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GX9 or EM5III?

Started Feb 2, 2020 | Discussions thread
Max5150 Senior Member • Posts: 1,055
Re: GX9 or EM5III?
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Circling back here even though I replied earlier in this thread. I had the GX9 for a while and have had the EM5.3 since November.

If you have not used an Olympus camera before, I'd borrow or rent for a weekend and take a few hundred shots to get to know the menu and controls. I have yet to meet a camera menu system I couldn't adapt to, but the Olympus setup is different and might take some getting used to. I'm not saying it's overly complex, just different. Secondly, I'd like to have a bit more of a protruding grip on it. Olympus obviously wanted to keep the camera svelt without losing usability, but I'd personally like a bit more grip. The need for a grip on my GX9 was even more pronounced as far as I'm concerned. I found a decent one on ebay that was on the camera all the time.

Other than that, from a performance standpoint, you'll need to get any camera dialed in to your preferences, but once I achieved that, I find the EM5.3 a fantastic compact camera. With a small prime lens, a small uwa zoom, or a small wide/short tele zoom it's a really nice piece of kit. I think it's a camera I will be happy with for a while - at least through a couple model generations

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