The GX7 is certainly the wildcard. If the store carried Panasonics, I would
have tested it too. These were the three MIL bodies of interest that they
had in stock. Oh, other than the Leica sitting over in the BMW corner.
There are cameras that you pick up and you get a silly grin across your
face. It's something that people get when they see the IMAX viewfinder of
an OM, or the grip experience of the E-1, or feel the silkiness of the
focusing mechanism in a Leica lens, or the rightness of the Fujifilm X100S.
But all three cameras felt "logical" to the scientific brain, but did
absolutely nothing to get my hormones in an uproar.
Cameras like these are like Android phones. The über camera is only the
über camera until the next über camera comes out. There is a reason why I
hang on to my cameras so long--it's because I'm so picky about getting the
right one in the first place.
There is one thing I had been waiting on. I was waiting for the EVFs to
reach a certain threshold of resolution. All three of these cameras crossed
that threshold and really are good enough for me.
On Friday, December 27, 2013, Moose wrote:
> On 12/27/2013 1:54 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> > If you are suffering from loneliness, you are not alone. Yet, you are
> > alone, so very very alone. - Despair.com
> >
> > <Big snip>
> >
> > But, back to my original statement, I feel like all three cameras are
> > competent, but none of them grab me and just fall to hand like they
> > were made for me. The E-1 was certainly that way. The OM-2S is
> > certainly that way. These cameras remind me of my experience with my
> > Mamiya TLR. The camera took great pictures, but I never enjoyed using
> > it as it just didn't fit my hands and eyes right.
> >
> > YMMV, of course, and I am NOT speaking for Moose on this. However,
> > knowing what I know about Moose, I am very confident in saying that
> > Moose would absolutely love the EM1 based on what all he has said
> > about the EM5.
>
> Unless someone gifts me with one, nope. I simply refuse to pay for the PD
> AF that I would never use. (I also suspect I
> might not find the v. deep grip comfortable.) It adds some nice enough
> stuff to E-M5 capabilities/features, but not
> enough to be compelling. I can understand the the designers and engineers
> were concentrating on the 4/3 lens
> compatibility, and rightly so. Still, it puts them behind on THE
> significant remaining flaw in µ4/3 (and other small,
> mirrorless, focal plane shutter cameras), shutter shock.
>
> Sony has put EFC on the A7, and Panny ES on the GX7 (Will Oly wait for the
> E-M7?)
>
> I have no interest in switching horses in the midst of this stream. The
> µ4/3 lenses I have are excellent, and have
> become an extensive family, covering a wide range of uses. With FF eq. of
> 18-600 mm coverage, good macro on the 12-50,
> exquisite macro with the 60/2.8, and the 20/1.7 for real dark, I'm feeling
> pretty well served.
>
> So Sony and Fuji aren't tempting. Images from the Fujis are certainly nice
> looking at web size, the sensors have an
> excellent, 3Dish quality, but the lenses available provide inadequate
> coverage for me. And Sony are famous for
> inadequate lens selection.
>
> The camera you seem, to my mind, to have left out is the GX7. It solves
> the shutter shock problem without a release
> delay in the majority of my circumstances*, has good controls, and is very
> capable. I find it comfortable to hold. With
> a larger grip than the E-M5, you might find it comfortable. It's tall
> enough that, with index finger up on the release,
> the other three of my fingers fit on the front of the body. (Then again, I
> don't mind at all if the pinkie slips under a
> camera body. In fact, I had to pick it up, to see where my fingers fall.)
>
> I can hope that Oly now puts their efforts into an EFC or full ES version
> derived from the E-M5. But there's no hurry.
> The GX7 will give me much to do and learn this year. The sensor is a bit
> better than the E-M5, and I think the E-M1, in
> ways important to me.
>
> M. F. T. Moose
>
> * Relatively slow sync with shutter shock may be a real problem for some
> folks using fill. I just don't know enough
> about flash to give a meaningful opinion. My solution was to grab an Oly
> with SS delay.
>
> --
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