GX8 - Disappointed with shuttershock

Arctra wrote:

cameron2 wrote:

So here's my question: What do you think was different that these issues started showing up all of a sudden? Had you used those body/lens combinations before? Did you change any particular settings? I do believe your story completely, but I'd like to understand how it could have happened on a camera that previously didn't exhibit this behavior for you.

The only thing that really changed between now and prior was that I updated the GX8's firmware to the latest version. I don't think that would've negatively altered anything. It's possible it was user error as I'm not fully comfortable with Panny's UI yet. I will say I had been noticing some weird focusing behavior with a new Lumix 25 f1.7 prior to the event where it would occasionally front or back focus from where I put the point but I thought that was more of the lens' fault at the time.

So you are on v2.1 I assume.

Theoretically, the front/back focus issues with CDAF could be the camera's fault, or the lens' fault, or both. The focus motors are in the lens, but the camera tells it what to do. I'm not sure how to diagnose that one. How far off was focus? Was there any sort of pattern?

I'm still curious if what you were witnessing was shutter shock or some other flaw occurring. I've never been able to identify shutter shock without close examination on a large monitor, so if you were able to see it in-camera, I have to suggest (from my limited knowledge and experience) that either it was quite extreme shutter shock, or it was something else entirely that was contributing to horribly soft images.

The GX8 has generally been a solid camera for me, but like you, I've had a few times where it completely failed me (a few of which were actually completely my fault, and a few of which were camera issues). I'm just hoping we can figure out what caused the issue you saw.