Pany G7 vs G85 vs G9

Although this is a very old 2017 thread, but it seems that a new topic is going on...

NZ Scott wrote:

mentos77 wrote:

Haven't tried the other two yet, but they don't interest me. I will probably next get a video camera instead of the G9. The G7 being so good is why I have never wanted to upgrade. The wife has a GX85 which has that better quality sharpness, but the G7 is so good ergonomically that we are going to keep the G7 and a GM5 and sell the newest bestest GX85.

Color doesn't seem to be mentioned much around here. For me there was a problem with Panasonics colors until the G7 came out. I am sure it has improved since, but the G7 fixed the main issues with color that the GH4 and GM5 have. Mainly reds and greens.

Agree with this, but for me it was the .JPG blues that were terrible.

I can't agreed with you on this.

First, unless we are controlled by our tool, a camera is no more than a tool. IMHO what we get indeed is highly related to how we set up the shot. We can set it cooler, warmer, higher exposure, lower exposure etc all could deliver very different result. The talks of this color, that color science etc puzzled me since if we should control our camera, not our camera controls us... It is more truth for the very customizable camera of today.

The following 2 recent SOOC snapshots, which are very close to the actual scene, should have a blue sky looking not too bad? The down side is we can't reproduce every many different green colors there...

Another recent SOOC jpg, which could be difficult because of various red colors there under diversified lighting condition. Believe me, the shots had reproduced the color quite correctly.

This was on a Panasonic pocket camera that I carried in South America quite a few years ago.

My Panasonic GM5 doesn't have the best colours either, but they can be tweaked in Photoshop.

My old Olympus E-P3 had great colours.

It's strange that people spend so much time pixel-peeping in the corners at 100% without sparing a thought for the way a camera renders the colours in an image. The latter is much more important for how a photo looks.

I care it a lot too. Therefore I always override the center metering exposure suggestion of my cameras.

Upon the image in my mind, through the Live View I set up the shot for an output I want. I hate my camera to dictate the output. I just need its AF capability (speed and accuracy) and Live View (of course more close to the shot to be taken could save my time to learn it. Yes, Live View has to be learnt since it is not perfect yet), nothing more.

I believe only when I can break away from the default of my camera, the output can be my output. If they are no good (or the color is no good), just because I am not good enough. Nothing  to do with my tool.

S

The G7 is ultra light