Mark Thornton

Shots of the moon may gain from better atmospheric conditions - less heat haze at night ;-)

Not that it will make much difference to me. I will probably stick with my GX9 for some time. I don't upgrade often - the GX9 followed the GX1 which replaced the Olympus e500. There are perhaps ...

I find that the phone app works well enough for my needs.

For 4K video on the G95 and GX9 the extra pixels give no value at all, in fact make things worse by increasing the crop factor. The GH5 and G9 are different as they use the full width of the ...

I suspect the the basic sensor is identical but adjacent processing is changed to increase bandwidth. I should have said that I was comparing the GX9 with G9.

As far as I can tell the main advantage of the G9 sensor is with video - 4K without a crop, and 6K vs 4K photo. For regular stills quality seems all but identical. Mark

> irony of this is that I acquired my love of photography from my father. As did I. Sadly he now has dementia and has lost the interest. All his cameras are packed away somewhere.

None of my children have shown any interest in photography beyond what their phone can do. Mark

It is a pity it had to be bigger than the GX1, but I understand that. I don't really have anything to complain about. Perhaps the 4K crop, but I don't really use 4K much. I mostly use HD for video ...

Panasonic PZ 14-42 pancake zoom. It came with my GX1 which was my first m4/3 body. Still useful with the GX9 when I want a compact zoom.

Or all of those ;-)

As I understand it, the original intent of this option was to move the lens to its minimum physical size focus position when turning off - convenient for putting back in your bag. Not relevant for ...

I do have cameras on my laptop and phone, but they don't cope well with the glare from my bald patch. My GX9 produces a much more satisfactory image (and gives much more control). I just can't yet ...

Not sure if the cheap adapters will work with my Panasonic GX9.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/4796043082/canon-s-new-software-will-turn-select-eos-powershot-cameras-into-webcams-for-windows-pcs Will Olympus or Panasonic take notice? I know there are somewhat ...

Some price difference is justified, but I rather doubt quite that big a difference is. The closest focus on the 45 is a bit long for my taste. While fine for people shots, it can be a bit annoying ...

Before going to the ultra wide options suggested above, you might consider a 'kit' lens that starts at 12mm instead of 14mm. There are three budget options: Panasonic 12-32 f3.5/5.6 Panasonic 12-60 ...

And yet I find the DOF with 1.7 to already be narrow enough for a party. Now if I could have f1.2 with the dof of f1.8 ... sadly physics doesn't allow this. Mark

That was also a time when ceilings were almost always white. I've encountered a few places where there was no reasonable surface from which to bounce. Mark

That logic only works because we are sufficiently far from the origin that most don't care that there was no year zero, and hence the very first decade AD can't have started with 0. The year ...