Excellent travel camera - with a big shortcoming

Excellent travel camera - with a big shortcoming

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G6HEG-K system camera (16 megapixels, 7.6 cm (3 inch) display, Full HD, optical image stabilization, WiFi, NFC) black with lens Lumix G 14-140mm / F3.5-5.6 Power OIS (Electronics)

Customer Review

The Lumix G6 in kit with the 14-140 mm lens is basically an excellent camera:
- Good sensor characteristics with respect to sharpness and noise
- Fast autofocus
- An excellent image processing engine on board
- A variety of well-designed features, many scene modes
- Features on the amount of time such as NFC, WiFi, touchscreen
- In the kit a masterpiece of Lens Construction: 14-140 mm at just over 260g
- ... And all that with a total of just over 600 grams and compact dimensions

So actually a camera that should make particular as a travel companion, a reflex superfluous.

Were it not for a major shortcoming: Back from my first test photo session outdoors I noticed in reviewing the images on the computer that almost all test-portraits of my wife had a clearly visible blur. The pictures had one thing in common: They had been taken up with about 70-90 mm focal length and 1/125 or 1/160 shutter speed. After a few photos that were taken alternately with mechanical and electronic shutter, it was clear: the camera has at least with the 14-140 mm lens, a shutter-shock problem. The difference was on each of the many test photo pairs clearly recognizable and reproducible, and not just in the 100% screen-view, but in the normal full screen.

After subsequent research on the Internet ("G6 shutter shock" into Google) it was clear that not only me this problem is noticed. Especially pity, I find that Panasonic apparently the fault denied contribute instead to a solution. For example, would the issue with a simple firmware update completed, which makes a trip delay of about 1/8 second selectable - albeit at the expense of speed. So this problem has been addressed in any case in some Olympus cameras. The use of the electronic shutter is no real alternative, because even at relatively slow moving objects distortion caused by the rolling shutter.

Because I think that should be a camera at this price function properly, I returned it and the more suitable for my purposes Nikon D3300 bought the 18-105mm kit (see my review of the Nikon D3300).

Super 714 Rank: 5/5
October 30
a bit incompelte ... Rank: 4/5
October 23
Quality l.image price Rank: 2/5
December 29
1109 very practical Rank: 5/5
September 24

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