(The two fake GH3 images)
I just found these two small pieces of images showing the possible future Panasonic GH3 camera. I am 99% sure these images are fake! If you compare it with the images of the [shoplink 16254 ebay]Panasonic GH2 (see below)[/shoplink] you see many (faked) differences. I posted this because I am sure soon these images will be all over the web and you will send me hundreds of emails asking me if these images are real. So here is my answer…no! 🙂
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No chance, blatant GH2 photoshop of the buttons, nice to dream tho!
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Fake.
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agree with @Jim – Nice use of Photoshop 🙂
Oh boy, here we go….. I just hope when real pics start to surface, they aren’t little teasers like Olympus leaked!
Come on ! Not SLR again , GH3 in Rangefinder please , like OMD or X pro !
OMD is rangefinder?
yeah…what is Yun talking about?????????
Take your rangefinder obsession someone else. If they mess with the Gh3 form factor I’ll be mad!
what a teasing ….
Weird button layout screams it
yes, its a fake!.. youll seeit on the left pic above the GPS-Text with 200% greater+higher Gamma-Value.
it’s fake , but it looks really nice 🙂
just some buttons are weird..
also what means W on the mode dial ?
and what does the aff present on the focusdail ?
a dedicated flash button looks also a bit useless, if you open the pop-up flash on the GH2 the flash turned automatic on..
Will the sensor be made by Panasonic? 😀
Will it blend?
Actually, I’ve seen the camera personally and trust me, it’s real. Some notable differences over that GH2 are the ability to shoot in 4K x 2K 60p and it also has built in ND filers. It’s to be released April 1st and comes with both the 12-35mm and 35-100 lenses for $1,500.
LOL. Shooting for the moon are we?
The 4K stuff is a bloody stretch even though it might pass but you lost your audience when you placed that price tag with both monsters included.
Sorry to call you on that, but it was pretty obvious…
rememberm there is already a 4k m4/3 cam….
I included the 2 lenses just to make sure people knew I was joking in case the April 1st date didn’t really give it away.
that’s not a joke to do… we all can do it too
Mr. Teixeira.. you are a very bad person 🙁
1st of April? 😉
ok.. I´ll take two then.. 😀
but to be honest.. I think it´s possible to have 4k video in GH3 because:
1. 4k has allready a funny samsung compact camera!
2. gh2 is capable of 1080/50 so it´s capable also on 4k@25p
3. gh3 will be way faster with the new global electronic shutter
4. if it will have 1080/50p why it shouldn´t have 4k@25p ?
5. I hope Mr. Teixeira is not joking! 😀
You’re wrong. 1080/50p doesn’t mean it’s capable of 4K@25p. You forgot the real difference between these two resolutions. 4K is actually ~4 times bigger than 1080p.
4k mens 4 tousand = 2x(1920×1080)= 3840×2160 or another 4k resolution that you can see in red scarlet which is 4096 x 2160
but if we count otherwise
full hd (2,1mpx) vs 4k (8mpx) it´s 4times more information, I forgot that.. I think I should appologize for my misleading comment, sorry 🙁
Crystal engine pro II is already capable of 4k see x900 : ”approximately equivalent to four times the pixel count of Full-HD” source : http://panasonic.net/avc/camcorder/hd/x900_series/feature1.html
and if it was on GH2 the quality will murder… now im hoppin what’s GH3 engine will be capable of !
If this are feek pictures GH3 the ar perfect inmmitations or not, I wish and hope you are right!
Too much bling bling and automatics for a seriuoss camera, i don’t buy it even if 99% real
FINALLY!
I thought the GH3 hype was never going to start!!!
Have a well deserved break @ Admin, you probably need it! 😉
If 99% fake, why even bother with time and effort to post?
cause it’s a rumors page? 😉
+1 😉
I wrote the reason. When these “leaked” pictures hit the web everyone will ask me questions about them. It easier for me to stop speculation by posting it here once.
make sense
Admin
Point Well Taken
Well…the Panasonic Marketing Department can’t start their hype campaign buy releasing puzzle-piece pictures of “their” 35mm film camera from the 70’s like Oly did! Maybe this is all they have got to “leak”? LOL!
Looks real to me. Actually those changes would make sense.
I also prefer to think these photos are real, and that there will be a different Pany “range finder” style camera with an internal EVF – a GX plus.
I agree. Really why would anyone make fake pictures of a GH3 which show so little change? I had to look twice to see the minimal differences, ie added GPS, AFF (fast AF), and a few new buttons on left top and different switched position on right. This makes sense to upgrade the HD video capability, faster AF mode, at minimal cost and to introduce the new X lenses faster. They had nothing to lose with GH2 not selling well and competition from E-D5 and N800. Surely the AFF is refering to some type of new superfast AF and possible electronic shutter for very fast shutter speeds? Makes no sense to release a picture with so little body change if not real. So most of the improvements will come from tweaks to the software to extent possible.
It also means more likely the same improvements are going into an all new rangefinder body the rangefinder style GX+ as you call it with EVF.
So, just for fun, I see three Pany M43 cameras in the next six to eight months: a GF5 with the GX1 sensor and 1080i video; a GX plus (lets call it the GXPro) with an internal EVF, the GH2 sensor, and 1080p video; and the GH3 with a new sensor and 4K video.
I would say, AFF – follow focus?
Is the GH3 meant to come out this year?Just wondering if I should splash out on the GH2 or wait a few months for this new model.
If you care about money… get a GH2. It’s gotten pretty cheap and is stillma great camera.
If money is no concern… wait for a GH3.
Or… if you can really wait… wait for the GH3 release, and then decide whether to et an ultra cheap (by then) GH2 or whether the then new GH3 is worth the premium over the GH2.
Wow! If really GH3 is getting Global Electronic Shutter, it is possible to add ND filters in it’s place…! Makes any Sense?
Hope this Happens!!!
I’ve been reading on this site that the GH2 successor will not follow until at least Photokina in September 2012.
What that GH3 camera needs, is of course a newer sensor, with not necessarily a full blown electronic shutter, but at least an electronic first curtain shutter like the Sony competition already has.
I’ve also reading, was it from a Spanish site, that there is an upcoming Panasonic model in near future.
Considering the competition from Sony NEX-7, and now Olympus E-M5, one would expect Panasonic to match soon.
My idea is therefore another camera in the recently introduced GX line up, where a new *DMC-GX2* would include what’s missing in the GX1, namely an integrated EVF that might substitute the internal flash. Panasonic hasn’t the same need for an internal flash as Olympus, which has it’s own Wireless RC Flash protocol.
This new camera would reside in the GX line up, since it’s targeted to the enthusiasts, like the GX1. It would carry the same sensor as in GX1 & E-M5 since the GH3 sensor isn’t ready yet, and the GH3 rather be first and continue on the dedicated video track.
The only thing is that Panasonic alrewady could have made the GX1 this camera. GF optics with built in EVF. But they chose not to. What should change their minds now? The OM-D is an entirely different beast, and they still have the G3, as their de-facto standard m43 camera with EVF.
If these are Photoshopped, then the author is good.
Take a look at the plate in front of the hotshoe marked “GPS”. It is wider than that on the GH2 and takes up the space where the “AVCHD” logo was. Hmmm …..
Please – Even if fake – Don’t move the video record button for a third time. It’s fine just where it is on the GH2.
That darn video button should be programmable.
I turn it off, because if you hit it by mistake you lose the custom settings you were just using. Everything else about this mock-up makes sense. If it doesn’t come to pass then I’m going to get a second GH2 – they are that good. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t a hole in the G series line-up. The G3 and GX1 are not good enough for me as a stills camera, and if Panasonic don’t come through I think Canon will in September in a nice 4:3 aspect ratio. The Fuji XPro is way over-priced, too big for what it is, the lack of swivelling screen, and the OV/EVF goofiness are strong negatives.
I always kinda wished for the record button to light red while recording or have some sort of talley lamp on the body. It’d be helpful for my b-camera
don’t need to wish GX2 to have integrated EVF, and what if GH3 will be like GX1 but with integrated EVF and with a gripe a little more bigger that would be nice…
Hoping for 1080P @ 60/50/30/25/24 FPS.
And usable 720P @ 120/60 FPS.
+1 Yes, this is absolutely necessary for the next GH and no longer a technical challenge. It also needs an option to switch from AVCHD 2.0 specification for compatibility to a Super-AVCHD high bit rate mode like the hack. It should be at least 50 Mbps 4:2:2 color like the Canon professional codecs. Why not put this in the production camera and give customers a choice of bitrate? You can stick with the standard or go for high bitrate (maybe adjustable) to get highest quality results if you aren’t interested in playing back on a consumer TV directly.
And, of course, we need built in ND filter and audio monitoring jack. Keep ISO 100!
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or maybe is more deserved on af100 succesor… it depends on panasonic view
Of course Panasonic won’T but all this in the GH3. They fear it would eat the market share for their other cameras. Which is stupid, but hey.
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720p 120fps would be really nice, but you can settle for 1080p 60fps 🙂
lets hope for the avc-ultra 25 mbps 4.2.2 codec they have had in development and said we would see on early 2013 products. although i also see that for the next af100 but we can hope
+1000. Make it a ‘pro mode’ and clearly explain on the camera that the footage will not be 100% compatible, let users choose – it’s their enthusiast model after all!
I expect improvement in photo for the GH3, i love mi GH2 for video, but I feel that for photo inst as good.
I can see you people how badly you want that , yummy , superfast , all oled, all way improved ,cinematic ,packed with some still and video goodies in a weathersealed body, paired with that nasty x lenses……. just like me! 😀
come one panny , stop teasing us… I´m putting big hopes in this little machine… you can do it right panny.. don´t disappoint us!
+1 my name say everything… hope pana is reading this :'(
Why is the GH2 14-140mm kit no longer available on most websites?
Looks real, die cast body please, save the plastic for others
lol
Photoshop CS6 in the image data.
I think it’s real! This is it. This is the moment we’ve been waiting for all our lives. Okay, maybe not, but I’m curious to see what Panasonic will bring us. I hope a new and improved 16mp sensor that defeats the old Panasonic/Olympus 16mp sensor in the noise and dynamic range departement.