Pen F vs GX9

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.

See my post about the PEN-F FAS:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/60910968

Yes, I really like my PEN-F, but I dislike the FAS. I much prefer the tilt one on my E-M10II, E-M10, and E-M5. I can understand that people who do a lot of video prefer the FAS, but the PEN-F is mostly aimed at still photo shooters and the tilt screen is very quick to deploy for waist level shots. It doesn't stick out the side, interfere with your hand while holding at the waist, doesn't get tangled in the neck strap, and doesn't get knocked by people around you. I almost got my PEN-F FAS damaged when I had it out to take an overhead shot in a jostling crowd. A guy next to me slammed his elbow into it. Fortunately I was able at that moment to quickly twist the camera away slightly so it didn't get the full impact. If it had it may have broken the FAS off. I really dislike an FAS on this sort of camera. Keep it for the E-M1 line. Maybe even keep it for the E-M5II and follow ons. I bought the E-M10II rather than the E-M5II mostly because it had a tilt screen rather than the E-M5II FAS.

Note that the Panasonic GX85 and GX9 which are aimed more as still photos cameras have a tilt screen. Other Panasonic bodies have the FAS. Olympus, IMO, made a mistake with the PEN-F.