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To GX7 owners with Oly 4/3 experience

Started Jun 25, 2015 | Questions thread
Chas2 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,714
Re: To GX7 owners with Oly 4/3 experience

This is a question to owners of Pana GX7 who previously or still own 4/3 Oly bodies with IBIS , like 520-620, E30, E3 , or the 2 axis Ibis of the former Pen series .

How does the GX7 IBIS compare to them ? Is it as good or better ?

I have no experience of the 3 or 5 axis IBIS of the latter omd's, but am pretty satisfied with the one on the 520 and 620 . So something at least on par with it and I might consider a GX7 , since it does more and more look like an excellent value, 539 euros promo lately with 14-42 II vario ( although I didn't like the form factor at first, but handling is fine as I experienced in store )

Thanks

It is not necessarily better than 3 and not as good as 5 axis ibis but it is useful for maybe a couple of stops and better than nothing in certain situations
I have many more keepers with GX7 and non IS lenses like 20 and 45

It is definitely a nice to have combined with the full res eshutter

You can see the comparisons in numerous reviews including preview on this site

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