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Panasonic G85 from an Olympus user

Started Nov 20, 2016 | Discussions thread
Michael Meissner
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Strap lugs

I'm now in Hawaii and using the camera more, so I thought I would update my thoughts on the camera.

One minor annoyance is that the little plastic guard on the triangles connecting to the strap lugs keeps falling out.  Perhaps if I only attached the strap and never took it off, it would be fine, but it does seem to be mis-designed.

On the  E-M1, the plastic part is around the strap lug, while the bare part of the triangle is where you attach the strap, while on the G85, the plastic part is where you put the strap.  After it has fallen off a few times, I'm not re-attaching the plastic part.

That being said, I hate the triangles in general.  I wish Olympus/Panasonic would go back to making the strap attachment part of the body at the top, so the lug doesn't protrude when you hold the camera, and it is more secure.  Olympus did this for some of the older DSLRs (E-510/E-520/E-620), and I wish they would go back.

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