Giving up on Panasonic gx7... I think.

robmarshall77 wrote:

As stated at the beginning of this thread, I'm giving up on this on camera. I say "I think" cos I won't sell it just yet but I never really got on with it. The real testament to this is that I never found myself taking out and using it. It feels awkward and unbalanced in the hand imo, not really super carry around like a great compact, nor reassuring like a dSLR but lost in between. The menus are complicated and I always found myself having to remember how to change settings, also there are so many of them, something that I thought when I first got the camera would be great.

The photos I did take with it were always a bit *meh*, and I'm sure this is more about me a photographer than the camera, but I never found myself wanting to get better with it. I've got the f1.7 prime (cheap version) and even with this things didn't really improve, images just looked flat (admittedly jpegs, I don't really have the patience for post processing and raw) so maybe this more of my bad!

You don't need post processing or RAWs to adjust the JPEGs. You can give your images more pop in the Photo Style settings, for example by setting Vivid (see page 130 in advanced manual). You can adjust contrast, sharpness, saturation, and NR in the same settings. There's also the Highlight Shadow, i.Dynamic, i.Resolution you can play around with.

ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/camera/om/dmc-gx7_en_adv_om.pdf

Anyway, what have I changed to? Well, I've just bought a used (but mint) Canon g7xii. A strange downward move perhaps, but I'm hoping to get out and take more photos and recreate the buzz I got from using my old s90, which I loved using and gave me great results as and inconspicuous little travel cam and lovely Canon colors. I've read good things about the g7xii so I'm quite excited. What do you all think, am I giving up on m43 too easily?

If you enjoy that camera more and are bringing it out more, there is nothing wrong with that.