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Bought the cam about 1 month ago. Used it in my trip to Scandinavia to shot mostly scenaries (lakes, rivers, mountains). This is my first camera, so I am not so familiar with custom set of all parameters, used presets generally (portrait, scenery etc). All main functions/presets can be accesed by buttons & special rings. Usability is on the high level. My mates brought some mirror cams (canon, nikon) to that trip and I could compare quality of their shots with mine ones - no significant differencies, so I am glad to get g10. Good value for ~400$ I paid. As Ive heard and it was proved by my experience - the default lenses are not the best choice for dark conditions and their are so big... It seriously lowers size/weight characteristic of the cam. My be I'll change default lens in the future for smth smaller & lighter. Anyway - good choice for the novicers who dont want to spend huge money for the cam used 1-2-3 times of year as I do.Read full review
I got my G10 in late October 2010 and I have used it in multiple situations since then. I also have the 45mm - 200mm Panasonic zoom lens. (When I bought these the G10 was $399 and the zoom lens was under $300 - price rise lately is surprising). I've shot some movie clips of a choir performance, where the ability to zoom while recording, and to adjust exposure compensation while filming were very much appreciated by me. I kind of take auto focus during movie recording for granted, but note that many DSLRs cannot do that, or cannot do it nearly as well as any micro four thirds camera. About stills, the JPEGS are quite good but not the pumped up (highly saturated) colors that, for example, Canon is known for. Looks more realistic, kind of like Nikon jpegs. I've started shooting raw and I think I'm going to keep doing that. The camera seems more than fast enough, I don't notice a speed difference. And the ability to play with the .rw2 files in Adobe Camera Raw is liberating, I don't think I can overstate it. After a picture is converted to JPEG - with the Gamma curve imposed, only 8 bits per color, and black clip and white clip levels imposed, there's a lot you just can't do in post processing. But with the .rw2 file you get to adjust the black and white clip levels, the overall brightness with the "exposure" control, the response curve with the "brightness" control, you get to adjust the luminance noise reduction amount (and chroma noise, but I haven't seen that to be necessary). It's pretty amazing to me to get ISO 800 images developed from raw that look perfect to me even at 100% magnification, and developed from ISO 1600 that look very close to perfect (noise reduction has an effect on resolution, but only visible at 100% magnification; looks perfect in an 8x10 print). I used to use a film SLR. Developing color film was not within my capability - sending in film and getting back prints is kind of like shooting JPEG images. When I went digital first I had a Canon A70, then sold the film SLR and got a Panasonic FZ7 superzoom - I loved it, but with the small sensors on those cameras shooting at ISO 100 was pretty much the only viable option to avoid noise. I thought it was a difficult decision for me to get rid of the FZ7 and go to the G10 because I'd need two lenses - the kit lens plus the 45-200mm zoom - to approximately cover the range I had with the FZ7. Looking back now, it should not have been a difficult decision. The images I get out of the G10 are better in several ways - lower noise, more control over depth of field, using raw is a joy - "developing" color images to MAKE a jpeg is still amazing and wonderful to me. And - I have to say the electronic view finder is much better than the one on the FZ7. I looked through the G10 and the G2 viewfinder one right after the other before I bought the G10. I could not see a significant difference. The FZ7's viewfinder didn't have enough resolution but I lived with it; the G10's does have enough resolution for me; the G2's has more than enough - maybe it's just me, but I didn't see a great gain in resolution in the G2's EVF even though I know it's really there. For someone moving up from a point and shoot or super zoom, the G10 - as the least expensive micro four thirds model - is a real and significant step up to the micro four thirds camera system, without breaking the bank.Read full review
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Excellent and simple to use set. The pictures I've taken are really excellent! Good buy!
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I also own a GH2 and GH4. When comparing the units this does lack in features. But for a first time or beginning photographer. This unit will work excellent
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This camera body is an excellent value when used with legacy lens or Panasonic and Olympus lens. If you do not need video this is an excellent micro 4/3 camera and the pictures speak for themselves.