Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

brentbrent wrote:

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.

As I got the camera this was indeed the behavior.  Yes, you can change the option, but as you get it out of the box, that is how it was done.

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.

Yes, I originally did not see it in the manual.  That is what threads like this are for for us to share our experiences.

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.

I don't see this as false.  I was saying it appears to be a useful feature that I haven't yet used.