Part of the family: The GX85 (top) alongside its Lumix stablemates, the GX7 and GX8. So whichever way you view the GX85, it certainly stacks up nicely to its Panasonic peers, as well as to the competition. However, aside from its sensor and EVF, the GX85 also shares a lot of core components and specs with the GX8, such as its 49-point AF system, 4K video capture and 6 fps burst with AF.
And like the GX7, it lacks weather sealing and microphone/headphone ports but has a pop-up flash.
The chart above seems to give support to both ways of looking at it: the GX85 uses the same field sequential EVF as the GX7 (although it doesn't tilt), and what is presumably the same sensor ( sans AA filter). And the different regional naming conventions for the GX85 only add to the confusion. It's arguable whether the GX85 should be called the little brother of the GX8 or the true replacement to the GX7. Another advantage over its big bro: the GX85 can also use Dual IS during 4K video capture, something that the GX8 cannot. But unlike the GX8, which has 4-axis sensor IS, the GX85 offers 5-axis sensor IS with rotation correction. Like the GX8, the GX85 offers Dual I.S., combining sensor-based image stabilization with lens-based IS. However, Panasonic claims that the new Venus Engine image processor is specially tuned to combat moiré and false color and in use, we've found that it does so pretty well. This should lead to better detail retention at the pixel level, but can also lead to moiré. The GX85 also has no anti-aliasing filter, a first for Panasonic cameras. The new electromagnetic shutter found in the GX85 resolves this problem. Shutter-induced blur ('shutter shock') was an issue we encountered on the GX8, which used a motor and spring arrangement in its shutter mechanisms. It also has a redesigned shutter mechanism. Still, the GX85 shares many of its big brother’s features like 4K photo mode, Post Focus, Depth from Defocus AF, and Dual I.S. It also does not have the tilting EVF, weather-sealing or microphone input offered by the GX8. Sliding in directly below the flagship GX8, the GX85 is targeted toward enthusiast photographers and videographers. It doesn't use the new 20MP Four Thirds chip we saw in the GX8, instead it sticks with the familiar 16MP sensor used on many other Micro Four Thirds cameras.
In markets outside of North America the GX85 is sold as the GX80 in Japan it is sold as the GX7 Mark II. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85 is a mid-range interchangeable lens camera sporting a 16MP Four Thirds sensor and 4K video capability. 5-axis image stabilization with Dual I.S.
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