I had my hopes up for a small body with great autofocus but alas. At this point an upgraded G95 with PDAF is all I’m hoping for. A G200 or Gx100 would do. Anything but a big body, Panasonic, if you could be so kind.
It does have great auto focus - just like Panasonic's cdaf S-AF has always been excellent.
It is C-AF that has had the wobble that many seem to go insane from under its effect. As I can manage without C-AF and I don't do video I am not in a position to barrack for or against pdaf.
In any case we can now get pdaf if we shell out for a G9II - the Panasonic system has listened and there is premium price pdaf to be had.
For all the ranting about the G100 as small and potentially pdaf-able I am not sure that the wooly customer base of Panasonic camera bodies is quite ready to pay G9II prices for a G100-size camera body - even with pdaf, IBIS and the 25mp sensor.
The camera industry follows trends and the trends say that premium prices equate to a certain size body equipped with the works. And that means OM-1 or G9/G9II size. Or maybe a S5II/x?
How about G100 size and weight with IBIS and PDAF at less than OM1 prices?
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Might work, but I am not into multiple bodies of the same thing at OM-1 prices - the G100 was being sold a month or so ago in Oz brand new for AUD$500 and as new second hand kits with grip could be had for about AUD$400 with patience.
This is roughly US$250-320 and beats the price of both OM-1 and G9 as well as being more compact if you own more than one.
Lots of them for sale brand new in the US for equivalent prices but of course freight rates are stupid and we pay 10% GST on both purchase price and freight which brings them up to more than recommended retail prices here for the kit.
Frankly the G100 is a very much grab it as the first camera to hand going out the door - fun to use and quite effective in its images.
The G9II, if you can find one, is AUD$3600+ (best) in Oz - so you can get a lot of G100's for the same price and just as much fun from each.
I think we can get far too hung up on the issues of what a camera body does not have and forget about its cost and the fact that it takes great photographs and is also very addictive to use.
I bought up my collection of GM bodies , firstly the GM1 and then the GM5 when they were being sold at very reasonable prices because they were being dismissed as pocket cameras and the market completely missed the fact that they were really very capable systems cameras made small and only left out the 'frills' to make them that size. Imaging capability was not really seriously compromised between the other M4/3 cameras of their day.
I guessed, for once guessed correctly, Panasonic gave up on the idea and the little wonders have become classics. I see the G100 as a similar cheap thrills camera that the market has thumbs down because it does not have the fashionable IBIS.
More surprised that they even consider a G100D but they might be struggling to market an entry level cheap camera in the M4/3 mount. Not everyone is up for the price of a G9II. "Just one" of course.
. Yes, I sincerely hope that this is the case. Being from the S5 sure sounds promising, I just hope that the lens they put in front of it is decent so it doesn't have the blur/distortion on the current G100.
