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Is Panasonic gear's reliability and durability levels comparable to Canon/Nikon gear?

Started Nov 26, 2017 | Discussions thread
thelightwriter Contributing Member • Posts: 620
Re: Is Panasonic gear's reliability and durability levels comparable to Canon/Nikon gear?

I've been using Panasonic  gear for the past ten years or so, from little compacts up to my current mirrorless GX85 and never had them fail me. I had a compact that my sister dropped on the corner of a chair hard enough to render the part of the screen that hit the edge black but its been about three years and it still works.

Just as I got home and walked into the house from buying my GX85 another sister's dog jumped on me hard enough to break the camera strap and my GX85 hit our hard wood floors pretty hard, bounced a few times and ended up about five, seven feet away. I'm pretty sure my heart stopped for a few seconds and I had a small panic attack but the camera was fine. Haven't had any issues with it and its been eight months now, still going.

I've only ever had one Canon dslr and within the first fifty photos I started getting dead pixels and got even more after the next fifty. I know that's probably not typical of Canon dslrs. I've had several M4/3 cameras starting with the Olympus E-P2 ( which I sometimes still use.) and never had any reliability problems with any of them.

 thelightwriter's gear list:thelightwriter's gear list
Olympus E-M5 II Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85 Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 50mm 1:2.0 Macro Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm 1:2.8-4.0 SWD Panasonic Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH +9 more
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