PetaPixel: Panasonic Says the G9 II is Physically Large to Balance Better for Wildlife Photography

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PetaPixel had a short chat with Tomoki Nakanishi, Supervisor of the Marketing in the Imaging Business Unit at Panasonic. He explained the G9II had to be nearly as big as the S5II to better balance with telephoto lenses.

“G9 Mark II is very good at telephoto shooting and [as you know] the lens therefore becomes bigger [in those cases],” Nakanishi adds. “G9 Mark II is not the type of camera for street photography so we have to try and [design it to be held] for telephoto shooting.”

“I think the G9 Mark II overall is taken to be a very large Micro Four Thirds camera. But if we compare numbers with the original G9, it’s actually not that different in size,” Sugawara says.