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Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

Started Nov 20, 2016 | Discussions thread
Helen
Helen Veteran Member • Posts: 7,606
Re: Back LCD

Michael Meissner wrote:

One more note about polarization, all of the back LCDs also have polarization effects. Unlike the viewfinders, the effect shows up in portrait orientation instead of landscape orientation. The Olympus LCDs are darker, but still usable when viewed with polarized sunglasses, but the G85 is completely opaque and is unusable. It is a trade off, most of the time when I'm using the camera's LCD, it is mounted on a tripod, or in one of my steampunk camera box setups. In those cases, it is almost entirely in landscape orientation.

Now, an option might have been to have an OLED panel. Olympus did this with the TG-2 (and maybe other TG-x's), but they don't seem to have done this for the higher end cameras.

They did it with the E-P3 and the original E-M5, as it happens. On the Panasonic side, the current GX8 has an OLED monitor as well as the OLED EVF.

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