Panasonic GX7 + 12-32mm, 20mm

P Harg wrote:

Isola Verde wrote:

P Harg wrote:

Isola Verde wrote:

The GX80 / 85 didn't work out too well for my left-handed, left-eyed, needs - so I eventually tried the GX7, which was pretty near perfect... so much so in fact that, just before lockdown, I bought myself a new GX9, for its various extra features.

Very nice camera, however I still much prefer the handling and general experience of shooting with that GX7.

I'm quite surprised that seven years have now passed since its announcement, for almost all of which I didn't think to try it!

Peter

PS - Thanks for the various tips, as well as for your pictures!

Hi

Just wondering why you find the GX7 and GX9 better for you if you are left eye dominant (like me)?

Cheers

Whenever I can, I like to use those cameras with their EVF tilted slightly upwards - which then keeps my nose clear of the rear screen... rather than pressed up against it, as happens with a fixed EVF, such as the one on the GX80/85.

Peter

Yes, I can see the EVF tilt would help you, but that's also true for right eye dominant people.

But they don't HAVE to tilt for any degree of comfort at all - try it right-eyed for yourself.

I can't get used to the RF type cameras and I'm much more comfortable with the old style EVF position in the middle. If they ever make a RF with the EVF on the right I may change my mind!

Almost forty years since my first film SLR, and I'm happy to be free of the optical pentaprism - and don't much miss the extra size and bulk of its electronic replacement of my old Lumix G3 and Oly E-M10 II.

But do I have another M43 suggestion for those of left-eyed, left handed persuasion - one that perhaps reached its most refined in the Olympus Pen E-PL8, when coupled with their VF-4 addon EVF.

That device also tilts, however it isn't required to do so in allowing we afflicted to enjoy something the right-eyed can often benefit from.. being able to hold the camera to one eye, and then look at the scene directly by simply changing view from one eye to the "other".

[Sadly, the more recent Pen models can't use the VF-4, which was itself discontinued some while ago!]

There's a photo of the combination about half-way thru' the PL8 review here...
https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/olympus-e-pl8/olympus-e-pl8A.HTM

I can only encourage you find one and try it for yourself - to experience what all those lucky right-eyed rangefinder users are enjoying all the time!

Peter