Will white colour body get dirty easily?

I picked up a white G3 last month. Still white. No yellowing after nearly 14 years from release.

I don't know about white E-P7 as I never had it. I like different coloured m4/3 cameras.

GutiWong said:

I am interested in the E-P7 white colour. I think it will be the last white colour m43 camera body.

Anyone has experience on white colour camera body. Will it get dirty easily? Will it turn yellow colour in long term?

Thanks

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With the opening caveat that none of my cameras have a particularly hard life - when I'm out and about, but not actually using them, they're carried in a softly-lined bag - and are fitted with wrist straps rather than those that hang from shoulder or neck...

My first white camera was an E-PL8, bought new in August 2019, followed by two white E-P7s (both "used", in 2022 and 2024) and even now I can see no marks on their various white "bits" - beyond maybe a few places on the P7s, around the buttons etc, where my grubby fingers have left the sort of slight traces that a damp cloth easily wipes away! [PL8 had a silver back panel, against which such things show up less]

Lettering and symbols on the white buttons of both P7s are still pristine.

Most definitely no yellowing of any of the white plastics they've used - not even now on the older PL8, whose serial number gives a manufacturing date in August 2017... coming up for 8 years ago.

By way of comparison, the silver top plate of the PL8 has a small scrape on it (presumably done by me) through which the next layer (a slightly darker grey) can be seen... and the first P7 has several tiny scratches near the flash (already present when it arrived) where again a slightly darker layer shows through.

If you'll have no other use for the hot shoe, I find this really improves the camera's handling!


Peter

GutiWong said:

I am interested in the E-P7 white colour. I think it will be the last white colour m43 camera body.

Anyone has experience on white colour camera body. Will it get dirty easily? Will it turn yellow colour in long term?

Thanks

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6 years ago I bought a well used, not working, white GM1 for parts. It is obviously beige not white. Even though Panasonic called it white. This camera was very well used when I got it, and it lives in a box in parts ever since. So you can get a feel how the color wears. I would say the leatherette definitely darkened, assuming when new leatherette and paint were nearly the same tone.



From the pictures of the EP7, it seems to be a much purer, brighter white. And the housing of the EP7 is painted silver, so should the leatherette darken nobody would notice.

Me personally, I would never buy a white camera. But I am a dirty fellow. Currently restoring my latest acquisition, a 50 year old Ferrari vinyard tractor. I often have - very - dirty hands. Its the nature of my hobbies and my rural lifestyle. A white camera I would either never use, or it would suffer.

If you are more the "office type" city person, you will be perfectly fine with a white camera.

Wash your hands.

Isola Verde said:

If you'll have no other use for the hot shoe, I find this really improves the camera's handling!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D86W060

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I use Fotodiox Type B with my E-PL7's. It's more comfortable with a wider thumb-grip.

cc99 said:

Isola Verde said:

If you'll have no other use for the hot shoe, I find this really improves the camera's handling!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D86W060

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I use Fotodiox Type B with my E-PL7's. It's more comfortable with a wider thumb-grip.

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That's what I've been using on my GX7 for a while now, but on trying it on the E-P7 what I found was that...

(a) it's a bit short, so my thumb obscures the top right corner of the screen

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(b) it extends further downwards, coming very close to top of screen when that's being tipped out.
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Oh, and...
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(c) here in the UK, I couldn't find a silver version to match my cameras' white/silver bodies.

Peter

cc99 said:

Isola Verde said:

If you'll have no other use for the hot shoe, I find this really improves the camera's handling!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D86W060

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I use Fotodiox Type B with my E-PL7's. It's more comfortable with a wider thumb-grip.

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I use the Fotodiox Type A thumb grip with my GX8. Used the Type B on my GX7, but it snapped off, so got a Type A to replace it.

jeffharris said:

Wash your hands.

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Yep, in Oz Solvol soap bars are back, that's the stuff to use.


I started my working life maintaining mechanical cash registers at NCR back in 1959, that work involved lots of oily, dirty fine mechanical work plus ink stains from the permanent inks used in the registers. Solvol was our friend, supplied by NCR luckily.

jeffharris said:

Wash your hands.

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That is what I thought when I bought a beautiful white leather office chair. Just wash hands everytime I sit on the computer. But what about those black oil and grease spots on my pants and shirt? Change everytime too? Trust me, it does not work after a few weeks. White is just not suitable for certain lifestyles.

There is a reason white is a favorite color of rich people - they can pay someone else to do the dirty work

I had one of these some years ago - little green thing with equal sized wheels. Had car type drum brakes and a handbrake that never could be kept in adjustment. Not a real issue except that the foot brakes fitted with the wrong cups didn't work either.

Loved it to death, but moved on to a Cararro with a bit more horsepower for 20+ years and later to a Valpadna with even more grunt. Love those equal sized wheel Italian Tractors - great for slopes. But a Yanmar 4-cylinder water cooled diesel is a whole lot less noisy than those air-cooled older Italian ones.

cba_melbourne said:

jeffharris said:

Wash your hands.

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That is what I thought when I bought a beautiful white leather office chair. Just wash hands everytime I sit on the computer. But what about those black oil and grease spots on my pants and shirt? Change everytime too? Trust me, it does not work after a few weeks. White is just not suitable for certain lifestyles.

There is a reason white is a favorite color of rich people - they can pay someone else to do the dirty work

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My mother bought white shag pile carpet when it was in fashion when her yard was made with also fashionable Victorian volcanic scoria. One can imagine the result. .... and hmmm ... call her a bit silly maybe, she certainly was not rich.

Tom Caldwell said:

I had one of these some years ago - little green thing with equal sized wheels. Had car type drum brakes and a handbrake that never could be kept in adjustment. Not a real issue except that the foot brakes fitted with the wrong cups didn't work either.

Loved it to death, but moved on to a Cararro with a bit more horsepower for 20+ years and later to a Valpadna with even more grunt. Love those equal sized wheel Italian Tractors - great for slopes. But a Yanmar 4-cylinder water cooled diesel is a whole lot less noisy than those air-cooled older Italian ones.

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Its a Ferrari 75-RS 4WD alpine tractor, low center of gravity. Yes air cooled Italian 27HP Lombardini diesel engine. Just 950 hours on it, but storage problems, last road rego 2001, not used since. Had to order master brake cylinder and wheel cylinders from Europe. Had to re-line the brake pads with rivets myself, make new brake lines.... etc etc. A project just for fun, and maybe good for my backhoe. Here a pic the day I got it:

I wonder if Panasonic are the only brand whose cameras come in dodgy shades of white?

This 12 year old Nikon P330 (photographed today, although very sadly no longer responding to its ON/OFF switch) was my first white one, bought at less than half launch price, probably in a clearance sale - still startlingly bright everywhere but the yellowing rubber cover for connecting to its external power unit...







Peter