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Who's more reliable/less prone to malfunction? - Olympus vs Panasonic

Started Mar 6, 2017 | Polls thread
gary0319
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Re: My Em1.2 stalls every now and then

Jorginho wrote:

Yesterday I changed from C1 to C2 and nothing. Tipped the AF. Nothing. Set it to C3...it just did not change a bit (while it is a vastly different setting). Turned the cam off, then on and started at C1 (while starting up). Fine. Than to C2...stalled...Okey..hmm. Didn't need it, just was checking.

Came home. Took out the battery...inserted it again. Switched from C1 to C2..and it worked fine. It has stalled on other occasions as well but somehow it rarely happens and taking out the battery always solved it

No C2 is set to do C-AF at autoISO with burst mode. Fine. But why is the batteryindicator now no longer 39% but instead 36 minutes?? It isn't set for video??? Did look in it too well, but will do whenever I have time.

Did my Panasonics ever stall on me (G1, GH2 and Gh4)....I have to say: no.

Is that worth something? No. 1 Oly and three Panny cams are meaningless. I would add however that I have the impression that for both cams I am not the only one, so may be indeed the lack of complaints about stalling Panny cams or other problems might be a sign of some better QC.

That has happened to me also, but then I realized that I must have inadvertently hit the video button while in C-AF ( at least the audio level bars were on).I also have the video button repurposed to the "magnify" feature so that may have something to do with it.

I don't consider this to be a malfunction,  though.

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