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Pen F vs GX9

Started Nov 28, 2018 | Discussions thread
daleeight Veteran Member • Posts: 3,199
Re: Get GX9
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yanisha wrote:

I have the PEN-F and I like it a lot. I suggest that for you the GX9 would be better though. The PEN-F has 2 bad features for street photography that annoy me and cause many missed shots for the 2 years I have owned it:

1. Relatively slow wakeup from sleep mode and power on time. I have missed many shots because of this. My 3 OM-D bodies are the same. My Panasonic G3 is faster and I rarely missed shots with it.

2. For street shooting the GX9 quick to deploy, hidden tilting rear screen is much better than the PEN-F slow to deploy, awkward, very visible side mounted FAS screen.

I don't agree that the Pen-F is slow to wake. Don't find it slow, but maybe I am.

I do agree that if I was the head of Olympus camera division I would really ask the Engineers and bean counters about making 2 versions.... one with flip out and around LCD and another with the tilt up and down from the E-M5 camera. Like the Pen-FF (flip) and Pen-FT (tilt)... but that is me. I can see the 2 different camps opinion on the LCD's

And if they could do it as a plug-in, they could sell the other LCD screen to people who want both sometimes. Modular. Changeable back in a m43 body. Interesting thought at least.

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