Issues with image stabilization are to be fixed as per Panasonic's announcement. The G85 is pretty great so far.

Panasonic has made a name for itself in the past year not only on its solid technologies, but also for offering up very competitive cameras. The Lumix G85 is another great camera, one that gets better if you buy with its 12-60mm kit lens. This new kit option is also weather sealed, making the full camera ready to shoot in the rain. That's almost unheard-of at $1,000, especially in the mirrorless camera world. You'd have to pay significantly more to get the same performance and weather resistant build from Olympus. In a very welcome upgrade, the G80 / G85 now gains a magnesium alloy front plate and weather-sealing; a key benefit over its predecessor and the GX80 / GX85, and a feature that importantly brings it in line with the dust and splash-proof Olympus OMD EM5 Mark II and Sony A6300. I'm also pleased to find the G80 / G85 kit includes the recent 12-60mm zoom which is also weather-sealed, making it more desirable in range and build over the 12-32mm non-sealed kit zoom of the GX80 / GX85. It's also longer than the weather-sealed 12-50mm zoom often bundled with the OMD EM5 Mark II. In your hands, the G80 / G85 feels a World apart from the light and plasticky Lumix G7. It's heavier and feels reassuringly denser as a result. The dials didn't feel quite as chunky or the feedback as tactile as those on the EM5 Mark II, but in terms of overall feel, the G80 / G85 has come on a long way since earlier models in the series. Like the G7 before it, you can compose with a 3in fully-articulated screen or a 2360k dot OLED viewfinder, although Panasonic has upgraded the magnification from 0.7x to 0.74x. Revealingly the EVF specification now matches the OMD EM5 Mark II, a camera which also features a fully-articulated touch-screen, making them very similar in terms of composition. I should also add I much prefer the composition options of the G80 / G85 to the GX80 / GX85 as not only is the screen fully-articulated versus vertically-tilting only, the OLED panel in the viewfinder also looks much better to my eyes.Read full review

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