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Good cheap second to my g85

Started Dec 16, 2020 | Discussions thread
OP Isonychia New Member • Posts: 4
Re: Good cheap second to my g85

I thought of getting the em1.2 as well just for birds in flight but got scared away from using my pana 100-400 on it because of some of them having fit issues. I am still pondering it though. I have been looking keh/mpb for used mostly, I'm in a very rural area with limited craigslist, etc. In regards to whether I need a backup camera the answer is yes for a multitude of reasons. I do a lot of backcountry hunting and film these, sometimes things happen that we don't want to happen, but I still want the option of recording the memory if I am thousands of miles from home and brick the main camera. Also, I want something my wife can shoot along side of me and something we can swap around for different shots without switching lenses a million times a day between the standard primes, zooms and telephotos, it gets to be annoying.

The em1.2 is now on my radar again. It might make a better second to the gh5 which I plan to get at the end of next year, then I can sell the g85 if i like the olympus better for birds in flight. It also has weather resistance and the much desired microphone input that the gx7 and gx85 do not have. The sensor isn't a panasonic 16mb either so starry skies should be better. I'm pretty sure it still has the 30 minute video length cutoff though which is a bummer for self filming hunts.

Funny when I thought I would go to college for photography everything was just switching from film and I couldn't afford too much, now that I am getting back into it this m43 crowd seems to be fitting my needs like a glove for backcountry photography and I want to try so many things out that aren't Canon, even though I was a Canon die-hard.

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