Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

Bruce Clarke wrote:

Can anyone confirm the the Panasonic 12-35 f2.8 and 35-100 f2.8 work OK with the Dual mode IS2? Looking at the Panasonic support site, it suggests they are OK. That would be a bonus switching from Oly bodies for me.

Does Panasonic have the equivalent of the Oly super control panel with touch access from it? I see there's a Quick menu, but can't find any photos of it.

Bruce

It sort of does. There's the Quick Menu, which is superimposed on live view, which is either preset - effectively a way of making the various data elements displayed on the top and bottom of the frame accessible for alteration (but via the buttons, typically, as in my setup trying to touch them actually moves the AF point instead), or customised, which has a whole different look (you can choose between them and swap between them if required). With the customised version, you can put in the functions you want (from an available list), where you want in the order you want, and then they come up superimposed as pretty big icons over the middle area of the live view image and are touch-selectable (and buttons/dials if preferred). Alternatively, there's also a display mode which rather looks like the SCP - all the important settings filling the screen, touch-selectable and interactive (as well as with buttons/dials) - the pay-off is that there is no live view "underneath" that display on the monitor (so a bit like the non-live view alternative version of the SCP you can have on the OM-D cameras and the Pen-F if you want) - it's on a black background. It's effectively like Canon's DSLR Q screen, or Sony mirrorless cameras' "for viewfinder" data screen in its approach (except most Sonys can't do touchscreen interaction, of course, only buttons and dials!).