Finally some love for the GX8?

Yannis1976 wrote:

Hi,

I have been using the GX8 for the last 2,5 years after having upgraded from my favorite GX7. Despite my "love at 1st site" GX7 impression, I didn't like the GX8 from the very beginning, but the more I was using it the more I was getting impressed by it.

Nowadays I feel its the best, most balanced RF camera no matter the sensor and I am happily surprised that a lot of people are finally appreciating this camera!! I will not go into details about its advantages but I would summarize them briefly below:

• one of best EVFs
• great ergonomics with deep grip for an RF body, Panasonic UI and plenty of customizable buttons
• the best m43 sensor so far (don't think its any different than the GX9, G9, EM1 mk2, PenF) and a very good sensor overall
• great build quality and sealing
• very good, reliable and fast S-AF

IMHO, if it even had a tilt screen instead of a FAS, it would be the ultimate RF body!

Not sure if there will be a real GX8 successor, but the imaginary GX10 could have almost the same body, change to a tilt screen or even better an XT3 screen, add all the latest improvements from GX9/G9 (deal with SS, remove AA filter, latest JPEG engine, better IBIS), add manual SS controls (like Fuji or LX100) and combine it with a WR edition of either the 15mm/1.7 or 25mm/1.4.

Very good summary of this under-appreciated camera!  The icing on the cake for a GX10 as you suggested would agreeably be a rear screen similar to that of the XT3, which can satisfy both the tilty and the flippy screen capabilities.

I do recall that when the GX8 first came out there was a lot of complaining in this forum about it being too big.  I never felt that way about it, it felt good in my hands and I generally really liked it, and still admire it when I occasionally see one (local dealer, demos, stores in Japan).

I may not be able to resist any longer if such a “GX10” ever comes about, or if Olympus were to beat Panasonic with an updated WR Pen F which even more closely resembles their best film Pens (and has many of the features you mentioned about putting into a GX10).

With the rapidly changing and shrinking ILC market, and increasingly competitive new mirrorless ILCs in many formats being released, it will be interesting to see what both Olympus and Panasonic might do about this class of cameras.