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Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

Started Nov 20, 2016 | Discussions thread
brentbrent Veteran Member • Posts: 5,767
Re: Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

I hope you end up enjoying the camera. I've owned a G7 and handled a G85, and I have a positive opinion of both. In terms of being helpful to others considering making a switch to Panasonic and who may not read through all of this thread, though, I do think it is unfortunate that you have made several erroneous statements. It might have been better to spend a bit more time with the manual first, or ask questions about a feature. Here are three such statements:

Michael Meissner wrote:

In looking at the G-85, the camera's interface for P/A/S is setup more for a camera with single dial. The default interface uses either dial to set the main setting (program shift, aperture, shutter speed). To set exposure compensation, you have to press the exposure compensation button and rotate a dial.

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I have my Olympus cameras set up so that I can use the arrow pad to change focus points when I'm using the EVF (i.e. not using the 4 arrow keys for their normal pre-defined meaning). There doesn't seem to be anything similar on the G-85. Instead, the G-85 I seem to have to use the touch screen.

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In terms of menu buttons, having the quick menu being programmable so that you can bring up the items you use all of the time, might be useful in the future.

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