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Great, but not very reliable

Started Oct 1, 2020 | User reviews thread
eques Veteran Member • Posts: 4,115
Panasonic realy could do something about their dials!
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Leo "Zoom" wrote:

I own two of these from 2014 or 2015, both second hand. Both are dead now. And I'm bidding again on one - as it's dirty cheap now.

The good. 16 mpix is more than enough (I had 24 mpix full frame berofe). Camera is perfectly ballanced for street photo. S-AF focus is very fast and reliable, but C-AF not so good. It is heavily packed with features. And with f/1.7 primes it is very compact an fun to use. People are often complaining about the focus speed of Lumix 20mm f/1.7 - guys, put it on GX7. Very fast, very small - perfect everyday lens.

A beautiful combo with great results, but AF is not very fast.

FHD video is awesome - wish it had a mic input though.

Now the bad - although I don't use them heavily (can't check now, but the shutter count is somewhere in the range of 20000-30000 on both - but I carry at least one everywhere), both rear dials failed, both SD slots failed.

As told before similar experience with 3 rear dials in 2 bodies.

None of the other problems yet, though I take out the SD cards quite often.

Worse, exposure compensation dial on the GX8 starts to fail as well.

OTOH my Ricoh GR is unusable because of the sticky aperture issue after 35k shutter actuations, so reliability is not only a Panasonic problem. But they could try to do something about their dials!

Peter

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8 Panasonic Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH Olympus 12-100mm F4.0
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