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G5X, G9X coming?

Started Oct 7, 2015 | Discussions thread
kodakrome
kodakrome Senior Member • Posts: 1,026
Re: G5X, G9X coming?

arrow501 wrote:

If that's genuine I am excited to see an EVF and an articulated screen on the g5x. I am less excited about it's lens. It's too short and if it's the exact same lens as the g7x it will have the same soft close-ups at wide apertures.

It will be interesting to see what they are priced at. Unless the g9x is cheap I can't see them selling many.

As far as "soft close-ups at wide apertures" - I own a G7X, but I have no idea if that's true or not. With close ups there's very little depth of field. Shooting close ups wide open would result in razor thin depth of field, and it can be very difficult to achieve focus where you want it. So is the lens "soft", or is it just out of focus? Those are two different issues.

It's very common for people to stop the lens way down with close ups in order to get more depth of field, otherwise only a small part of a bug or flower will be in focus. If I'm shooting close ups with a 1 inch sensor, I'm probably going to be stopped down to F8 and with a larger sensor to F11 or F16. I cannot imagine any scenario where I would want to do close ups wide open.

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