Matt Granger just posted this video testing the incredible sexy and unique Panasonic CM1 smartphone. Some low resolution image samples have been posted also on his website. There is also an interesting test in German posted by Chip.de on Youtube. This is just an example of how much better the CM1 is than one of the best Smartphone-cameras out there. The [shoplink 48412 ebay]Sony Z1[/shoplink]:
The Panasonic CM1 is listed at Panasonic Germany, Panasonic Austria, Panasonic France. For now it will be available in those countries only by end of this year for 899 Euro. I hope Panasonic will sell this worldwide in 2015. And now the big question:
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More CM1 videos:
Hands-on by Which (Youtube).
Hands-on in German (Youtube).
Hands-on in Spanish (Youtube)
Hands-on in a language I do not recognize (Youtube). Guess what language it is 🙂
Hands-on in Italian (Youtube).
Olympus preorders:
Silver E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
LH-76 lens hood at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
MC-14 1.4x teleconverter at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD62 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD72 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
General links to all new Olympus stuff at Adorama.
ALL new stuff announced at Photokina at Amazon.
Panasonic preorders:
LX100 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at WexUK.
GM5 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at WexUK.
GM5 in red at Adorama.
35-100mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
50 Responses
This camera might be marginally better than the camera on the iPhone 6, or it might not be better at all.
It’s like comparing Burger King to McDonalds. Nobody cares. Camera’s in phones serve an entirely different purpose as ‘real’ cameras.
Or it could be leaps and bounds better. I’m betting on that one.
Its the best android based camera phone. who cares about that silly iOS anyway 😉
anymore useful info?
What’s an iPhone?
Marginally better??? No way. I expect it to be up at the level RX100, which would blow away any iPhone.
By the way; it has the Android Virus OS. I don’t care for copy-cat products !
What would you prefer it were? Blackberry? It’s not like Apple believes in any sort of world freedom so without Android, a device like this would never have appeared.
Sarcasm level: EXPERT
The problem with this thing is its size. It’s more a camera that happens to be phone than a phone that happens to be a good camera. And it runs Android…
Android is a plus. Why wouldn’t it be?
I use android myself and biggest problem with android is its support of external storage, i.e. lack of it.
then you’re using the wrong phone….
Official support by android, they dropped it a while ago. Not really a good sign, might not work as well and more devices will appear that don’t support external storage.
Android supports external storage. Google dropped microsd from nexus devices bit Google nexus != Vanilla Android.
Why is that an issue? You can put a 64Gb microSD card in it. Simple.
A plus? It has the worst design ever seen on an electronic device since windows XP, it makes my eyes cry. No, seriously, I’d rather have the iPhone and buy an LX100 instead 😉
Android can look and feel like whatever you want. It’s one of the lovely things about Android.
First thoughts: It really needs some image stabilization!
Anyone knows where the phone (earphone, mic) is this in this?
The Nokia 808 outcome looks better and its 2 years old now. What a shame Microsoft killed Nokia.
Nokia isn’t “dead”. Nokia sold its mobile division to Microsoft. The division was bleeding money without a profit (-2%) and was only negative division of Nokia. So Nokia made what should be done, sell the division off.
Nokia made mistake to take windows phone instead android and gave Samsung all the possibilities to become biggest one.
Estonian it was
I probably wouldn’t use this as an everyday phone but it could be useful when I’m on travels / business trips, more likely to encounter something new and interesting. If they could make the body a bit slimmer I’d be interested.
small difference in angle can lead into a big difference in picture, this small picture is not a proof for me
There is no need for proof, just compare an image taken with that Sony smartphone and a picture from Panasonic FZ 100 and all shall be clear.
I’m pretty sure the image quality is very good, only the price is to high for most of the people.
No it won’t…..Z1 anyways has an inferior (wanted to add an offensive word) camera which only has lots and lots of pixels with under-saturation and an over aggressive sharpening algorithm with terrible amounts of noise
Doesn’t look like a good idea after all. Large sensors in phones i mean.
Can only hope that Apple eventually releases something similar. Latest iPhone has optical image stabilization so there is hope.
Love child of the iPhone 5s and Olympus TG2: yes please
Android – bloatware, malware, adware – no thanks
What’s an iPhone? :/
Wishful thinking Apple would even waste a second to explore this when it worked so hard to shave 1mm off the thickness of a previous generation iPhone.
6 plus has a bulge for the lens, and optical image stabilization
If android finds a successful popular niche, Apple will follow
Apple doesn’t make niche smartphones, and this DMC-CM1 is seriously niche. It makes (literally) big sacrifices as a smartphone to simultaneously be a large-sensor compact. This sort of niche product would only come from a relatively obscure player like Panasonic.
I like my dumb phone and my Olympus cameras more and more!!!! 🙂
my phone bill is best .. Free phone & $47/month..AND I have great pics!!!!!!!!!!!!
My phone bill is $25 a month :).
My phone bill is $12 a month (American dollar equivalent).
that’s more than twice the price of the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom, with no zoom and no flash
Yes but it’s also 4x the IQ, the DR, the DOF control and lo and behold: it’s got RAW!
I hope this phone does well so this tech can trickle down to us plebs that can’t afford a $1,000 phone.
Most phones (iPhone, Galaxy S, etc) cost around $700-800. The $200 price that most people pay is subsidized by the 2-year cellular contract. This device is a little pricey, but it’s not THAT much more expensive if the smartphone part is as cutting edge as other Android phones.
899,- Euro HAHAHAAAA thats funny …
No 4K like other flagship smartphones , what was Panasonic thinking.
It does have 4K.
Right, 4K @15fps for stills not for 4K videos like the other flagship phones like the $349 64GB OnePlus One that does 4K UHD @30fps or DCI 4K 4096×2160 @24fps.
It shoots 4K *videos* at 15FPS.
Do you not understand that 24fps is the minimum for 4K video ?
I’m still waiting for a large sensor camera in a phone that does not make me look silly using a camera to make a phone call.
hmm the comparison of the Z1 compact and the CM1 crop in the grass looks like the Z1 is suffering from lens flare issues more than anything else
The lack of image stabilization really hurts the video. Otherwise it is a fantastic device and I am really thinking of buying one. I hope that it will at least have some built-in software stabilization.