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Looking for a small pocketable m4/3 solution...

Started Oct 1, 2015 | Discussions thread
TheClueless
TheClueless Senior Member • Posts: 2,140
Re: Narrowed down my choices to..

Yannis1976 wrote:

to LX7 (around 250E), GF5 (300E+12-32) and also trying to find a cheap GM1.

What do you think?

Even the crappy kit on the GM1 is going to get you better pictures than an LX7.

Control is a slightly different matter - you could successfully argue that the LX has better handling than the GM, though the touch screen may equalise matters in some aspects.

I personally wouldn't consider the GM1 as pocketable - even with the kit, which is the smallest lens in the m4/3 lineup bar the cap-lens. But it is very small. The LX7 is actually significantly bulkier overall despite having a less pronounced lens hump and again, I wouldn't call it pocketable.

The RX100 is the only camera in your original shortlist that is - unless you're rocking rave gear or look like one of those old photographers who look like fishermen

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