What's up with the g100 specs?

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...

1st, the Panny current line up been quite updated already (GF9/10 for beginner or P&S shooters, GX9 for more advanced shooters who prefer a smaller format, G95 for advanced shooters who need better ergonomic, G9 as still flagship and GH5 as hybrid king etc all are 20Mp model). Any new models that could convince shooters to buy must have more substantial, instead of incremental, upgrade.

Under the fierce market competition from phone camera, the current global economy hit by the Covid 19 making resource should be spent wisely for the corporation to sail through this difficult time. Keep on spending R&D for an uncertain market is not advisable.

G100, if under a closer look at it, is a frankenstein model built on GF9/10, put on a large evf, add more built in mics and a Nokia(?) audio system. Market it as a vlogging centric model to try its next principal market: video, at a min cost.

Now we have a new Panny, for a new vlogging market, ask for a big money (cost more than GF9/10), at a min cost for its development.

Might not be the most clever way, but likely the safest movement. Indeed JIP had also hinted that video could be its next major eye of development. Panny may not be the only one looking for a new market to survive.

As per my very early thinking about this model, if Panny will receive good market response on G100 at its premium price, I expect a GX95-Vlogging, a G95-Vlogging could be rolled out to capture the higher end maret of this sector.

I just can't understand why Panny did not roll out a GX95-vlogging with full IBIS/DUAL IS, nearly unlimited 4K recording restriction having full range feature spec but use the lowest spec model to test the water... 🤔