If the exposure is set to multi-pattern metering, showing that the camera is attempting to create a file integrity, so to speak, with no blown-out lights and dark shadows. This is in cameras from other manufacturers is not necessarily the case in which the multi-segment metering works more center-weighted. There is then an (important) the main subject in the center expects that is more heavily weighted in the exposure. This may possibly result in at dark main subject and light background that is overexposed. Not so with the GX7 what with rapid shooting in auto mode is a great advantage for me.
As a blatant disadvantage, however, I look at the non-interruptible storage of exposure when the shutter release button halfway. If you want to put the focus on a defined point without saving the exposure (because you still want to swing the final Bildauschschnitt), then you can only do this on the AE / AF lock button that must be set to AF. If you want to save anyway in this configuration, the exposure, then this happens again on the trigger.
Totally inconsistent and the great advantage of the system cameras with EVF, exposure preview, contrary to, is the fact that the viewfinder / display image does not freeze in the brightness, but apparently further adjusts the exposure. The result can be a difference to the preview in the photo brightness. For storage of the exposure on the native AE-lock button, however, the behavior of the camera is not so, the brightness is also stored on the display.
The AF works in my experience relatively quickly and accurately, and that should be in a so-called. Contrast AF also so systemic. However, the Nachführautofokus is not quite as fast as the AF phase of modern DSLRs.
Noteworthy is the built-in small flash that you can use this even for short distances, large aperture and high sensitivities without hesitation, without fear of over-exposure. For example. if you anblitzt a person in the foreground at night in the city for lightening.
No reason, however, is that the burst circuit stops working when flashing, you can flash always take just one photo. This also applies to LUMIX Aufsteckblitze and older automatic flashes only with X-contact, which are apparently also recognized. I have a old Metz 32 MZ, the well keep up with modern batteries and over short distances with the continuous shooting mode with other cameras, which is not possible solely with the GX7. Very annoying and unprofessional considering the claim, which the manufacturer raises with camera.
Also, the white balance when flash is always the same, namely Flash WB, no matter what the photographer has set. While the preview shows the effect of different color temperatures or set symbols, the balance of the photos themselves is always the same. Given different, u. U. not only minimally in the color temperature of divergent flashes, which is an absurdity. Here again the advantage of the system cameras, the exposure preview, playful unnecessary.
The quality of the jpg files is as you would expect from a camera with a sensor of this size, the noise is quite visible from 400 ISO, if not then there are the effects of noise reduction. Even if this has been set to the lowest value. The photos are not really consistent in terms of colors, with a given uniform illumination shadows and highlights are not the same neutral and not have the same color trend. Because of the restrictions described's three stars.
