A terrific and versatile camera

Michael Meissner wrote:

I've had the G85 for about 16 months now. Depending on what I'm doing it is either the second choice camera (after the E-m1 mark I) or the first choice.

I have two major gripes with the G85 that keep me more in the Olympus camp:

• The G85 tends to blow out highlights more often than the E-m1 mark I given normal metering. Note, I see the same behavior on my other Panasonic cameras (LX-10, FZ300), and most of my Olympus cameras are similar to the E-m1 mark I. I like shooting events, particularly renaissance faires and steampunk events, and the men in these events tend to wear white shirts, which tends to get burned out. Now, there are various ways to fix this, and I've been trying them over time. In general though, I want to be able to hold the camera in my hand, raise it to my eye, take the phone, and put it back down when I see a decisive moment coming up. If I have to adjust the exposure compensation, enable/disable dynamic metering, and/or play with the tone curve, either the decisive moment passes, or the subject twigs that I'm shooting them, and will change their behavior.
• I shoot JPG almost exclusively, and the G85 is more heavy handed than Olympus is in using noise removable software, which sands away the details. Yes, I've set the NR parameter so it is less noticeable, but still, I tend to feel more comfortable in restricting the G85 to ISO 3200 at the most, when my E-m1 is set to ISO 6400. I do enough shooting using available light, that I tend to grab the Olympus over the Panasonic. Again on my other two Panasonic cameras, I notice the NR sander more often.

Thanks for your input, Michael.  I only shoot raw and hadn't noticed any blown highlight issues when I used to shoot my EM5.2 and GX7 together.  In fact, the presets I made for the two cameras ended up being fairly close, too.  Both had the highlights reduced a bit and the shadows brought up a bit more.  Maybe it's more of a jpg engine issue?  I also have a dislike of blown highlights.  I'm more forgiving of blocked up blacks than blown highlights.