Just bought a G85 a few months ago, and couldn't be happier!!

alcelc wrote:

wiryawan wrote:

Jozef M wrote:

That G85 has a pretty lousy useless auto-iso, I think the G90 does this much better, like my G9, I think.

If you have a good auto-iso, that makes photography so much easier ...

For the rest, that G85 is good.

Jozef.

That's very interesting to know, thanks for sharing the information about auto-ISO. I never had problem with auto-ISO before, maybe I haven't really encountered a scene that makes me think of that, but maybe I'll keep an eye about the G85 auto ISO for future shots. Thanks!

I suppose Josef was talking about the implementation of Auto ISO under M mode. Most older generations of cameras of Panasonic adopted an interesting methodlogy, manual is manual. Therefore in older models M used Manual ISO only.

Later on, under demands from users, Auto ISO was supported in M mode. Sadly no Exposure Compensation be allowed, hence making the M + Auto ISO becomes another full automatic shooting mode similar to P, and shooter cannot override the exposure as set by the camera. M of GX85 allows auto ISO but I never use it because no EC support. EC is only added for latest models (GX9, G95, G9 etc?).

I used to the conventional operation of Panasonic, hence auto ISO in M or not means nothing to me.

Yes, correct.

I use auto-iso in A mode + I set the min iso on iso 100, max iso on iso 6400, and set f at f1.8, the shutter speed at 1/100 sec. All these settings I do just once and save it all under C1 mode. You need of course a fast prime lens to do so.
So, when I enter a museum, or café or restaurant, or a gig, I set my camera on C1 and snap away, no more thinking of camera settings, the camera works for you ...

This doesn't work in the G85, and that is a shame ...

Jozef