What's up with the g100 specs?

JakeJY wrote:

AlmostDoctor wrote:

b00mer wrote:

This camera was almost exactly what I was hoping Panasonic was going to create. Coming from a g85 this was going to be more my speed. Smaller, lighter, compact, updated. I skipped the g7 because I thought IBIS was a killer feature, but after much personal use I find it barely affects my photography and rarely is strong enough to provide better video experience. I'm just not sold on it, personally.

Yet this latest rendition is simply a half-attempt from them. Where is proper shutter speed, quality 1080 slow-mo, uncropped 4k? I would have flipped right over to this instead of moving to a larger and higher level camera.

I really don't understand why so many market essentials were held back. I feel like Panasonic simply gave up and threw in the towel on this. It's almost silly because now we see markets for compact full frame, fixed lens full frame all in the name of convenience while keeping up with substance. This camera is such a disappointment when it seems it could have easily been something more. Sorry for the rant...

I think Panasonic IBIS is not killer enough to be a feature. Olympus IBIS on the otherhand makes all the difference with usable multi-second handheld images and smooth gimbal-free video footage, imo.

Maybe that's true of the GX and lower end bodies, but Dual IS 2 on the GH5 is pretty much just as good as Olympus for video as far as I can see. Supposedly G9 is even better. Certainly trounces most of the competition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWEI_hLZAyE

I like the design of G100, but I agree the features are half-baked at best. If it were smaller and rangefinder style, I would consider it as an upgrade to my GM1...but the body is too close in size to EM5III and far more crippled for it to be worthwhile.

Dual IS can get close, but it doesn't work with any of the primes or ultrawide zoom (Lumix 7-14mm) since they have no OIS. I also doubt that even with dual IS 2, you could get acceptably sharp multisecond handheld images on Panasonic bodies (unfortunately I can't test this anymore since I don't have any dual IS setup anymore.)

For video, I think it's pretty much comparable with dual IS.