Buyer's Regret: GX8

tomhongkong wrote:

You are entitled to your opinion, but in my view it is absolute rubbish.

If someones opinion is in your opinion rubbish, then you are entitled for that, but it makes your opinion as rubbish as well.

Starting with your strange comment about the name, the GX name is for the rangefinder style, and GX8 is entirely appropriate.

Well, if you would have read my post you would understand.

Then, I am not sure what percentage of owners are dissatisfied with the camera, but almost every post I read from someone who actually owns one is positive.

If you would read my post you would understand....

The shutter shock issue is there, but most actual users will tell you that it does not give them a problem.

The electronic shutter in the GX8 isn't fast that wouldn't be a problem while panning or when subjects are moving. That is the problem that many of the defenders for that shutter shock are avoiding as the default fix is to set it to auto and when the shutter speed is in the danger zone then the electronic shutter is used automatically, ruining many shots...

Because of the perceived need on this forum to prove that 'their' make is better, it has been blown out of all proportion by owners of some cameras.

If you would have read my post you would have understood... I only stated that how out of the water the GX8 performance was blown because the problems in it.

I, for one, would not swap my GX8 for a PEN F, and indeed had the opportunity when I bought it to go that way, but preferred the GX8 as a camera.

Yes... I wouldn't buy neither one as both ain't for my needs...

The GX8 is certainly larger than some other bodies, but probably is not of larger volume than the OM-D E-M1. Are they also bricks? Some people, you know, actually prefer the larger bodies.

If you would have read my post you would understand....

I suspect that you have never used one yourself, but feel the need to chip in with nonsense.

I see that you know nothing about me and you didn't read what I wrote, so you just wanted to say some rubbish about someones opinion.

Back to the OP, he may have problems with his perceived colour, but it is easily adjusted if the problem exists.

Then go and help him, I didn't even mention anything about the color problems, you would have noticed that too if you would have read my post. So don't write rubbish but go and help him!

So he doesn't like the size or handling? Many people do like the GX8. He bought the wrong camera. He can hardly blame the camera for that. Maybe he is the lemon instead of the camera!

tom

So now it is again the person instead the gear having problems? First you want to start with personal attack by replying someone how his opinion is rubbish, and then you start defending a body and how the problems he mentions can be fixed (without helping him) and then implifying how he is the problem instead the camera body he is having.

We can do mistakes choosing the gear, but still the gear can have a problems.

Like PEN F has a problem with the C-AF performance that Olympus has not even tried to fix with firmware. But why that is a problem when testers has put it tested in the situations that isn't even the target group requirements!

GX8 is designed for many situations where a motion is there. A electronic shutter is bad as the readout speed is slow 1/25 that works fairly well for stationary subjects (far better than Ie. E-M1 with 1/13 readout speed that doesn't work well even stationary subjects if camera moves slightly) but you will get a point that 1/25 doesn't work always well for even walking person nor running one.

So how often you want to use the electronic shutter to avoid the mechanical shutter shutter shock?

But as you don't know, I like the GX8 body but it isn't for me. Just like I like the PEN F but it isn't for me. But you didn't even read my post but you just went straight ahead to personal attack about someones opinion.