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Replacing My G12: G7X MkII, G1X Mk II or ?

Started Feb 19, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Re: Replacing My G12: G7X MkII, G1X Mk II or ?

ianxponent wrote:

Just an update. Thanks to folks who provided some good insight, I added the G5X to my list of G12 replacements. After handling it, I felt the G7X Mk II was just a wee bit on the small side for me and with its significantly higher refurb price just wasn't compelling enough for my needs compared to the G5X and the G1X Mk II. I went back and forth on those two. The G5X had lighter weight, the EVF, and fully articulating screen. OTOH, the G1X Mk II had a slightly longer zoom, an excellent lens and sensor combo with great potential for shooting shallow depth of field shots that I know I would use frequently. After handling the G5X and using its EVF, I was disappointed in how I had to fussily shift my eye to see all the info presented. This may be related to a condition I have in my eyes that results in a slightly distorted view of the world when my vision is corrected to 20:20. In any event, that made the EVF of limited use to me and so swung the scale to the G1X Mk II. So, that's what I've ordered and it should be here next week in time to acquaint myself with it before a long weekend trip to San Francisco in two weeks. My partner will now have the G12 to himself which he will certainly appreciate as an option to the camera in his Galaxy S8+!

Hope it works out OK. Always difficult to advise on what to get so good luck. I think all in all the G1X II is a useful bit of kit. The reviewers seemed to struggle classifying it and criticised its size without adjusting to what it did. A camera like the Olympus Stylus 1 the last of the 1/1.7 inchers that you get while you can because its like will not appear again.

It will be interesting to hear how you get on with it.

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