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Anyone considering the Pany G9 over the GH5 for video and stills?

Started Dec 20, 2017 | Discussions thread
brentbrent Veteran Member • Posts: 5,766
Re: Anyone considering the Pany G9 over the GH5 for video and stills?

_vlad wrote:

My first reaction after announcement of G9 was disappointment (bought GH5 in April or so).

Next was GAS.... now I am relaxed and reasons are these.

[snip]

So no, my GAS is cured and I will happily wait til 2019/20 either for GH6 or G10 - not sure which one right now. G9 is fine, slightly improved in some areas seriously cut down in video department. That is it.

I assume that anyone who bought the GH5 is pretty serious about video, and for those folks I wouldn't expect the slight stills improvements of the G9 to be reason to move to a G9, given its lesser video specs.

The GH5 looked like a great stills camera to me, but I didn't want to pay $2K for one since I am not that much into video.  So for me, the G9 at $300 less, with some stills improvements, and I think better ergonomics, is enough for me to open my wallet.

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