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Image on top shows the [shoplink 52750 ebay]current G6[/shoplink].
Just got word the Panasonic G7 will be announced around May 19. Don’t know if that is the exact date because it depends from the timezone where the source lives š
FT5 specs so far are:
– Panasonic G7 announcement in mid may
– 16MP sensor (same as th one used by the GX7
– 4K recording
– no DFD
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Amazing how few details have made it out of the factory so far. Maybe there’s just nothing more to say on the matter? But that’s OK, it’s an incremental improvement over the G6, that’s fine.
Panasonic has just failed to keep the title of most innovative camera maker. How sad.
Innovation & Breakthrough are for premier products such as GX & GM .
The G is not in this categories .
Innovation is for the GH line and Panasonic certainly has nor disappointed.
The camera isn’t out yet, and you are mourning already.
Yun is correct – this is not Panasonic’s vehicle for innovation.
Ahum…..G1 very much was the pinnacle of innovation in mirrorless cams…
They really never had that title, just “one of the most innovative” and even if they did, they’ve lost nothing by releasing the G7.
So it’s basically a G6 with 4k. How exciting….
Wrong .
You have to include that top GX7 sensor as well .
Ok, so it’s a GX7 with a G6 body and 4k, now I am really excited!
Nope: sensor is much better. And DFD is not needed per se. My 45 mm f1.8 Oly focusses almost as fast and as good as the best (12-35 and 35-100 f2.8) Panny lenses for AF-c. yet the Oly cannot use DFD. So I am hopefull the lack of DFD will not hamper the G7 too much.
Although the 45/1.8 cannot be labeled as a slow focusing lens on Panasonic bodies Iām not very happy with its focusing speed on G5.
You miss the point…it works very will with Gh4. It is not the lens that is at fault on yiur g5….While oly 45 cannot use dfd it works great for tracking action. So those lamenting the lack of dfd in g7 might not realise that gh4 great afc with some lenses is not because of dfd…
As @JĆørgen and @Yun said:
http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-GX7-versus-Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-G5___901_816
If the GH4 had a similarly beautiful design it would be the ideal camera. Hope the GH5 will evolve in this direction as well and will adopt something different than the boring classical Canikon (semi)pro DSLR look the GH3/GH4 currently has.
I very much like the Gh4 design, the only thing I wish improved is weather sealing.
How so? I have used it extensively in the Scoottish dreich this february for landscaping and it had no hickups whatsoever…
Frankly I’m afraid to use it in bad weather, the SD dor, the 12-35mm 2,8 do not look very weather sealed at all. I used it mayly for video work so normally I protect the rest of the gear from getting moisture (like mics, video lights, stabilizing systems etc), but to be honest when I compare it with D800 + a pro Nikon lens it feels very un weather sealed.
Don’t forget the size allows for a larger battery with (for ILC especially) excellent batterylife far exceeding the competition. Also: larger body allows for much better heat dissipation.
So what you’re saying is the multi decade reign of the DSLR/SLR form factor was a severe limiting factor in the production of awesome photos and film?
The GH4 is significantly smaller and lighter than it’s DSLR predecessors, and provides tons of functionality to boot.
I know everyone wants a revolutionary remake similar to what Sony did with the A7 series, but the ergonomics of that camera really sucks!
Do you think the brilliant ergonomics of GH4 would suffer if the body was a bit more elegant ā like the two-coloured G6?
No, but I don’t buy cameras as art, I create art with them, so I could care less what color it was if it performed.
With that said, if they offered the GH4 in this two toned paint job you lust for, I’d surely stay with black.
I just prefer my articles for personal and professional use to look good, aside of their functionality. GH4 doesnāt look bad at all but lacks that ādesign X-factorā both GX7, G6 and GM1 have. Pity, isnāt it?
Then get the GX7, G6 and GM1 with the ādesign X-factorā. Me like many others, very much like the GH4 design and bigger size.
There is just 1 minor problem: the above doesnāt have the GH4 functionality.
And let me ask again: would a little fancier design diminuate any of the current qualities of the GH4 body (performance, ergonomics)?
YES!
Mainly the performance, doesnāt it? š
For the performance and ergonomics. I personally want a bigger and more robust body but definitively not smaller!
OMG. Youāve totally misunderstood me.
I do speak about design (shape, colors) and definitely NOT about size. A big(ger) body also can be nicely designed, canāt it?
I don’t understand what’s you problem with GH4 design, the ergonomics are good and it looks just fine IMO. I don’t see any ādesign X-factorā in any of the small cameras you’ve mentioned. GM1 is nice because it’s really small, GX7 is very uninteresting for me and G6 although nice, looks and feels like a small toy.
I only wish for a pro weather sealing and a bigger (more prominent) record button (is hard to press), but I still can enjoy the Gh4 as it is.
Design = aesthetical category here. E.g. an Alfa Romeo is much more beautiful than ā say ā an Audi or BMW. The functionality is just near to perfect.
I have absolutly no problem with GH4 aesthetically, on the contrary.
In this case everything is OK:
All this talk about the new G6 using the same sensor as the GX7. How does the GX7 sensor compare to the sensor in the GH4?
oops, I meant the G7, not the G6
You tell me: http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-GH4-versus-Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-GX7___943_901
Seems like manufacturers have cut way back on the number of cameras they release and the prices stay high much longer. Way more boring than it used to be.
Yawnfest.
This camera will end up being heavily discounted and on the bargain shelf and may be worth looking at but it holds zero interest for me, it’s just another half heated Panasonic G series camera.
Panasonic seems to be digging themselves a hole this year. It’ll be interesting to see what they come out with in 2016 to spring themselves back out
I know Pany has not allowed hardly any details to leak out on G7 but as with GF7 there were a lot of changes made after all. What I am interested in is won’t inclusion of 4K capability mean the G7 will have an all new metal body for heat dissipation?
Does the LX100 have a metal body?
Yes it does : http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/panasonic-lx100/panasonic-lx100A.HTM
The LX100 is actually a combination of stamped steel and plastic components, but regardless it still has a premium feel compared to most other compacts.
yes it does.
4k ?
I have seen somewhere than the GH4 4k output 4:2:0 could be somehow downsampled to a 1080p 10bits 444 (RGB).Has anyone tested that to see if that approximate well ?
4K 4:2:0 8bit is 1080p 4:4:4 – 10 bit as long as you do know how to downsample.
Very much so. If you bring the 4K into premiere, the conversion is easy. Dave Dugdale has a tutorial on just that.
could someone please explain what is the “DFD” that the G7 will not have?
It stands for daffodil… the lovely flower… http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daffodil
But Panasonic stopped including auto focus for flowers since the GF5…
Oh those were the days…
Here is an example of DFD:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daffodil#/media/File:Narzisse.jpg
It’s the new autofocus added in the GH4 camera. Please check google.
“Depth From Defocus”. Not sure why everyone thinks they need to be a comedian. A technique used to increase autofocus speed.
Panny you don’t have the market share nor the marketing nor the retail presence needed to play the ‘withhold features’ game of Canon and Nikon. I’ve waited for the G7 for a long time and no DFD? no sale! com’on
Panny, stop playing footsie with Nikon and Canon and release something
that’ll kick the D5500 and T6i/s to the stinking curb in features,
performance and price. BTW, the next sensor is 20MP. Sony has a 20MP 4/3 sensor. The 16MP sensor in the G7 is old and so is the AF system. Bad move Panny. No sale (unfortunately).
G7 is the entry level Panasonic camera, it’s supposed to lack certain functions to differentiate it from the more expensive GH line.
Please, go buy a cheep Rebel T6i or a D5500 from Nikon and then complain about lack pro AF (from their top of the line cameras), ask for 4K video, heck even ask Canon for a proper FHD (decent in resolution, with no moire and aliasing). LOL
Really? As far as I remember even G5 has been advertised as a midrange camera. G3 and GF7 are entry level ones.
GF series are the entry level for small size mirrorless, the G series are entry level for DSLR like mirrorless from Panasonic.
Stop dreaming, you won’t get GH4 features and performance for 1/2-1/3 of the price!
I need just DFD and a good sensor, I donāt care at all about video, 720p is more than enough for me. So we cannot talk about āI want Gh4 performance, not speaking about the weather sealing.
If you need faster focusing buy the GH4 or EM1, it’s as simple as that.
Ad I will get pro and expensive video features which I donāt need them at all.
In which part I wrote about EM1 you did not get?
Ask Olympus to give you it’s top of the line AF in a cheaper camera… O I forgot, they aren’t giving that away ether. š