socal4142 wrote:
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.
Yes a very nice cam allround. 5axis in video (video that has no logs files but at the price it is oney). Very nice 5a xis with Panny lenses even a bit better than Oly's version. Good IQ in stills and video, Much smalller than my GH4. I think a great, light and small choice. AF is also far superior to GX7 for action. What isnot to like?