Robin Wong G9 Review - Thoughts?

Brian Wadie wrote:

Holistic Photog wrote:

Brian Wadie wrote:

Robin Wong is an Olympus employee. You might get the review you want of the G9 out of him, but you won't get an accurate or reliable review. That much is certain.

It's so obvious, I'm not even going to bother reading it, as I don't think I'll get anything out of it.

""The continuous AF is one of the best I have seen on a Micro Four Thirds camera" - This is also interesting in his conclusion. He does not say it out right, but he essentially claims the new DFD C-AF is better than the PDAF on the EM1.2..."

I have never seen a direct comparison of the G9 and the E-M1 II for CAF, and I believe I've only seen one person directly compare the GH5 to the E-M1 II for CAF. And I believe that was Jorginho. My reading of his comments would indicate he believed the GH5 was ahead.

The issue is that in the DPReview, the G9 was put through more rigorous and demanding tests than the E-M1 II, and I'm dubious that the E-M1 II would even perform as well as the G9.

The only way to know for sure which performs better under which circumstances is to do a direct head to head comparison, which was never done. And again, I don't think the E-M1 II will come up looking great here.

"One of the Best"

Not

"The Best"

So he just as easily be saying it now matches or comes close to the EM-! mk2 PDAF system?

I don't know how the G9 compares to the E-M1 II PDAF for sure, but I do know the G9 will perform better in SAF in low light, as does the GH5. So, saying that it now just comes close is provably inaccurate.

Let's not forget that Olympus can only do good AF with PDAF, and they only put that in their E-M1 series. Panasonic is actually far ahead in AF in virtually their entire lineup.

Please note - I am in the process of ordering a G9 so have no axe to grind, just pointing out what he said vs your interpretation

I'm sorry but I take exception to this:

"Brian Wadie wrote:

Robin Wong is an Olympus employee. You might get the review you want of the G9 out of him, but you won't get an accurate or reliable review. That much is certain.

It's so obvious, I'm not even going to bother reading it, as I don't think I'll get anything"

I wrote no such thing, as you will see if you check my contributions

If you check, I think you will find that Robin is an Ex-Olympus employee, since 29th April 2017

https://robinwong.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/with-heavy-heart-i-have-left-olympus.html

so you couldn't even get that right

I looked at his review, against my better judgment, and I actually thought his review was favorable to the G9. He noted some things the G9 does better than the E-M1 II, and I can't provably say anything in his review is colored by bias.

But, I stand by my statement that, as a rule, people with ties to a company, paid or not, are not reliable reviewers. I've seen problems with this far too often.

As a side not, the guy is a fantastic photographer. Easily the best shots I've ever seen from a reviewer. Any camera he reviews will probably benefit from his review because of the quality of the photographs, so I'll leave it alone.