It's time to replace the carry around camera

The problem with the electronic shutter is it loses 1EV of DR.  And the reason I am dumping my existing camera, which I like very much otherwise, is to get more DR.

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Aaron801 wrote:

Louis_Dobson wrote:

Clearly you can't have everything. It's become clear to me now that the Oly tiny camera compromise is leaving out the viewfinder and the Panny one is a very simple shutter and no IBIS. Both give you a tiny battery.
With the benefit of hindsight I might have been better off going for the Oly compromise with a VF2. But I didn't, so let's see.

I've been really happy with my e_m10 with it's fairly high quality built in EVF. It isn't tiny, but is very small, has generous easy to handle physical controls and IBIS. Still part of me would love a really tine extra m4/3 body. I think that I could live with less in the way of physical controls, no IBIS (impossible in a body this small) and the lesser quality VF. The fact though that the e-shutter is a bit of an IQ limitation might bother me... if I could really tell any difference in IQ. if so, that might be too big of a sacrifice for having that extra small cam.

Well the GM1/5 are really tiny although some might say that they are only a little bit smaller. It is a case of what fits fits. The E-M10 might be regarded as what might be the smallest effective full-tote odds camera body without a lot of compromises. When it gets smaller it is just a matter of how much convenience (a word I use carefully) that the user might agree to do without to get this smaller physical size.

Panasonic thought quite carefully about what they could excise without seriously compromising real world performance and I think that they achieved it. But it was never going to be 100% of what conveniences a larger body might offer. I am surprised that the subject has not drifted over to discussing how these cameras are so small that there is nothing much to grip on. Another convenience lost and the subject of much debate in GM land.

I may be purblind and in my dotage but I cannot see any real problem in real life photography in using an electronic shutter. It is not only silent but is also very fast acting with it. If the occasional Lartique-like sloping moving vehicle crops up I just think it a cool effect and try again.

So the flash synch limit is 1/50 second. Mmmm the GM5 does not have a built in flash and only pops a flash unit into the box for emergencies. I may have lost mine already (along with 75% of other GM5 owners .... ). I did try it out to confirm that it works.

I fail to see all this profound "I could not make these sacrifices" talk when it is pretty plain that if you really wnat a full house of conveniences then even the E-M10 makes some sacrifices and if you want them all (the conveniences) then by all means step up the model rungs - E-M5, E-M1 or even A7R II which is still a dslr short of perfection.

If small and smaller is required then auto-transmission might be turfed out - a pity that we can forget how to use manual transmission (or never have learned).