I don't think my life will be complete until I see what that G100D OLED evf offers. I don't doubt for a minute that it must be a massive improvement. But for the moment the evf in the G100 is working well enough for this fellow.
Its a bit like: "How are we gonna keep him using his G100 down on the farm now that he has seen the G100D evf Paree".
What I don't know is obviously something I hardly miss.
It's the same EVF as the G90 (the version with the OLED EVF). So, if you happen upon one of those, you can get an idea of what it looks like vs the old G100 one.
-J
Glory be, I don't think I have seen a Panasonic M4/3 camera body alive and being used in this particular neck of the woods in any other hands but my own - ever. I do remember a proud young owner with a discounted EM-1x and a big zoom lens with a friend off looking for some birds to photograph.
The local dedicated bricks and mortars shop has a showcase for Olympus/OMS* gear but if you wanted something Panasonic then they surely could get one in.
* So presumably someone local must be buying some Olympus gear. But I have not particularly noticed.
When I buy Panasonic I have always bought sight unseen from on-line. Happening upon simply hasn't happened. But I have complete confidence to reference by your words.
We live in the real country** and the nearest Capital city conurbation is 300kms away where there no doubt Panasonic stockists would have set up shop. Meanwhile the gear is easily acquired and paid for locally via the web.
Ha, that's the same distance I am from NYC, and close to the same from Boston. Other than the local Best Buy (which doesn't have any M43 on display now), I'd have to go to either NY or Boston, myself, to try any of these in person, also. And, I definitely don't live in the middle of nowhere; I live right next to the capitol of NYS, and the regional (Capitol District) population is about 1.2 million.
** country area where life is sophisticated and we technically have all facilities (except Panasonic outlets) as oppose to "the bush", where they might have a pub and perhaps even a shop/post-office but otherwise could be 300kms from anywhere.
About an hour's drive north of here is definitely wilderness, as that's the southernmost border of the Adirondack Park, a 6 million acre preserve. New York is kind of a funny state; upstate is quite rural with pockets of substantial population, and downstate is comprised of NYC and suburbs, which are very densely populated. I live in a little suburban neighborhood one town over to the east of Troy, NY, which is a small, old, industrial city of modest population along the Hudson River. Going further east, the county I live in gets rural in a hurry, and then remains so until well over the borders into the next states to the east (Massachusetts and Vermont, and Connecticut to the south).
All the camera stores that used to be here (and there were several), went belly up after the Internet took over, about 15 years ago, so other than Best Buy, it's a camera desert up here if you want anything from anyone other than the big 3. I have poked around B&H on the rare occasions I am down in NYC (but that's not been in some years now), and it's very cool to be able to actually handle ALL the gear. But that's a rarity....
Australia is as large as continental US but as far as I know the entire population is less than that of California. Then to make matters worse - half of the population lives crowded into the capital cities.
Well, the NY metro region is kind of a pain in the butt also, so I do get it...
-J
