Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

MrWalrusGumboot wrote:

Michael Meissner wrote:

I've been using Olympus cameras since 2001, picking up a D-510Z after coming back from Disney World with cash left over that was burning a hole in my pocket. I have had many fine Olympus bodies over the years (C-2100UZ, E-1, E-510, E-3, E-P2, E-5, E-PM2, Stylus-1, E-M5, E-M1 mark 1) and still own/shoot many of them. I just recently bought my first Panasonic body (G85), and I thought I would mention some things as I explore the new way of shooting.

If others also want to post about getting a Panasonic after using Olympus, or vice versa, feel free to do. It will be interesting to see the differences and perhaps the things in common.

To start out, with my reasons for picking the G85 this time, was I have a trip to Hawaii planned for February. I find strong sunlight is one of my migraine triggers, and I need to wear wrap around sunglasses all of the time when I'm outdoors in the sun to reduce the frequency of the migraine attacks.

I'll post each of the observations as a separate post in the thread.

How about this one? In terms of setting up your function buttons: On the most recent Panny cameras (I tried it on GX85 & G85) you can just hold down the Fn button to re-assign the function. No need to go through the menu's to customise the Fn buttons.

So a short press will activate the function that is set, but a long press will enable you to change it to something else. Awesome idea.

This is something that also happens with the relatively recent Fuji models, and Olympus (again, the reasonably recent ones) has something somewhat analogous with the Fn button "reminder" section at the bottom right corner of the SCP.  Cycle through to see what's where, but tap or OK on a setting and you're instantly in the setting screen to alter that button to something else.

Funnily enough, with the Panasonic system, I coincidentally discovered the long press Fn button functionality, purely by accident, about 6 hours before I read the above post!