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Fun with Lumix GM5

raist3d

Well-known member
Shot at a birthday party. RJ Mical's personality goes beyond the frame quite literally.



- Ricardo
 
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Jorgen Udvang

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All combos must be tried. This one was a little front heavy :)

GM5 with Zuiko 40-150mm f/2.8 @ 150mm, f/2.8, 1/100s and ISO 6400

 

Seascape

New member
Love my GM1, the best quality P&S sized camera I've come across with interchangeable lens….the skies the limit.

It's smaller than a GM5 with all the same image quality. You can grab images anywhere…….no one notices :cool:
 

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raist3d

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Love my GM1, the best quality P&S sized camera I've come across with interchangeable lens….the skies the limit.

It's smaller than a GM5 with all the same image quality. You can grab images anywhere…….no one notices :cool:
I would have loved the GM1, but that dial-wheel in the back is completely usability killer for me. I can't believe Panasonic made the world's worst "Canon powershot wheel" though I normally hate these things anyway. ;-) To me that alone is a reason to get the GM5.

- Ricardo
 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
Back from Norway where I didn't have time to take many photos, I found a lens waiting for me at the reception, the Panasonic 25mm f/1.7. It costs nothing and is mostly made from plastic, but seems well put together, and most important of all: It's a great lens for the GM5.

Here's an early test with my usual "brick wall suspects", sitting on the kitchen bench, their usual hangout. I'll use this combo a lot.

GM5 with Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 @ f/1.8

 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
Who needs that old D810 anyway? And the E-M1... that large, clunky old box... GM5 it is ;)

Jpeg out of the camera. No adjustments except slight brightness and slight sharpening.

GM5 with Panasonic 35-100mm f/4-5.6 @ 35mm and f/5.3

 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
This is the kit, 510 grams in all:
GM5, 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6, 35-100mm f/4.0-5.6 and 25mm f/1.7.

I might add a portrait lens (Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7, Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro or Zuiko 75mm f/1.8) later, plus the Samyang 7.5mm Fisheye.



What's fantastic is that the camera, apart from the size, basically has a user interface and sensor technology more or less on level with any other m4/3 camera. There's no excuse not to take decent photos with this kit. Video is pretty good too :)
 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
And since I've already posted a selfie in hopeless lighting, here's a bokeh test from the restaurant later in the evening, in even worse lighting. Bokeh is nice though, particularly considering this is a $200 plastic lens :)

GM5 with Pana 25mm f/1.7 @ f/1.7

 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
I cannot say that my GAS is permanently killed, but with the current state of affairs, it's increasingly difficult to find rational arguments for buying new, expensive gear. When I look at the sharpness, colours, contrast and to a certain degree even bokeh that I'm able to achieve with the $400 GM5 and the $200, collapsible Pana 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6, a combo that weighs well under 300 grams including battery and SD-card and that includes a decent viewfinder, I wonder if I'll ever need a big, clunky box between my hands again.

I might buy a GX85 to get IBIS, an articulated LCD and 4K video, but beyond that... I don't know. During the last two days that I spent in Yangon, the E-M1 and 40-150mm f/2.8 didn't even leave the camera bag.

GM5 with Pana 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 18mm and f/4.2 (wide open)



100%, lower right corner, no sharpening:

 
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