On 4/19/2015 5:04 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
I've never even looked at a GX7 until just now on DPReview. What I
see there that interests me is the tiltable EVF and its placement to
the left (good for a left-eyed shooter) to avoid covering the even
better placed AF lock button.
I guess you wouldn't be really interested. I'll be selling my GX7. Not
because of any particular shortcomings. Just a matter of making life
easier. A couple of years ago, I started carrying two cameras when
really out shooting, thus vastly reducing the time and hassle of
switching lenses all the time or missing shots.
I first tried it with E-M5 and E-PM2, which worked well enough that I've
used that approach since. With 12-50 on one and 75-300 on the other, I
had only a few switches to 60/2.8 macro or 9-18. (Hmmm, E-PM2 in the
bag, with 9-18 already mounted ... how might that work? Can you tell how
much I dislike switching lenses in the field?)
I then switched to E-M5 and GX7, which has worked pretty well. The GX7
EFC gets rid of the slight delay and funny sound of the shutter shock
delay. The one drawback has been the different physical design (not the
EVF), logic and menus, so that operation in the field occasionally gets
confusing.
Now with the more capable E-M5 II, I'm trying the dream of having two
identical bodies, so that switching is transparent. Just pull up the one
with the focal range I want. So the E-M5 and GX7 will go on the block. I
feel a little bad about the GX7. I really like it, as a camera, but it
doesn't fit in anymore.
Moose