{"id":1634,"date":"2015-09-02T06:44:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T05:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2015-09-02T07:38:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T06:38:38","slug":"panasonic-gx8-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2015\/panasonic-gx8-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic GX8 &ndash; First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>I was asked the other day what I think of the Panasonic GX8. As I predicted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2015\/its-not-just-what-you-do-with-it-size-is-important\/\">here<\/a>, it&#8217;s absolutely the right size: sit it on the desk next to the GX7 in its half-leather case, which is how I always use it, and they are exactly the same size to within a mm or two. It just feels right in my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise it feels very much like a cross between the GX7&#8217;s neat rangefinder ergonomics and the GH4&#8217;s speed and weather protection, pretty much just as requested. There are a couple of minor annoyances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m peeved that the battery is a different model to the GX7 (and the various other Panasonic cameras I own). Apparently shared with the G7 in the current line-up, it looks suspiciously like the one from my old GH2. So bang goes the aspiration of travelling with just one battery type and charger&#8230; That said, it does seem to offer much better life, so there are pros and cons. <\/li>\n<li>Moving the &quot;rear dial&quot; from the edge of the top panel (like the GH models) to the top of the panel will take a little getting used to, but I suspect that will feel second nature fairly quickly. <\/li>\n<li>Panasonic have gone down the GH4 route of putting the focus mode on a physical switch. I broadly understand why, as if this is set wrong it can easily trip you up in a very confusing way, but the counterpoint is that I can no longer set focus mode associated with custom settings, but will have to manually adjust separately. On balance, I prefer a button\/menu.<\/li>\n<li>The loss of the flash is a minor annoyance, but realistically I almost never use one any longer as I prefer to just &quot;take pictures in the dark&quot; using the remarkable high ISO capability of the new cameras. If previous patterns are borne out, I expect ISO 6400 to be fully usable. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s too early to judge image quality, as there&#8217;s no Capture One support yet, but the in-camera JPGs are pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; I was asked the other day what I think of the Panasonic GX8. As I predicted here, it&#8217;s absolutely the right size: sit it on the desk next to the GX7 in its half-leather case, which is how I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2015\/panasonic-gx8-first-impressions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}