Could have been another 12 for all I know and it just looked different to me. I’m always amazed at how people always grab some tiny detail and hang their entire argument on it.
The point is not the nomenclature, but the camera itself. The times that I’ve used G’s, I have found the image to be really good, the quality solid, the controls very good and the only thing that I didn’t like that much was the size and, naturally, the shutter lag.
People are willing to pay $200 or more for the rebadged Lumix under the Leica badge when they are clearly inferior: long lags, slow focus and, in the case of the M’s, notorious problems such as the shredding of the memory cards.
Yet, when a manufacturer takes a good product, slowly but surely makes it better, it is criticized because “it is not enough”
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.