DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

My New Toy but not Sigma

Started Jul 15, 2020 | Discussions thread
xpatUSA
OP xpatUSA Forum Pro • Posts: 23,016
Re: My New Toy but not Sigma

PT wrote:

xpatUSA wrote:

As I drift towards ease of use, I received this as-new yesterday:

Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 with Carl Zeiss Jena Flektagon

Bought mainly for my legacy lenses.

Pros:

IBIS, assisted manual focus, excellent OLED 120 fps EVF, Fully articulated LCD, top LCD w/ backlight, 5184x3888px images about the same as my DP2 when downsized 50%.

Con:

No flash - not that I use flash much - must dig out the Metz.

Plan being to use it for all general purposes and to keep just the SD15 configured for FS/IR.

Me too Ted, just got a Fujifilm X100V for roughly the same reasons. But it has leaf shutter with a small fill flash for HSS up to 1\2000th sec, a decent 35mm equivalent F2 lens with built in ND filter plus all the usual auto and manual focus options all in a small, light water resistant body that can do 4K video.

Sounds goods - I've read the DP review and it is indeed tempting. I went with the G9 partially because I already had µ4/3 lenses and an M42->µ4/3 adapter.

But the SDQH will be around for a while yet.

Quite so.

-- hide signature --

There are more ways than one to skin a cat ...
Seba Smith - The Money Diggers, 1840
Ted

 xpatUSA's gear list:xpatUSA's gear list
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 Sigma SD9 Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 Panasonic Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm F2.8 ASPH OIS Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM +11 more
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow