Originally posted by cg57 Tell me are you still considering getting one?
Well, AFAICT the G9 is the camera I want, but the G85 is the camera I can afford.
I'm pretty disappointed that the next Pentax APS-C flagship is taking so long. No decision taken, but I'm thinking of getting the G85 with 12-60mm F/3.5-5.6 WR lens, shooting a bit with that to see if I like the system, then sell just the body if/when I find a good deal on a used G9 (or prices come down). Apparently "M4/3 Is Doomed! (tm)" so maybe prices will come down...?
The GX9 is pretty temping too, with the 20mp sensor and 9fps raw bursts (G85 is 9 fps mechanical shutter in jpg, but drops to 7fps in RAW, I believe), but the fact that the GX9 is not WR, the smaller battery and the lower spec EVF are all turn-offs...
Originally posted by Dean Bradshaw I have a 500mm mirror lens attached to the G85, playing with some moon shots. I'd like to be able to use the zoom in to assist with accurate focus. However, even though I have the Monitor Live View mode enabled and it operates correctly when not zoomed, once I zoom in the zoomed area seems to revert to a non-Live View exposure level, so I get a magnified view of a very over exposed moon
I don't have an answer here, but I have a couple of questions!
So does that mean that if you were shooting manual mode with a manual flash, as soon as you zoom in the view on the monitor and in the viewfinder would become
very dark? (Since the shot is technically underexposed as the camera doesn't know a flash will fire or at what power.) That would be a major bummer for me. Or is it the reverse? (ie the image will be very dark
unless you magnify). That would also suck, but it would suck less, I think...
What I strongly want is to be able to disable "exposure preview", whether the image is magnified or not.
Which leads to ask
1) When you zoom-in to focus (magnified liveview in Pentax parlance), are both the image in the EVF as well as the image on the back screen magnified?
2) If you half-press the shutter, do you automatically lose the magnification? If so is there a setting to disable that? The fact that you lose the magnification on half-press on a K-3 and you can't disable that is a major point of annoyance for me...
Originally posted by Dean Bradshaw Still not sure if this is just me or if others, either with G85 or other Panasonic bodies, experience this?
I'm also interested in knowing the answer to this...