Miltz
This was probably the most exciting announcement of 2018 and I was super excited when this camera was released. Unfortunately the camera has some major issues that are inexcusable for its price range. The Good: Great Central Sharpness (Equal to the Leica Q) with decent mid frame to corner sharpness. Small, Light, Stealth Body, looks like an old point and shoot. Battery Life isnt terrible for a tiny battery. Easy to hold. Very Good dynamic range. Menus are good. Stabilization works very well. The Bad: 1. Camera doesnt ship with charger. You have to buy a spare charger separately for $50. The spare charge DOES NOT come with the cable or USB power adapter to use it. You have to buy that separately too! Thats completely ridiculous as everyone will order at least one spare battery for it which is another $40. How they sell you a spare charger without the cable and USB power to use it beyond me. Real cost over the Camera is over $1,025 not $899. 2. For a camera that has no viewfinder the LCD has to be good. It should be great on a $1,000 camera. Well its terrible. Its extremely hard to use in direct sunlight and nearly impossible to accurately compose shots. Even with max brightness its bad. The Canon M100 has a similar screen for $399. Ironically the areas where the autofocus works the best which is bright direct sunlight, you cant see the screen...lol (What were they thinking?) 3. Low Light autofocus is bad and inaccurate even with Firmware 1.1. Camera refuses to focus very often. At times the camera will confirm focus only to find out later on my computer the shot was out of focus. Worst autofocus camera of 2019 for $1,000 4. Lens vignetting is Terrible! Even with all the corrections in camera and photoshop you cant completely remove it. Now, I personally like vignetting on some of my images, but as a creative choice. Here, all your images will have it. Forget about putting a subject in the mid to corner areas of the frame. 5. After having the camera for 2 weeks I already see dust spots inside the lens. Obviously this is impossible to clean and just imagine in 1 to 2 years how bad it will get. Another issue is cleaning the front element is extremely challenging because theres a huge gap around it. Its basically open around it. So if you use a blower, youll blow the dust INSIDE the lens. Terrible design. $1,025 for a camera with all these issues is inexcusable. If the camera was $549-$599 with the charger included it would a fair price. (I dont understand how the price doubled from the GRII) The Canon M100 for $399 has much better autofocus, equal image quality with 22mm prime, a similar quality LCD that tilts (both are poor but the Canon isnt over $1,000), and better jpgs. Yet the Canon for $399 gets you a charger in the box.