Pen F vs GX9

Keithpictures wrote:

Tommi K1 wrote:

Sergey Borachev wrote:

The best post so far IMO. The PEN really looks like a fantastic little street shooter, but it has been ruined unfortunately, by the two points you made.

Every camera is ruined with the side articulating screen. The tilt is still the best choice, regardless that you get one shot from the thousand that is more difficult to take vertically and angled up/down over 15 degrees so you have difficulties to see the screen.

The side articulating screen is legacy of the old technlogical limitations that required to find a other way to get the screen tilted up/down when everything else took so much space.

The Fuji is first one to solve that problem of vertical shooting past 15 degree angle up/down in X-T2 and X-T3. Best screen hinge design ever made.

Absolutely. The fully articulating screens are not good. I can appreciate the screen facing the subject, but not like that. Actually, I think the Fujifilm X-T100 is the absolute best, because it has the usual up/down tilting that I use every day, but also flips forward on the side hinge, which I think is more useful than the extra tilt right.

If you are going to do video recording of yourself, then you are looking at the lens and not the screen.

If you are going to do video recording of yourself, then you want to be far away from the camera because perspective and use something like a 40-100mm focal length and that means you can't see the screen anyways.

Same thing goes for the self-portraits, camera on tripod/platform and back off to better distance for better composition and framing. In either way you don't do anything with the screen to front.

10 years ago that was a better than nothing. But comparing that to example E-M1 that was first Olympus WiFi capable ILC at 2013 (5 years ago), it turned everything around because now the smartphone on your pocket is your remote screen. No more squinting trying to see what the 3" screen (or worse, 2.2-2.5") at 2-3 meter distance is showing, as your 4-7" smartphone screen on palm has the Live View as the controls to adjust your expoure, focus, effects, start/stop recording etc etc.

Want to do a complex architecture shot where you put camera on two legs (tripod third leg stored in) to corner of the room with UWA lens? Can't use the screen for that as you are still in the frame and it is anyways difficult to use as you are front of it. Just turn on the WiFi and remotely check the framing and then adjust camera and finally adjust exposure for it when you are somewhere in 20-30 meter distance unvisible.

The one challenging part is to have the camera vertically, where it hangs on your hand (you grab it from above, not below) when you do low level shooting, meaning you need to have screen to tilt UP. Something that X-T100 doesn't do at all. So it is not solving that problem.

The other challenging part is to have camera vertically, where it is on your hand (grab it from below) when you do high level shooting, meaning you need to have screen tilting DOWN. And again something that the X-T100 doesn't do at all.

The tilting on X-T100 is totally wrong direction. It swings out to the left, while it should swing out to the right. And that is what the X-T2 and X-T3 design does, it tilts exactly right direction and looks right when you raise camera above your head or you lower camera below your hip.

If you keep the grip down when camera is down, you are doing it wrong, as now you are balancing the camera on your hand at low level, requiring you to get even more lower and it is almost same as not having tilt screen at all as your hand might be touching the floor to get that camera at lowest possible level and you can't have camera front of you in natural pose but you need to tilt yourself to the right to have better wrist angle.

If you keep grip up when camera is up, you are doing it wrong. It is not same thing as vertical shooting eye on the viewfinder where the grip is hold on above. As you must get camera as high as possible, and by keeping grip up you lose 35-40 cm in height if grip is up.

Personally speaking, I would more likely take advantage of vlogging than of vertical compositions that demand tilting the screen.

Then best choice is the WiFi capable camera, small table tripd (weights like 50g + choice of mini-head)  and smartphone. No more odd UWA shooting just to one see the screen. And anyways one quickly learns the wide angle lenses field of view by the axis of the camera.

As the X-T100 screen is again compromise that X-T2 and X-T3 are not at all.