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G5X mark II owners - share your thoughts

Started Aug 19, 2019 | Discussions thread
OP maflynn Senior Member • Posts: 2,134
Re: G5X mark II owners - share your thoughts

spencerda wrote:

maflynn wrote:

For those who own the camera, what are your thoughts
What do you like what do you not like
What made you choose this over a competitor such as the RX100

I have the RX 100 Mark two with the (at the time ) very expensive EVF added on.

Image quality was fine but I never warmed up to the camera itself did not like the interface and the silent sluggish control ring around the lens drove me crazy .

Seems like many of those negatives still exist in the latest versions of the Sony .

This may be unfair to the RX100 and its fans, but I'm not meaning it to be. The one thing that I seem find regarding the RX100 is it produces great images, it packs a ton of features into a tiny body but its not a fun camera to use.  I'd rather have something that I enjoy and allows me to adjust the the settings fairly easily.

I'm all but decided on the G5X II, it checks off more of the boxes that I have, and the price is easier to justify, though 900 dollars is still a lot of money.

Yesterday with the new mirrorless ILCs being announced by Sony and Canon, I had a pang of temptation because the bodies are not terribly larger BUT add on a lens, and its back to where I am today.  I find myself in situations where a mirrorless is too large and the iPhone is just not powerful enough

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