How the G90/95 should look (tried to design it).

tt321 wrote:

dinoSnake wrote:

tt321 wrote:

Conversely, they massively listened to the super loud noise this forum made on wanting a rangefinder-style body with built-in VF in the upper left corner to produce the GX7, which was the first mFT in that configuration. Turned out that those loud noises were made by Oly fanatics who wanted a Pen in that configuration, and would not get close to anything Pana. My observation was that none - zero - of those loudly asking for such a camera here actually bought a GX7. And the GX7 is said to be one of the least successful commercially when it was one year old, compared to all other system cameras that were approx. one year old at the same time.

They were taught a clear lesson by this forum, and will never ever listen to it again.

It's safe to say that the G9, at this point of its life, is massively more popular if you count forum member owners, compared to the GX7 at a similar time after release. Nobody asked for a G9 like that, and quite a few bought one

Huh? IFAIK the GX7, in the end, turned out to be massively popular. If it took a bit to gain momentum, it was a pretty early m43 model with that level of advanced features (far superior to the GX1). I'd have to ask them, but overall I would hope they were happy with the GX7's sales results.

The price drops after year one helped quite a bit.

No doubt true - that's roughly when I bought mine. So you could say Panasonic were optimistic on there pricing with the GX7 - the Sony A6000's were flying off the shelves because they nailed it with the price. It may have even been a loss-leader to get folks tied to the mount and on the path to FF.

It's only recently that some Panasonic bodies are holding their price pretty well. In the past they used to really plummet.