IVN
Senior Member
I know how you feel. The faster readout/better electronic shutter of the Nikon V1 is the feature I miss the most on the mFT cameras.
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This time I will buy a GM the GM5
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tombell1
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Well I was rather regretting in some ways buying the G6 .... but love it in many ways. For me i love the smallness of the GM1 but also would miss the bviewfinder ( thats age for you) ... but personally i love to have a small camera in a small bag on a belt .. It does not get squished in pockets ....but it means I am not tempted to put it down while drinking a coffee etc .... so if I can f9ind a small Good BELT bag foir it then I will go for it ... in preference .. but if not then its the GM! for me .....
Personally I think there is room for
GM! ... pocket
GM5 ... belt
then G6 / GX7 ... each will have a market ... I am only sorry that Panasonic may drop G6 line as it is an incredibly easy camera to use .. very ergonomic ... wonderful ....
but dont knock GM1 or GM5 they BOTH have a place ... and one of them will be mine ... also the GM% means the GM1 will drop in price .. so we are all happy
Personally I think there is room for
GM! ... pocket
GM5 ... belt
then G6 / GX7 ... each will have a market ... I am only sorry that Panasonic may drop G6 line as it is an incredibly easy camera to use .. very ergonomic ... wonderful ....
but dont knock GM1 or GM5 they BOTH have a place ... and one of them will be mine ... also the GM% means the GM1 will drop in price .. so we are all happy
aljudy
Senior Member
Hmmm, Bright light, slow shutter speed, DOF control, waterfalls... have you done any of these?
Obviously not, otherwise he would have realized how important ND filters are for certain types of shooting.
Dave Lively
Senior Member
I do have a ND filter I use for slow shutter speeds. But for bright light and DOF control the only reason you need a ND filter is because your max shutter speed is too slow. I do not normally carry a tripod around so there is a limit to how slow a shutter speed I can use anyways. DOF control in bright light is easily the most common reason for needing a ND filter.
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Mark Thornton
Senior Member
re waterfalls/slow shutter speed
In that case it is a work around so you don't have to come back later when the sun has gone down! ;-)
In that case it is a work around so you don't have to come back later when the sun has gone down! ;-)
bloodycape
Senior Member
Do you know if the accessory grip of the GM1 works on the GM5?
brentbrent
Veteran Member
I'm wondering if the Franiec GM1 grip will also fit the GM5. I'd much rather go that route if I were to buy a GM5.
safaridon
Senior Member
Seems strange that of all the new cameras DPR chose to give the GM5 only a couple page preview or hands on report even though by far the smallest ILC with an EVF rather than the much fuller longer previews given for the others? Does this make a difference, yes it does since DPR measures its popularity contest by the number of pages looked at thus GM5 is ranked lower than others than it would have been. Same thing happened when the GM1 debuted last year I believe. Ever wonder why big DSLRs seem to dominate this "popularity contest" just look at the length of their reviews!
Well I have to agree. If the GM1 were to be superseded by the GM5 it would be a black day indeed.
The GM1 makes its mark by being the smallest physical size interchangeable lens camera that has a reasonable sized sensor on board. That is something that should never be discounted despite many suggestions from those that would buy one if only it had ... (list).
A good move to supplement the GM1 with a camera with more conveniences for those that cannot live without them. But I think I could handle a GM5 as a backup camera for my GM1
Next task - lets try and convince those that see it as a cute little point and shoot of modest abilities of the fact that this is one quite capable camera despite its size.
For many small size = a toy and therefore no-good.
Lets not get sidetracked by thinking the GM1/5 is only good if it fits in a pocket? Fitting in a pocket if you wish is a bonus, not a reason for being. A GM1 + Nocticron is not pocketable.
What does get lost in the static is that with small camera bodies even millimetres get important.
The biggest problem with the GM1 is that of itself it is very small indeed but fit a lens and physically larger cameras such as the Rioch GR suddenly become smaller. If you do try and keep the size of the GM1 to "pocketable" you do the camera a great dis-service by self-restricting the lenses that might be used on it to those of the smallest dimensions. This is about where the false comparisons with the RX100 (for example) crop up. To me being pocketable is only if it suits the occasion - the camera is "small format" and I don't need it to be "always pocketable" and limit what the camera can do for me.
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Tom Caldwell
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Do'nt worry Richard Franiec is bound to have a version for it quick as a wink.
It`s 4.6mm shorter and 5.7mm thinner, about the same weight. The GM5 will slip into the same pockets as the GM1 does, unless of course, you are wearing skinny jeans. If you don`t know what skinny jeans are, ask your teenage kids;-)
Rens
Senior Member
It's definitely a drawback to me too.
The GM1 seems to have had very good reviews - at least none of the ones I read seemed to have a bad word about them including that of dpreview. I also seem to remember the GM1 rating highly on "most popular camera" chart for quite some time.
Until the GM1/5 are seen to be proper cameras and not sub-standard toys then they will not get their place in the sun.
Comparing the GM1 to the RX100 as is frequently done is only an index of how little many understand about what the GM1 truly is. Those that have been bellyaching about no evf seem to have had their wish in the GM5 (thanks Panasonic) but again they seem to be missing the message that the GM1 is truly small and is a full capability serious camera and not a toy.
Seeing the GM1 as principally a toy, a backup camera, or "one for the wife" is also to miss what the GM1 is all about.
I called the GM1 a "game changer" a while back but many have not yet twigged as to what game this was. The game is a fully capable camera so small that it is regarded as a cute little toy when it is not. Throw bits back in to make it convenient and it is just another camera. Limit the lenses used so that it remains pocketable then it is just another self-constructed point'n'shoot.
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Living in Hong Kong I can tell you that having a shutter speed above 1/4000 is very useful and convienient. On the size question, even if you carry a bag, smaller is generally better. I can fit my Em5 with the 12-32 and GM1 with the 35-100 f2.8 in a very small bag. I also have the 9mm bodycap in there. I have most of my bases are pretty well covered that way.
During my working week, the GM1 with 12-32 is small enough to earn a place in my work bag. Before the GM1, my EM5 (with landscape grip) and Pana 20mm used to sometimes come with me, but it's prescence was always noticed and it got left at home a lot of the time.
Living in Hong Kong I can tell you that having a shutter speed above 1/4000 is very useful and convienient. On the size question, even if you carry a bag, smaller is generally better. I can fit my Em5 with the 12-32 and GM1 with the 35-100 f2.8 in a very small bag. I also have the 9mm bodycap in there. I have most of my bases are pretty well covered that way.
During my working week, the GM1 with 12-32 is small enough to earn a place in my work bag. Before the GM1, my EM5 (with landscape grip) and Pana 20mm used to sometimes come with me, but it's prescence was always noticed and it got left at home a lot of the time.
Terminal Boy
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shoffmeister
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It was the protruding EVF of the GX7 that made me buy the GM1.
With the GM5 having a similarly protruding EVF, it will have this same "stickiness" that the GX7 has.
FWIW, the lens itself is completely round and does not "catch" all that much. The EVF does.
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