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It's time to replace the carry around camera

Started Oct 31, 2015 | Discussions thread
Louis_Dobson
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Re: GM5 ordered

Kit lens is simply too slow for me.

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Louis_Dobson wrote:

Ah, I missed the lack of IBIS. That's a major PITA, but still you can't have everything.
Short battery life too.

You might also have missed that some have bought one of the GM series simply to get that tiny but very effective stabilsed kit lens.

The lack of IBIS and battery have never worried me with my GM bodies. They are small enough and cheap enough to have one dedicated to each lens and to be able to treat them as individual cameras and not replaceable lens cameras.

The only think they are short of is a quick and easy way to keep their firmware setup synchronised, but they are not alone there in that regard.

papillon_65 wrote:

Louis_Dobson wrote:

Thanks all for the discussion.
I had not seriously considered the GM5 because I didn't realise it has a built in viewfinder.
Perfect camera on paper. Why does anyone buy anything else? What have I missed?

Probably the main reasons are that it doesn't have IBIS and for some people it's too small and fiddly. I have the GM1 and think it's great with the tiny but excellent pancake zoom, truly pocketable, and its a stabilised lens.

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