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G5X mark II owners - share your thoughts

Started Aug 19, 2019 | Discussions thread
RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,426
Re: G5X mark II owners - share your thoughts

PuzzleGal wrote:

PuzzleGal wrote:

...gives me nicer skies...

I wonder how much of that is because the polarizing filter I bought for this camera may be higher quality than the one I bought for the Sony, though.

It's the Canon colors (probably)... Although magical, at the same time not magic. I've looked at the RX100's ALOT over their history and almost bought one several times but the colors of online samples and handling in-store stop me every-time and cause me to reconsider.

A quality filter does make a big difference though over a cheap one, absolutely.

I'll be doing a deep dive on the IQ of the G5X II as that's one of the big questions in my book: after reviewing and even processing RAWs out there from the G5X II, it's close enough it could go either way for me; more samples are needed it's that close and hence I'm giving it a shot. Likewise, DIGIC8 should be a step forward over the DIGIC7 of the G1X III even though the G5X II lacks DPAF, the G1X III was a bit of a slug even with DPAF due to the sluggish processor (regarding autofocus).

Those are the biggies. Will single shot AF be good enough, and likewise will IQ be good enough? On the G1X III IQ certainly was stellar, but AF certainly wasn't (for my needs). Pocket-ability and reach were another hangup. G5X II solves those complaints of reach and pocket ability but potentially introduces enough reduction in IQ for me to blink. Single shot AF it just needs to "clear the bar", I don't expect it to compete with my M6 II or EOS R. I think it will on the latter but the former, the jury is out on... We'll see next week.

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PS, since you're not a post-processor, the G5X II is going to "beat" the RX100 (all of them) every time simply because SOOC JPEGs are better, by a long shot and you're a SOOC shooter. If you're post processing RAWs, it gets much closer. But the amount of effort needed to make a Sony render like a Canon in color, is very high (I've tried) and takes all the fun out of it and doesn't give the same results, even if you can get them closer through post processing in my experience.

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