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moving on, selling gear

Started Jul 11, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP socal4142 Regular Member • Posts: 279
Re: moving on, selling gear

Great question, and I've had a lot of angst about this one. I'm sure someone could argue me out of my reasons :-). I should be quick to say that for the price I still think the Samsung NX system is the best available right now.

But I essentially decided that for a system with no future, it was too expensive of a risk to keep.

It's partly because I just burned out a camera from overheating (not a Samsung), and that woke me up to the risk of having a camera fail.

It's partly just financial - I don't anticipate having funds anytime in the near future for extra gear. So since the opportunity to sell is fairly good right now, I decided I needed to make the move to have funds available for something else.

The last part of the story is the Panasonic GX85. When I made the move to Samsung, I switched from micro four thirds. I love mft. I made the switch right when they released the GX8 (I loved my GX7) and I remember thinking, "Oh, Panasonic, you almost kept me. But this GX8 is a little disappointing, and way too expensive."

But the GX85 potentially answers all of my frustrations with the GX8, it comes with one of my favorite mft lenses (12-32), Panasonic is offering 3-year warranties right now, and they've released that wonderful little 42.5 1.7 lens. So that's the direction I'm headed.

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