One major new feature introduced in the camera is "Dual IS", the camera 5 axis image stabilisation gets synchronised,[citation needed] when available, with lens based image stabilisation.

The manufacturer has indicated the time to acquire auto focus as 0.07 seconds.

The electronic OLED viewfinder has a resolution of 2.36 million dots and, as in the predecessor, is tiltable.

A smaller version of the GX8, the Panasonic GX80 (retailed as the GX85 in the United States and as the GX7 Mark II in Japan) was announced on April 4, 2016.

According to the claim made by Panasonic, the Panasonic GX80/GX85 will have 10% more fine detail resolving power than cameras with a similar sensor which do include a low pass filter.