Panasonic GF7: A cracking little camera

ThePalindrome wrote:

Nice detailed review, thanks. I think the GF7 is one of the most unappreciated cameras out there. A really good camera for beginners with easy controls but the capabilites of a full grown ILC. I also liked the comparison to the premium compacts.

Just let me add two details

justgo99 wrote:

12-32mm f/3.5-5.6 lens review:

However you do completely sacrifice any manual focusing capabilities with this lens. It's not an issue for me, since you can touch anywhere on the screen to focus on it, but it might matter for some. And that's it really.

You can manually focus the 12-32 even though there is no focus dial on it. When switching to MF as focusing slider is displayed on the touchscreen. Together with the focus peaking it actually works OK. A manual focus ring on the lens is nicer, but compared to the Olympus pancake zoom I like the Panasonic solution better, I often inadvertently touched the MF ring on the Oly 14-42 pancake.

Really? I didn't know that. I must not have been bothered to explore the menus and find it out myself. That would be nice to have, although it'd only really work for photos as it would be hard to constantly touch the screen while videoing.

Conclusion:

So should you buy one instead of, say an RX100 IV or LX100. Well, unless 4K video or a viewfinder is a must, definitely yes. An RX100 IV costs around $1000 compared to the $450 of the GF7. You could get the GF7 plus another lens or two for that money. And compared to a GM5? Well, you're paying $200 more for the latter; you're getting a touchscreen and an extra dial, but you're losing the tilting screen.

I think you meant "you're getting an EVF". The GF7 has a touchscreen (as you obviously know ) in contrast to the $1000 Sony RX100 which doesn't!

Thanks again!