Panasonic GX7 camera

see also:

• Micro Four Thirds system
• Panasonic Australia's web page
• ePhotozine's excellent comparison of GX7 and Olympus E-M5

• a very nice Micro Four Thirds system camera announced Aug 2013
• looks to have almost everything an enthusiast photographer could want in such a compact camera, although it will be a little pricey but much cheaper than the Olympus OM-D E-M1
• the main annoyances are:
  • the protruding EVF is not as good as the latest in the Olympus OM-D E-M1, but at least it has a built in EVF!
  • sensor based IS does not work in movie mode
  • sensor based IS does not work with lenses with optical IS - if you turn OIS off, you don't get the option of turning sensor based IS on.
  • sensor based IS not as effective as the Olympus 5-axis system
  • no autoISO in manual exposure mode
  • no weatherproofing

• 16mp sensor with 10% improved colour saturation and light sensitivity and 25% improved signal-noise ratio
• ISO 200-25,600 (ISO 125 in extended mode)
• -4 EV AF capability
• 4.2fps burst with AF
• 9fps with single AF
• 40fps in electronic shutter mode
• 22 creative filters
• HDR
• panoramic mode
• new Monochrome Filter (Ye/Or/R/G) PhotoStyle for more expressive monochrome photography
• compact magnesium body with in-camera image stabilisation (a 1st for Panasonic)
• built-in tiltable 2.3M dot field sequential LCD EVF with 0.7x magnification but rather short 17.5mm eyepoint which may be an issue for those wearing glasses
• 3“ tiltable LCD touch screen
• front and rear control dials
• +/- 5EV exp. compensation
• 240fps AF-control interface with lens
• 3 level focus peaking
• improved Pinpoint AF allows users to set magnification from 3x to 10x enlargement in 0.1x steps
• PIP focusing allows up to 10x zoom to assist MF
• One-shot AF can be used in MF mode just by pressing the AF lock button
• 1080/60p/50p/24p HD video
  • 28Mbps at 50/60p in MP4 or AVCHD - so it is pretty good but not up to GH-3 quality
  • 24Mbps at 24p AVCHD
  • PASM exposure control
  • stereo mic but no external mic input
• shutter speed to 1/8000th sec
• 1/320th flash sync
• pop-up flash plus hot shoe
• WiFi plus NFC for control by smartphone
• impressive silent electronic shutter mode
• eye detection sensor sensitivity adjustment
• nice MF/AF switch
• 4 rear Fn buttons
• 402g 122.6 x 70.7 high x 43.3mm deep
• price £819/$US1100/$A1249 body only makes it a little bit more expensive than the Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera

• Michael Reichmann's field review posted on Luminous-Landscape.com
• Tyson Robichaud Photo-blography
• hardwarezone.com.sg
• CameraLabs.com review
• dpreview.com's review

Steve Huff's hands-on review