Olympus is doing a great branding job.

GodSpeaks wrote:

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.

Rather it was the GX8 naming that was a mistake - it was a walk on the wild side after the GX7 and the GX80/85 should have been the GX8 except that the GX8 slot had already been claimed.

The GX9 was only the original naming cycle being re-instated.

The “GX8” should have been named  something else - perhaps “OOAK” (One of a kind?) - or if a “G” is essential “GOOAK”.  But it didn’t sell well and the GX8 owners will have to come to realise the same thing that the GeM owners have done - that the GOOAK models are just that.