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| sent on 15 Aprile 2026
Pros: Very reliable phase AF (pretending that tracking does not exist), excellent sensor, robust body full of customizable controls, grip, not excessive size, exceptional stabilization (at normal focal lengths you can easily shoot with times of 2 seconds), price today on the used, excellent readout (1/60s), you can practically always shoot with an electronic shutter - and without loss of dynamic range compared to the mechanical!
Cons: Menus specifically designed to cause physical and mental pain in the user
Opinion: I bought this camera a couple of months ago, and after using it a lot I think I have a pretty accurate idea of it. Aesthetically beautiful (personal opinion), it is a pro body that manages not to distort the size of the m4/3 - for a long time I was undecided whether to take this or the Panasonic G9, when I saw them side by side in the shop I had no doubts, the Panasonic is as big as my Canon R6. Small size, I said, yet you don't give up anything: many controls (just missing the joystick, added with the mk.3), rigid and protruding buttons that are recognizable by touch, a perfect grip even for not small hands, with a very pronounced protrusion for the thumb on the back. The feeling of solidity in the hand is there (sd door aside), magnesium alloy and tropicalized body. Usability discourse, starting from the menus: terrible, horrifying, tangled and many functions have been made incredibly counterintuitive and / or poorly implemented. Do you learn to navigate it? Yes. Once you have set your preferences you don't have to go back there (or at least not often), but after seeing the ... perfect? Canon and Panasonic menus I was really dumbfounded. Example 1: There is no setting for the shutter, this is always combined with the burst and indicated in a questionable way. single shot/burst with the diamond symbol means antishock, which means first electronic curtain; with the heart means silent, which means electronic shutter... mah. Example 2: there is a difference between moving the AF point with the "physical" arrows or with the touch while looking at the viewfinder, and between moving it with the touch while looking at the screen; the two modes are not interchangeable and have different controls (to re-center the AF point on the screen in the first case you can/must assign the Home Position function to a button, in the second case you have to press the OK button). Example 3: Bracketing simply doesn't work in focus mode if you don't activate the electronic shutter. That said, the camera can be heavily customized (and settings can be saved and exported!! Got it Canon??) And at that point it really fits like a glove, as far as I'm concerned I've simplified or removed a lot of selections to make it as intuitive as possible. One thing I really like, compared to the Panasonic "competitor" I have at home, is obviously the phase AF, reliable and fast both in AFS and AFC. The sensitivity is also excellent, it can be used almost in the dark (the AFS in this sense is really excellent). There are several AF points (121), and I really appreciated the "reflex-like" organization of the same: the transition from one point to another is not as smooth as if the sensor had infinite (or almost) AF points, but it is jerky from one point to another, just like in a reflex: you don't risk using an area that falls on several AF points of which you don't know the real edges. Even the expanded AF areas always show the AF points that compose them (the possibility of giving priority to the central point is very appreciated). AFC talk: to be used absolutely as a reflex, the tracking is primordial to say the least, even worse than that of my Panasonic (GX85 and G81). The 20mpx sensor is a pleasant surprise (for me!), much better than the 16mpx which in addition to ISO3200 almost always unrecoverably even for AI denoise. I can make important shadows and highlights recoveries, and the noise is more manageable. You can set the minimum shutter speed in aperture priority, you can set a fixed exposure compensation in M with autoISO, there is a double SD slot, the batteries are full-bodied... In short, almost nothing is missing. I think that, for the price it is at today (450€ used in good/excellent condition), it is a truly exceptional body. |
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