Upgrading to a Lumix G9 in 2020?

SteveY80 wrote:

MrALLCAPS wrote:

rashid7 wrote:

MiniMadRyan wrote:

Thanks all for all the replies. I took the plunge and ordered a G9 last night. Looking at various other options, the Z6, D500, D780, and even a Canon RP and Sony A7 III, I kept coming back to the G9. I think it will end up being a great addition to my Nikon kit, and help me love M43 even more.

Cheers

Ryan

"Beauty is as Beauty does!"

it may not be the most sexy body, but it is a lovable, tactile delight. UI could not possibly be better. The EVF puts it over-the-top, and even in IBIS and CAF, it virtually matches the EM1ii. Superb menu & touch screen. Customizable to the max.

Pure LOVE; intangibles elevate it above the APSC crowd. The Fuji XT4 maybe more beautiful, but all those analog dials are actually not the best for ergo and quickness

Completely Disagree.

Fuji cameras are much quicker to function. Even off, you know where most of your settings are. Apeture is on the lens, which I'm usually holding and quick to adjust. That you can also see when the camera is off or sleeping.

For me the big downside of Fuji's dedicated dials is that they don't allow the use of saved custom modes.

I love being able to switch from e.g. shooting active wildlife with fast shutter speed and wide aperture, to macro with the shutter set to flash sync and the aperture stopped down, simply by turning one dial. I keep a custom setting for general photography too, so I can switch to that for a quick snap, then flip back to my previous mode and immediately go back to what I was doing.

I actually quite like Fuji cameras in a lot of ways, and sometimes still use my old X-T10 for street and landscape shooting, but for my personal preferences and needs I find their control system pretty slow to use.

Before going the M43 route, I had demoed the XT-2 & XT-3 quite extensively. I liked the layout, and the dials as well. I'm a fan of "there can never be too many buttons". For me though, the lack of a sizeable grip made it feel a bit weird for me. I'm used to holding my cameras a certain way, and expecting things to be in certain spots (which the G9 comes close to matching on my Nikon kit too).

I think I was just as fast with the Fuji as I was any other camera once I was familiar with the layout, I just never felt I had as secure a grip on it as I did with other bodies.