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

Started Nov 26, 2017 | Discussions thread
Stejo
Stejo Senior Member • Posts: 1,461
Re: Is Panasonic gear's reliability and durability levels comparable to Canon/Nikon gear?

Coming from a background of professional video camcorders, Panasonic seem to take reliability very seriously. I've seen interviews where they discuss how they adjust the feature sets of their cameras to ensure maximum reliability under any usage pattern. As opposed to let's say Sony. And I've yet to see a Panasonic camera fail in the few years I've been working with them.

Not everything is rosy though. Something will break sooner or later no matter how well built. And unfortunately their service network is severely lacking pretty much everywhere except the UK apparently. Just something to consider.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7 Panasonic GH5 Samyang 85mm F1.4 Aspherical IF Samyang 7.5mm F3.5 Fisheye Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Art +7 more
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