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My G7X first impressions (not even a preview...)

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Yannis1976
Yannis1976 Veteran Member • Posts: 6,308
My G7X first impressions (not even a preview...)
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Hi,

Yesterday I received a G7X as a gift and I managed to have some shots with it:

1) construction is very good, better than my Panny GX7 which already considered good.

2) it's bit bigger and heavier than I expected, pocket-able only in a jacket.

3) AF speed so far is much better than I expected. I would say its equal or better than my GX7+20mm/1.7 combo (which however is considered a slow focus lens)

4) Image quality seems also very good. DOF and bokeh are worse than the m43 setup but this was expected due to sensor size and lens.

5) High ISO noise seems also good. It appears much sooner than m43, at 800 but even 3200 images were quite useable!

6) JPEGs are very good so far and although I am a RAW shooter, I might just leave this camera on JPEG.

7) RAW shooting is slow!! Not only because burst is very slow but also because after each RAW image, screen goes black for a couple of seconds.

Here are some samples:

Played a bit with shadows/highlights and saturation in LR

Cropped from original and edited in LR. ISO is 5000 (!) but it isn't that bad and I don't think it would show bad in print.

 Yannis1976's gear list:Yannis1976's gear list
Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 R Fujifilm XF 70-300 F4-5.6 R LM OIS WR
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