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G85 overheating? record time? light sensitivity? stabilization?

Started Jan 25, 2018 | Discussions thread
Tim200 Regular Member • Posts: 405
Re: G85 - with kit lenses

JosephScha wrote:

You wrote:

"... a church or hotel meeting room. Those are a real unknown. ... The plan is to use, 2 G85s - each with the kit lens"

Well if you insist on using the kit lens ... I suppose 14-42mm is a reasonable zoom range for indoor work, but the minimum f stop you can achieve - especially at 42mm - is somewhat high. And church interiors can be quite dim.

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That's 1/50 sec at f/2; 1/25 sec t f/2.8; 1/12 sec at f/4; 1/6 sec at f/5.6. Or, alternatively, to keep 1/100 sec at f/5.6 you would need to use ISO 3200. I think you will find noise at ISO 3200 to be undesirable. It's not that you can't get tame it, you can; but of course at the expense of sharpness.

Agree!  I was shooting video of my children last night in typical room lighting with a gx85 (which I assume is close to g85 in low light performance).  I had to expose at iso 3200 and 6400.  Both IMO would be unacceptable for anything other than casual personal video.  Even iso 1600 would be borderline if I were doing work for others.

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