I waited and wasted far too much time for Canon to produce a decent range of small fast primes for the M system. 5 years later and they're still not there.
And this is why I mostly keep the rear screen closed.... No problem as I use the EVF 99% of the time anyway.
-1. The GX9 does not suck.
Isn't the Far Eastern camera industry a service industry with a duty to give armchair designers on the other side of the planet all they want at minimum cost and profit no object?
I never use the screen to take photos, but I like to use it when I change settings and to specify the focus point - which is quite often. No issues with my great humpy G9 in this respect, but it is an annoyance when I use the GX85 to open and close the screen.
I agree wholeheartedly with this post. Sony continues to invest in its bodies and bringing tech forwared. The PEN F is the nicest camera I've ever owned, but weather sealed, PDAF, and new tech like 4k uncropped would compel me to upgrade.Agreed, the Pen-F aesthetics are pretty much perfect. They don't need to go messing it up with a drastic change like making bigger or plastic. Just update the specs to 2020 standards.Yeah, a Pen F 2 would be great. As long as it doesn't look and feel like it came out of a bubblegum machine like the E-M5iii.
Look at where the A6000 started and where A6600 is now. They packed all that tech into such a small package while maintaining the same shape as the original. It can be done.
The same with the GX9. The size and shape are good, just update the specs. You guys are getting left in the dust!
It had to look like a "serious" camera, and what the great unwashed see as a "serious" camera looks like an SLR style.
Yes, that is gone.
The brick style camera does sell, but in certain markets to certain buyers. The Pen Lite line is aimed at Asian women buyers and that's where it is still selling well enough that we can safely predict an E-PL11. The trick seems to be that some would like a "more serious" camera than a phone but don't want to muss up makeup so it must be screen use only, hence the success of the Pen Lite still continues but further down the BCN lists lately.
No really significant improvements in cameras in the last say 5 years, they got "good enough" for most folks some time back, and now of course smartphones have also climbed the "good enough" ladder to kick the cameras off.
They call that M4/3, but generally that has swollen in size.
Oh boy...
You’re missing my point WhiteBeard. In theory, the camera could now have any form factor. For example, a design like a telescope or binoculars, or something totally different.
A wireless headup glasses display will inevitably happen one day. I am 100% sure about that. But I think it will complement, not replace the EVF. In plain sunlight headup glasses are useless. And if designed like fully enclosed FPV goggles too dangerous.
Actually a phone is all display so this wouldnt be so relevant there.
I'll go as far as saying that present-day DSLR / rangefinder form factors hark from the 35mm film days when you needed a certain shape to serve the film's physical progress. It was however also optimized over the last century for best hand-holding and compactness. If you have a better idea for the ideal camera design, please share...
With Panasonic and their interesting naming criteria you never know if the next number in a sequence such as going from GX8 to GX9 .Is an update of the previous model or an entirely different market segment , I would happily pay good money for a real GX8 update with the latest IBIS etc
This rumor is only tagged as FT4 (rumor from known sources) and contains no relevant picture nor info other that the GX10 will have a Mic input.
They have to go with GX10, since they already used G10 a long time ago.
It's a marketing technique. Instead of appealing to one market, such as upgraders, Panasonic tries to appeal to two markets (double the sales?):
