Great, but not very reliable

AdamT wrote:

I hammered mine and the only thing I got was the fatal dust in the sensor stack needing a new sensor (thanfully under warranty) this has killed too many GX7s, GM1s and GM5s , thankfully they fixed the poor sealing of the stack with the next gen sensor . Pan ought to have done a recall but they didn`t ............ the biggest issue for me was shutter shock, it was horrendous with the 14-140-II , Worse than the GX8 and almost as bad as the GX1 - the prob is that unlike the GX8, the GX7 drops to 10-bit mode in E-Shutter and has a very slow scan meaning poor DR and bendy moving images ..

Jeffharris is correct. E-shutter if GX7 is 12 bits. It is lowered to 10 bits on GX85.

amazing thing is that I actually liked the camera despite all that - it has better ergonomics and a far better grip than the GX80/90 and the EVF maybe poor but it was better than nothing .. The GX8 is superb but its an E-Shutter only camera with a few but most useful lenses , as I said thankfully there`s no loss in image quality and the scan speed is batter but its a bigger camera ........

the GX80 has no shock issues and a better sensor than the GX7,

They share the same 16Mp Panny sensor. Only difference is the sensor of GX85 has the AA filter removed for a sharper SOOC jpg output and it is on a 5-axis floating design.

IBIS is better too but basically no grip to speak of so button crunchy when picking up or using with longer lenses, for some silly reason it doesn`t have the D-Pad disable option like the GX8 which would fix that

One more thing, 14~140 f/3.5-5.6 still suffers shutter shock on the new m-shutter of GX85. E-shutter is still the best shutter option for this lens.

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