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Hello, i need help. When i turn on my gf7 after few mins the screen is getting stuck and i cannot turn it off. The only way to shut it down is by removing the battery. I cant use my camera because of this issue. Please help me..
Full review
All in all, the little Panasonic GF7 packs a lot of performance into a small, lightweight and easy to use package. It may be billed as an entry-level camera and comes in at an affordable, entry-level price, but the GF7 offers a lot of camera for the money. As with many of the other 16MP Micro Four Thirds cameras out there, the image quality is impressive.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/panasonic-gf7/panasonic-gf7A.HTM
Field test part 2
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/panasonic-gf7/panasonic-gf7-field-test-part-ii.htm
Dropped to $442 at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S86L6DI
I guess you can still fix the shutter using the anti-flicker feature, so not a total loss here. I believe exposure compensation should still work (although fixed at the beginning of the video), and the camera does have focus peaking.
So I was considering the GF7 as a 60 FPS capable alternative to the GM1. But I read in the cameralabs.com review that the GF7 does not offer exposure control in video and the camera sets everything regardless of mode dial, and in reading the GF7 advanced manual this seems to be the case. This is in contrast to the GM1 and GX7 which do offer user control. If so, this is sort of a mess- all the reviews talk about how similar the GF7 is to the GM1 and GX7. The GF7 even offers 60 FPS, an upgrade over GM1, but artificially restricts user control over movies???
Comparison with GX7
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2015/04/23/we-post-panasonic-gf7-first-shots
The Lumix GF7 is a great little camera and I really enjoyed using it. If you take lot of selfies it is, without doubt, the best option, combining ease of use and fun, innovative modes while at the same time offering most of the things you'd expect from an advanced mirrorless compact system camera.
I'll wait until I see footage from the GF7 before passing judgement on its quality/usability. The Fujis are supposed to have crap video, but I shot a piece to camera recently on an X-100s that was perfectly acceptable (at 30fps, which I know filmmakers don't use but which renders movement nicely, for our purposes).
As well, I want to know whether any of these arm-waving > focus on face modes can be used for video too—that's always the hard part if you are on your own. It looks like a toy, but the fact it uses the µ4/3rds lenses makes it, potentially, a useful toy.
GF7 is not designed as a replacement of the GX7, but as a new iteration of the GM1 line: slightly larger, but with the flip screen. Everything is designed to keep the GF7 size and its cost as small as possible. I would not speculate on any further developments of the Panasonic cameras based on the GF7, except of the apparent stress on the wireless networking capabilities of the digital cameras.
@yskunto : IMHO, the need for PTTOOLS has very much faded since...
Both the GH3/GH4 have much higher bitrate codecs. And most of all latest models have upped their h.264 profiles (providing much better IQ for the same bitrate) in such a way that it's hard to get a challenged output. Such an example was the GX7.
As for EM5 II, besides IBIS, which is fantastic, there are two little practical things I like about Oly EM5 that none of Pana cameras has: proper AE/AF lock functioning during video recording, and proper AF+MF focus mode, you can either dial focus or force AF by half-pressing shutter button at any time you will.
If they add 25p and robust codec (I don't even need all-I), I'm sold. Swivel LCD is a strong point, as well. This is gonna be my main handheld camera.
There are two major drawbacks still. 1. No dedicated audio in. You can buy SEMA-1 hot shoe mic adapter, however. But once it's there you cannot mount a mic, you need to mount it on a rig or a bracket - I'm not happy about it. 2. ~25 minutes time limit.
I don't think they are going to change this in MK II.
@duartix I never turn into Panasonic Lumix until I know that @Vitaliy_Kiselev hack makes Lumix body capable of producing high quality video. Here PTOOLs is a factor! But do this GF7 "selfy" thing will be a factor for most people to acquire it?
Nowadays other manufactures catch up or even surpass most competitive benefits of Lumix lines. There are also, until this date, no new PTOOLs to liberate the potential power of the latest Lumix bodies.
I think Panasonic should just open their firmware code including this cute GF7 to @Vitaliy_Kiselev and team and let this community decide how far we want to push the hardware of our Lumix bodies. Here once again PTOOLs will be a factor! Otherwise, other manufactures will take away Panasonic DSLM consumer. Take a look on how Sony A7s take away some of potential GH4 consumer and GH2/GH3 user who looking for upgrade.
Meanwhile no G7 in sight for a very long horizon. And IBIS looks more and more like an once in a lifetime GX7 adventure. :(
I guess I'll have to see what the E-M5 Mk 2 brings in sensor readout improvement and frame rates. The codec seems to finally have been addressed.
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