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Poll - get a 7-14mm for my G7, or upgrade to G85?

Started Apr 8, 2018 | Polls thread
spike29 Senior Member • Posts: 2,471
Re: Poll - get a 7-14mm for my G7, or upgrade to G85?

i didn't vote because well depents on what you are missing out now.

- once in a wile need more angle? use panorama in portrait. i decided to do that.

- want to go out and shoot wide scenes or in narrow places? get the 7-14 or 8-18.

i did skip the g7 and waited (didn't know what i wanted and was affraid the investment did't paid out. in pleasure i mean.) but the g80 was that packed and full of improvements over the g7 that i turned from wanted 1" bridge to m43.

in between solution: buy the g80 and get a 7mm loawa prime instead of uaw zoom.

you gain new shutter mechanism, weatherproof body, dual IS2, DFD?(G7 has that to i believe.) touchscreen, more 4k solutions like focusstacking in 4k and rw2.bracketing.

and maybe some more things i can't recal which are not available in the G7.

But does the G80 in A-mode vs G7 in A-mode a better job? it should be because its newer. 🙂

- if you buy the g80 you can keep the g7 as second/backup body.

- if you buy a lens, in the future wil be a oppertunity to buy second hand a g80. or viseversa.

you see there are lots more roads to Rome. 😀

only you can get al ducks in a row for this decision.

(if it was me having a g7 il wil waiting to skip one upgrade and see what the "G90" wil bring and decide then if i buy the G80 or the new one. ( then the sellingprice is reduced by the new G90.)

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