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Advice - which one would you pick?

Started May 16, 2016 | Questions thread
Aaron801 Veteran Member • Posts: 7,900
Re: It is no contest...GX7

I went from Panasonic to Olympus.... first having a GH2 and then an e-m10 mkI and though I agree that the Panasonic menus are a bit easier to deal with, after a bit of time with the Olympus, I didn't have any issue with the interface. I did spend some time going through all of the menus on the Olympus, which seems to have more options than my GH2, but many things are just set to the default to for me and the really important stuff can be accessed with the quick menu.

For me, the fact that the my e-m10 has IBIS and the mk II much better IBIS totally outweighs any issues about the interface, which as I said, I don't have much of a problem with anyway. The GX7 does seem like a very cool camera however (I liked my GH2 and like the design of Panasonic cameras) but I don't think that I'd get it over the e-m10 (mk I or mk II). If video capabilities or super-fast focusing were more important to me, I'd think about getting the G7 though, which is about the same price I think as the e-m10 mk II (and maybe even less).

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