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Panasonic G85 - 2 questions

Started Dec 18, 2019 | Questions thread
b00mer Forum Member • Posts: 84
Re: Panasonic G85 - 2 questions
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The weather sealing is fine in my opinion, I've taken it out in snowing, cold, misty wet, and light rain plenty of times-- though never a big down pour. Just make sure your lens is also weather sealed, that would likely be the first thing to go. I don't really trust the mic port being exposed when using an external mic, but no problems as of yet. I did notice in the very cold, sub freezing the camera can tend to malfunction a bit with adapted lenses at long focal lengths-- I think this was mostly due to IBIS.

The video autofocus is terrible. Made worse in 4k. Made considerably worse in any sort of dim light, regardless of resolution. It's often very unreliable for me in general, tons of hunting. Even when it has a good lock it decides to hunt randomly. In my opinion G85 focusing system is its biggest let down, both in stills and video but especially video.

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Panasonic G85 Sony a7R II Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 40-150mm F4-5.6 R Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 15mm F1.7 ASPH +3 more
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