G7, a big leap for a GF3 user

Also had GF3 (which is now my back up). When I bought GX1, I already felt the material upgrade from IQ to better ergonomics etc. Recently upgraded to GX7, the improvement is still very significant not only in IQ, but also a lot of features added in last 2 years as well as small improvement here and there.

Happy to know you has a good camera and enjoy it.

The Bad

Of course, no camera is perfect, here are some items I wish were better:

• The strap, as expected is not great. When I used the GF3, which is much lighter, I lived with it, but for the G7 I've decided to invest in a sling. I've ordered one and will let people know how it turns out.
• Wi-Fi has been a disaster. It's not intuitive at all, I set it up and got it going, but then disconnected and couldn't get connected again. Even when it was connected the app is an interface disaster. This is a major fail on Panasonic's part.

Regarding wifi, I wonder had you connected G7 to your Phone/tablet. It should be easy and strict forward. Just following the in-camera instruction I could connect GX7 to my Android Phone without trouble (most general control like zoom action of PZ lenses, parameters setting, AF mode, Metering mode, burst/timer etc etc could all be controlled by phone/tablet, as well as file transfer). Its also easy to connect GX7 to Windows Phone (just limited to Jepg transfer). The wifi connection generally were quite reliable.

When connected to PC, although I managed to set up the wifi connection, I couldn't transfer images to my Windows 7 PC (failure a few times) and as GX7 requires me to input password every time for connection (very trouble to do so), I eventually gave up.

Not sure your experience on which part of wifi connection?

• The button in the center of the back dial is very difficult for me to reach. By default it's supposed to let you switch your dials to control ISO and WB. In practice, I found it much easier to use the dedicated buttons on the back to access those functions rather than try to twist and press that button. Perhaps people with bigger hands and longer fingers will do better. In the meantime I've reassigned that button to bracketing, which I will want to access every once in a while, but not all the time.
• I turned off the on-screen tabs, between the buttons and the Q-menu, which I customized, I can get to almost everything without them, and I prefer not to clutter up my display any more than it already is.

Conclusion

Overall I'm very pleased with the G7, as you may have gathered. It's not the perfect camera, but it's a big improvement for me and it addresses many of the things I wanted to improve from the GF3. I haven't even talked about 4k and 4k photo, which are both features that I look forward to exploring. I've also started to use a viewfinder for the first time as a photographer, and have found it to be very helpful in certain circumstances. This will likely be my main camera for the next four to five years, and I feel like I picked a model that will serve me well during that time.

Now, just need to pick up a couple more lenses...

Thanks for your information.