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Lumix GX800

Started Jun 16, 2020 | Discussions thread
shmelej
shmelej Forum Member • Posts: 60
Re: Lumix GX800

The GX800 (or GX850 or GX880, etc...) is very near to GM1. The only very significant change is the flippy screen that add few mm and 60 grams to the weight.

If you follow the forum, you will see that the GM1 is a well beloved camera. The GX800 is almost identical.

Morever, it seems that the JPG quality is better. I cannot retrieve the link just now but there are tests that show it as the best 16Mbytes sensor available, with a very good dynamic.

I use a lot the GM5 wich is a kind of jewel but my wife bought a GX800 and I have been wondered by the quality of its jpg images.

You may use the GX800 as a pocket camera (big pocket), using then the Panasonic 12-32. You can improve your photos by using the 12-60 3.5-5.6 instead, that is significantly better while remaining cheap. You can make very nice macro pictures using the Panasonic 30mm macro, that is also quite cheap with very high sharpness.

Always remaining a small system, you may access to pretty good telephoto by using the Panasonic 45-175.

Of course, you can also use any other lens, as the 100-400 or even the Olympus 300mm, but it is out of the philosophy of this tiny body, made to remain the core of a tiny system.

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Pierre Rasmont
Lab of Zoology, University of Mons, Belgium

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