality, control layouts, ease of use, etc., you really should compare the EM-1 to the GH4. The GX7 is in a different class. The GH4 controls are far better than the much smaller GX7, the EVF significantly better, etc. And I think you'd find the AF even better than the GX7's.

True, GX7 is comparable with EM10, EM1 and GH4 are the same level....

No OIS on GH4 though and nothing Panasonic have compares to IBIS on an EM1

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