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Is the EVF on GX9 really worse than that on the GX7

Started Apr 21, 2018 | Discussions thread
alcelc
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Re: The same magnification of 0.7x

Ivan Guoh wrote:

I don't have the GX7 but compared with my 5-year old EM-5, I find the EM-5 better, which is really surprising. I think size wise they are about the same but I cannot explain it - I find the GX9 EVF difficult to see clearly. I wear glasses by the way.

Because Pany use a 16:9 display unit on GX7/85/9. Under 16:9 format for still or shooting video, it is excellent to have a larger evf (EM10 is only 0.62x IIRC, EM5 is slightly larger at 0.74x but of lower resolution 2.36M dot vs GXs' 2.74M dot).

When shooting in 4:3 full resolution format, around 25% of the evf would be black out and so, the viewable area would be reduced to roughly 0.53x of 2M dot... small and still high resolution to the combined effect of never comfortable for long time using . A major reason that many users are more happy with EM10's physically smaller evf.

The sequential display unit also causes a lot of problem like tearing etc (not for me). If Pany can use a OLED 4:3 display unit, it would actually be a frantastic evf I think.

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