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Aye splash proof they say. Sounds like you put that lens to the test, as did I. Like youself caught in a bit of a heavy shower, a few days later started having aperture issues, which with time got worse, to the point the lens was unusable. I believe you got lucky. A painful lesson to learn, but learn it I did. I have mostly olympus gear now and most of it weather sealed. I treat the weather sealing as a last resort, I do all in my power to make sure the camera doesn't get wet. It's not worth the risk, and the older the camera gets the less weather sealed it will be.

Had mine since 2018 - it's my (barring phone) only camera and I love it. Mainly use it for natural light portrait shoots (with the Olympus 45mm prime), street (with the Panasonic 20mm pancake) and as a hiking / general travel camera with the Olympus 14-150mm superzoom. Does everything I want it to do - even some credible stabs at Astro! Would only really even consider upgrading for weather sealing

I have the FZ1000II LOVE IT

I hear you I used to live in Galway so I know if it's 25 C it's a heat wave I now live in Liverpool which isn't much different but I lived in Berlin for 14 years and it often gets over 30C in summer, you get used to it, the sun is like the best video light so sunny places are your best friend if you shoot video imo, photography not so much I can get great shots in cloudy overcast situations with stills but with video I find that much more difficult , I own a Nikon D750 full frame camera and a Nikon D500 crop sensor and lots of Nikon glass, needless to say I also own the g9ii which I totally love for video but I prefer my Nikon's for photography, I find it strange that Panasonic marketed the g9ii as a photo first camera because I think there are a lot of cheaper Nikon or Canon cameras that take much better photos but not so good video (at least not in the g9ii price range) , the IBIS and amount of video codecs plus open gate pro res and the ability to record directly to an SSD on the g9ii make it a video first camera imo, keep your vlogs coming and thanks for sharing

Received it from Japan last week. Most fun for the money. Highly recommended

Far and away in my opinion, the best use of micro 4/3 is for shooting wildlife my Sony A1 and it’s 600 mm zoom lens is massive so I generally do not use it much. I have to shoot it from a tripod and it’s usually things like a sporting event. Outdoors there is plenty of light. The smaller sensor size is not nearly the handicap and I will use my 300 mm M4 that is amazingly sharp and sometimes I will even add my tele converter My 7-14 does quite well for landscapes and it is all a great bit of kit for a walk about

Great photos!!! Love them.

The GX80/85 is still a fantastic camera in 2024. The pictures and movies, are pin sharp and excellent. The newer cameras are not better in the results !

Good battery life, that must be a joke... It's literally half the competition

I have been using M4/3 on and off (mostly on!) since the GF-1 and I love the system. It's just a shame both Olympus and Panasonic have stopped making small cameras recently, or at least it has slowed down considerably. Let's hope we get a few new additions or updates in 2025! I would love to see a small Olympus with a monochrom only sensor! They could make it look like and call it the Olympus Trip M. 😁

I am a keen photographer who uses any camera that is available for my photography and a technician that repairs things, so when camera companies share the circuit diagram for their cmos sensors I have an idea of how it works. That said this week I took photos with my iPhone 16 in less than ideal conditions, conditions that I would have said were not good for a microfourthirds cameras and I can judge this because I own a number. They were brilliant utterly useable. So I would say that this low light stuff is a myth, and I am pretty sure that the big name cameras have more advanced light capture hardware, and that micro four thirds is using old designs for their sensors. We should focus on that, I am pretty sure Panasonic who no longer make these sensors and buy them from a competitor are more than happy for four thirds to slowly die. Having seen the newer circuit of one major supplier, I am pretty sure that this is a factor.

Agree for the joystick position, but the IBIS isn't that great. Maybe my copy only. It takes a lot of discipline to get a smooth panning, but once you've mastered it, it's gorgeous!

Inspired by this, I picked up a like new GF3 this week: am pairing it with a 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6 for everyday carry. It is really fun and once I got it set up properly, has nice image quality. Should make a fun every day carry camera I think!

i have my GX85 for 7 years and still love it.

I just got mine with a pana 12-35 ASPH II and it has now completely taken over my life. what a camera. although, I find it too big (and now has become the biggest camera I own. even bigger than my FF cams. :P), but I've really been enjoying it a lot. THAT IBIS is insane. O_O . and yeah, I totally agree with the joystick location! I think it would be better if the AF/AE lock was switched. it feels like a more natural location for the thumb.

l bought this same lens a couple of month ago, from MPB, 'as new 150 euros'. l use it on my Olympus E-P5. lts my first venture into to macro photography and must say I'm very pleased with the lens. l us a couple of Godox Litemons for illumination when necessary... Thanks for your review..

Thanks for the review, I've had this lens a few days and think you've summed it up well. What's the white grip you're using on the EM5?

E-m1 ii is what I want.

I still have mine in 2024, it works for me and produces nice images. Thanks for the upload 👍

Affinity Photo maybe worth a test? I got the V1 and since I'll restart my amateur hobbyist photographer career, I'm in the market for a non Adobe , non subscription good app

Gateway drug to micro four thirds is the Nikon 1 system. Using the Nikon 1 V3 opened my eyes to the use cases for smaller cameras that have small sensors and small lenses. The only thing driving me away from the V3 right now is that it's the last of the line, 95% of the lenses are auto-focus only, and you can't use off camera flash with it.

No, FF is popular because of the lens selection and price, medium format is even more expensive and has a short list of lens options, FF has the largest lens selection, and it's cheaper than medium format while still having the largest sensor affordable to most. I shoot FF and MFT for different purposes, yes, MFT is my go-to format for about 90%, but for indoor sports, for instance, I'll use the FF and the 70-200 f/2.8 and similar lenses, MFT has issues providing equivalent lenses for fast-moving subjects in low light, the same goes for APS-C, although you can use FF lenses on APS-C, but then you lose the advantage of APS-C since you are essentially cropping the lenses and losing sharpness.

"Video Cropping", might be because of a setting. You can choose which mode gets to be the default. Go to menu/set --> Custom (1 wrench with C) --> Rec Area and choose movie (icon) or camera (icon). I have 2 GX-8s that I have almost worn out. They were used to make videos until recently, when they were replaced by GH5 ii and retired to do photos. Oh, and Panasonic still has a user manual in .pdf online. It's scary detailed / long.

I just did buy one 2th hand with a extra battery and it comes in next Friday. I did get it for my digital street photography (do a lot of film to), after selling my Leica Q (totally no vibe with this camera) now only having a old GF1 (I love) as compact street camera. I own a Nikon D3 and D750, both great but to big and to eye catching for street. So my reason is get a stealth small good camera. With better image quality as the GF1, the IBIS and faster more reliable AF. So looking at a lot of content on TH-cam about this camera (and many other) and having the 20mm f1.7 and 14mm f2.5 (my favorite on the street) I did choose the GX80 (how it is called over here). And the price is also very nice. So can’t wait to get out!!

The DC G9 is not weather sealed, it is “splash proof”. This is from Panasonic support who didn’t fix my G9 suffering from weather ingress.

Меня бесит что нет переключателя рычагом фото - видео. И нет отдельных настроек для фото и для видео. На олимпусе древнем есть все это

Он звук на встроенный и внешний микрофон пишет плохо. Нужно покупать приблуду второй версии через башмак

€230? One year later and they're $700 on MPB. WTF?

There is no excuse to say that the computer is too slow for big files, or that they’re hard to store. These days, even a moderately good computer is fast enough, and storage is really cheap. If someone is saying that they bought a new camera and they have no room for the bigger photos, and I find that their computer is six years old and they have little storage, I lose sympathy for them. If you’re going to upgrade your camera, you may have to at least upgrade your storage and possibly your computer. That’s just part and parcel of photography. Upgrade one thing and you have to upgrade another thing. You have to be prepared for that. 4:3 users have to also be prepared to know that there won’t be much more improvements to the quality of their images in new equipment. We likely won’t see another OMD body. If they have something it will be a Chinese body that’s rebranded with a 4:3 mount. Their new lens is a rebranded Sigma. And Panasonic is losing interest. I’d like to say that full frame is not popular in digital because of 35mm film. The first DSLRs were APS-C. That was for years. Then Canon came out with a. I’ll frame pro camera. It was popular with pros because of the higher IQ. Then they came out with the much cheaper 5D, and it was very popular, again because of the IQ. Then almost everyone came out with full frame, APS-C began to lose sales and that’s where we stand. When 4:3 first came out, those companies said that it was a compromise between price, size and image quality. They weren’t trying to build a pro level camera, but one for “prosumers”. But it got out of hand with the cameras getting much too expensive and big for what it was.

Ecxelente, honesto y franco con el sistema micro 4/3. Buen video. Después de ver el vídeo tengo deseos de trabajar más con las cámaras sin espejo de sensores micro 4/3. Saludos 😊👍🍷🍾

Same aperture on m43 does NOT let in the same amount of light. How so many people still do not get that?😀

Currently use s5iix but needing a 2nd camera for jobs, nothing fancy, just shooting for friends.. Would it be better to invest in lens for my gx85 or d5600? I know d5600 has more MP but not sure what to do. Want to make sure I achieve high quality enough pic to pair with s5iix photos.

I'm glad you mentioned the (sometimes) slow startup time. I just bought a new G9 II and noticed that as well. Also it seems the playback is a bit slow to respond too...or at least, noticeably slower than other cameras I've used. It's not a huge issue for me, but it is a bit annoying. I believe the camera I got (at a local store) is probably an early build because here in Oct 2024 when I bought it new, it had firmware version 1.0. I would have expected a newer firmware if the one I bought was built in the last 6 months or so. Maybe sales of these are slow at the store I bought it from.

bro, that video test clip is dogshit.

You also do not understand the reason for worst lowlight performance. It is the lenses with a smaller opening pupil. If you take an "equivalent" lens, then your sensor collects the same amount of photons. Until it reaches saturation. And then, the only disadvantage of a mft sensor kicks in: worst dynamic range. That is lower full well capacity of each pixel. So the reason for more noise in lowlight shots is, rhat you can't buy "equivalent" lenses to for example a 1.4 ff lens. That means, a lens with the same opening pupil.

Sensor size is only really important (from my experience) in wildlife photography. nearly everything else, if properly exposed and/or processed, will be fine. Especially using modern noise reduction. I shot some of my favourite images with an 8 mpx camera, and they stand up to my current images.

Really impressed with the colour rendering, seems so lifelike and natural. Is that the camera or the lens, or.... all the afterwards software messing about ..?

I feel the low light is real, but exaggerated though, because it would have to be really dark for f4 not to work. To me the biggest manifestation of the low light issue is that the f1.7 primes stop at 42.5mm. I wish Panasonic did telephoto primes that are not as expensive as the 200 f2.8. And that brings me to the other con and it is that it seems that lens development for the mount has stopped.

I've owned this little camera since it came out. It was on special for $600 AUD and came with the 12-32mm kit zoom and a 24mm f1.7 prime. Seemed silly to pass up because I was looking for something smaller than my full frame EOS bodies that I could leave in my bag and I needed something to act as a 2nd video angle to a GH4. Given the 4K video was an exact match it was the perfect B-Cam. That was nearly 9 years ago and these days it's still a great C-cam to my Blackmagic Pocket 4K and GH4. My old full frame EOS cameras almost never get taken out since the GX85 is just so much easier to cart around with a 12-32mm + 35-100mm the size of a shot glass.

Nice review, thanks bud. Looking at picking one of these up for my GH5. They can be had pretty cheap second hand nowadays.

I hate this discussion about which system is better. There is no better system. It depends on what and how you shoot. For landscape, macro, travel, street, MFT is the better choice. For portrait, low light and product photography, ff is better. APS-C sits between and is neither fish nor fowl.

How’s the animal eye AF on this camera?

I have both the GM1 and GM5. Both are really too small. Even the Oly 17mm f1.8 makes the cameras front heavy and off balanced.

I'm surprised... shooting at 12 600 ISO with a M43... Either it was deep dark or if there was some ligth on the scene, that may say that your lens aperture was at f 8.0 ! It's now two years that I have M43 equipment. For video, on my G9 II I never go over 1600 ISO. With lenses around f 1.4 or f 1.8, I found the picture quality is very good. And if I compare with a FF lens, because the depth of field is very narrow, if I have to go down to f4.0, even with a sensor which is 4 times bigger than a M43 sensor, in terms of noise, being at 1600 ISO is equivalent to 12800 ISO. Which is the same limit in terms of image quality for a FF sensor. By the way, It seems to me that on your shelf, you have a Zenit camera... which remember me the ancient time when there was a wall between the west and USSR... Not sure that I would build a wall between FF and M43 nowadays... each system has its own advantages depending on the owner priorities.

Hi! I saw a firmware that said you can shoot 4k with this is that true?

I have tiny sensor cameras, like phone sensor size, 1", MFT, APS-C, and full-frame. It's all about lens combinations as far as noise, fast shutter speed, and depth of field are concerned. But if you make a 12-35mm f/1.4 lens on MFT (in 35mm it's a 24-70 f/2.8), it will perform like that, but also be as big as a normal 2.8 lens on full-frame - the laws of physics (actually, lens design also matters, but still). The OM-1 MK II has the super-res mode, the pixel shift, which is the tripod mode, and then the image average mode, the handheld 50 MP mode. It takes 16 images and combines them with super resolution. MFT can do everything, except fast motion in low light, over distance, simply because it doesn't have fast telephoto lenses. For this, full-frame with its 2.8 telephoto lenses is better. Even APS-C lacks f/1.8 zoom lenses, since Sigma Art lenses are for DSLR and not mirrorless. Shots of the moon: you take 200 shots and make it super high resolution on the computer with free software. However, the P1000, even with its phone-sized sensor, is best for moon shots due to its 3000mm lens, and then you clean it up by image averaging. google moon P1000 images.

You've fot a great voice -- that looped chimey noise in the background just takes away from it.

Looking for my first camera. Nothing too fancy. I'm debating between the GX8 vs Xt30ii. Which one is better for multipurpose?

It’s a camera. A brilliant camera. Leave the blah blah for your own personal taste.

Does the G9 still have a video limit for 4I ?