Panasonic GX10 (rumoured, FT4)

jeffharris wrote:

Gnine wrote:

jeffharris wrote:

Ruairi wrote:

Trolleyman wrote:

Gnine wrote:

Too late for me. I abandoned the GX when Panasonic watered down the GX8 to satisfy all the whiners. It will take a monumental jump in tech to pry my G9 from my hands. I don’t see that happening with the GX10.

GX and G9 are aimed at a different market, not even remotely similar.

That may be true for the GX80 and GX800, but the GX8 had a fair amount of overlap with the G9.

How? While the GX8 isn’t the smallest camera in the M4/3 universe, the G9 is a bloated thing. The grip is downright uncomfortable.

If Panasonic keep a 3 tier GX line, more of us will be happy.

Now that's a first. Never ever heard of anyone saying the G9 grip is uncomfortable. Do you have odd shaped hands or something? None of my cameras have any type of strap. I wander round car shows for hours at a time simply holding them. The G9 for me, is hand down more comfortable than my GX8, & exponentially more comfortable than my EOS M. The only other thing that came closer was my old 6D with 40 pancake. Oh, & I have pretty average sized hands, according to my glove sizing.

I have quite large hands, actually. Size 10 gloves.

I was a stone carver, wood carver and carpenter. I KNOW tools. I know how they work. I know how they should feel in the hand. If you'd ever used a hammer, mallet or screwgun / drill for 8 + hours a day, you'd know, too.

If you can't close your hand over a tool, like most of the grips of today's cameras where your hand is extended open and not in a comfortable closed position, then your hand will be in constant tension. BAD BAD BAD.

Without getting into an ePeen measuring competition, I actually do know what a good, well designed hand tool feels like. I've actually spent the last 35 odd years in the steel fabrication game, still currently in the game now, and know my way around drills, angle grinders, spanners, hammers large & small, welders, impact drivers and so on and so forth. The G9 for me, rates as one of the nicest designed & feeling tools I've ever used.

Like they say, a picture's worth a thousand words, so I'll throw one in. The G9 simply nestles into the palm of your hand, fitting the natural curvature of a relaxed hand/fingers. My finger tips rest lightly on the 2 front face function buttons, thumb on either the thumb rest or joystick. Su

blime. The grip is just tall enough for 3 fingers to comfortably fit onto. A touch taller would probably be a little better if I was to get really picky. Even with slightly more chunky lenses as the pictured PL 8-18, single handed shooting is a pleasure.

My GX8 on the other hand, you have to sort of pinch it between your thumb & fingertips, as the grip isn't quite deep or full enough for it to snug into your palm & simply rest there. Enough talk