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Olympus is doing a great branding job.

Started Jul 16, 2019 | Discussions thread
GodSpeaks
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Re: Agree Completely....even as a Panasonic FanBBB myself

VideoPic wrote:

Great example as you wrote the GX8. It suffered after reviewers nailed it for having shutter shock, and still became a well respected great camera to those who think and ignore negative press. The shocker was the GX9. Instead of following the GX8 winning character Panasonic forced the GX9 down to the boring GX80 (hope that is the right name). I tried one of these and sold it in 2 weeks, the most uncomfortable camera...bla bla

Point is the GX9 filled a new space not copying any of the GX8 appeal attributes....

Have to strongly disagree with calling the GX85/80 a "boring" camera.  To me, the GX85 is one of my most favorite cameras EVER.

As for the GX9, yeah, Panasonic totally blew the naming of that one.  It should have been the GX90 or 95.  I think I read somewhere that in Japan it is known as the GX85 Mark II, which is in fact, what it is.

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