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O 12-100 on a GX8 - not the best combination?

Started Sep 30, 2019 | Discussions thread
OP eques Veteran Member • Posts: 4,115
Re: GX8 12 bit color depth?

rz350 wrote:

I have this combo. I bought it for travel. I have found the GX8 and 12-100 to be an excellent combination and far lighter and more versatile than my Nikon equivalents.

Yes, of course, it is. That's why I don't have a Nikon.

Focus is fast and accurate. The lens is awesome. The camera body has a few flaws in that I inadvertently press a button that changes AWB or bracketing, etc. And there seems to be no way to lock out those buttons. The camera is configurable in an incredible number of ways, but those buttons are placed in such places that i am always accidentally pushing them and changing settings.

Yes, that happened to me as well. And not only with camera buttons, also with the lens, as explaint in my OP. And I am still sad because I missed 2 very nice shots, when I hurried to take the camera out of the bag and started shooting without noticing at first that the lens was set to MF. After 2 OOF pictures the situation had changed.

I have played with wildlife photography, but this camera is not quite there in that it will not lock onto a moving subject like my Nikon D500.

Yes, we agree: AFC is not quite there.

Peter

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8 Panasonic Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH Olympus 12-100mm F4.0
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