508 Megabytes of GX8/FZ300 press text can be now downloaded at Wetransfer (Click here). Preorders here:
Black GX8 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. In Eu at WexUK.
Silver GX8 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. In Eu at WexUK.
FZ300 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic.
Two new lens press text on 43rumors.
Here is also a new Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8 Quick Overview from Nick Driftwood:
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One more thing:
Mark Baber and Jessops organized special Amabassador meetings in UK:
14 x UK Lumix G Ambassadors supporting each retail preview day including Casey Gutteridge, Jacob James, Steven Clarey, Nick Driftwood and small number of our UK Brand Development Team including Carol Hartfree, David McKowen & Martin Smith.
26 x Key UK retailers approached and supported with GX8 and Ambassador.
Up to 3 retail shops visited every day from Friday 17th July.
Key UK areas covered, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff.
Jessops Photo Festival (2 weeks), London Camera Exchange, Park Cameras, Wilkinson Cameras & Pansonic Store highlighted.
Ambassadors purpose of visit to preview GX8 and give the chance to the customer to pre-order.
From Friday 17thPlease visit Jessops website for more details.
Then from Friday 31st July independent retailers will be visited.
Casey Gutteridge is at Cameraworld
Nick Driftwood is at Panastore Southampton
Martin Smith is at Camera Centre Dublin
On Saturday 1st August
Casey Gutteridge is at Park Cameras London
Nick Driftwood is at Park Cameras Burgess Hill
Steven Clarey is at Cambrian Photography
On Sunday 2nd August
Nick Driftwood is at Park Cameras Burgess Hill
Ian Cook is at Wilkinson Cameras Preston
On Friday 7th August
Casey Gutteridge is at Jessops Oxford Street
Amy Davies is at Castle Cameras
Ian Cook is at LCE Cheltenham from 9-1, LCE Bath 2-4pm
Steven Clarey is at Carmarthen Cameras
On Saturday 8th
Casey Gutteridge is back at Cameraworld London
Ian Cook is at Wilkinson Liverpool
Martin Smith is at Bermingham Cameras 9-12, Conns Cameras 1-4
Steven Clarey is at Clifton Cameras
39 Responses
I love the M43 system. It is everything I’d hoped mirrorless would be after my initial misstep with a Sony NEX7. The size, the speed, the lenses, the variety of body styles, and the FUN FACTOR have left my Canon gear on the shelf, untouched for a few years.
This new Panasonic GX8 looks to be the new high watermark for M43. I would buy one today instead of my Olympus EM1 or my EP5. I’m not a pro videographer and much prefer the rangefinder-style good looks and left side EVF over Panasonic’s functional but homely (to me) GH4 as well.
The jump in resolution keeps M43 in the running in the new megapixel race, but probably not for long. I’m most eager to see how the new high ISO performs, and how the dynamic range compares to the latest Sony A7Rii. And if the AF tracking can beat the rumored A7000.
I’d buy the GX8 instead of the other M43 cameras today, but probably won’t buy it in addition to the ones that still serve me well. It really seems that M43 has hit that maturation point where even “big” improvements will be evolutionary.
So as sacrilegious as this is, and as often as I’ve railed against sensor size mattering to family and friends, I really do believe it is time for Panasonic (and Olympus) to ADD NEW LINEUPS of FF (or bigger!) cameras to their offerings IN ADDITION TO, NOT INSTEAD OF M43.
The camera I’d buy in addition to my current EM1/EP5/RicohGR set looks just like this GX8, but is FF. It is an interchangeable lens version of the Leica Q, but with a “pro Panasonic” price, not a luxury item price.
This camera would have a high megapixel, BSI sensor, like the A7Rii, a new FF mount that could also use existing M43 lenses with fast AF in a crop mode yielding 12-16 mp images. It would have high burst rate, blazingly fast AF, adapters for legacy glass from any vintage manufacturer, and Panasonic’s awesome 4K.
Fantasy? Sony’s already getting there? Heresy? So be it. I’m ready for a larger sensor mirrorless. Not necessarily to replace my M43, in addition to it. And if Panasonic and Olympus want big growth again, they’ll add a new lineup to take my money. I don’t trust Sony. But the pull is increasingly strong…
Man, you just copied & pasted your dpreview comment, didn’t you?
Or maybe he copied his 43rumors comment. Sounds serious. I guess I need to take a look on Dpreview and compare the two versions to see if they are really 100% identical.
I am not spilling a drop of milk over it, but if you don’t find it amusing then I guess that’s confirmation of my curious sense of humor!
Oh! I appreciate a curious sense of humor, but i have to admit I needed to take another look to get it. It suddenly is amusing, it just depends on the tone you add when reading it. 😉
Even so, wasn’t my comment almost as amusing?
Oh, it is, I just wanted to make sure you didn’t think I’m more of a blowhard than I actually am. 🙂
Must not take chances with such important opinions. We’ll never know if Panasonic and Olympus management decide future product development based on 43rumors comments OR based on DPReview comments. Posting both way is the safest bet to assure realisation of one’s desires.
This would be a different system, with the need of a new lens line up. Too expensive in R&D in my opinion.
There are already FF for the masses, quality comes at a cost though.
What I would like to see is a new sensor performance, a real step forward, but obviously this would apply also to bigger sized sensor systems, from apsc to medium format.
I think we are too greedy, we always want more without really needing that: how could we dare to take photos 4,5,10 years ago? 🙂
If you want FF, why not just buy A7*? Even Pany, Oly release FF camera, it’s not going to use the M43 mount. Besides M43 to e-mount adapter is cheap.
Just get it over with and go Sony if you want FF mirrorless. Even if there were another manufacturer in this space they wouldn’t come close to a complete system for years. Even Sony isn’t there yet, although as the first ones to be in this space they obviously have a good head start.
Unfortunately TANSTAAFL applies here as with everything in life. No one system will do it all, ever. So pick your poison and be happy. Jumping around will just add stress. The grass isn’t really greener once you get to the other side, no matter what that “other side” is.
Sold!!!
In the middle of the page at http://photobyrichard.com/reviewbyrichard/panasonic-lumix-gx8-review/ there is a magnified comparison with OMD EM5II at 26K ISO,and I can not see any reduced resolution compared to the GX8 . Is the 20MP is not that big a deal or is the Olly firmware so much better?
16 to 20 is marketing.
man im so sold on this camera… after seeing the vid reviews, looks like a beast.
A bit off topic but what caught my attention is how GX7’s ISO 25600 seems cleaner than that of the G7 in Richard’s review (http://photobyrichard.com/reviewbyrichard/panasonic-lumix-gx8-review/).
“ISO 25600 100% crop JPG comparison. From left to right: Olympus OMD EM5 II, Panasonic G7, Pansonic GX7, Panasonic GX8. Notice the black in the GX8 crop remain the most black without any colour cast.”
A JPEG “noise comparison” is worthless… far too much processing in camera to determine anything.
Hope he has turned off noise reduction, as I do with my cameras. But you are right!
Agreed. Will wait for RAW images before pixel peeping. The best we can say right now is there don’t appear to be any significant drawbacks to the extra 4MP at high ISO.
Yeah, about a half dozen variables at play here with jpegs
1. size comparisons w EM1, GH4
http://j.mp/1e2nBuF
2. Panasonic has a cool video explaining the dual stabilization:
Quite impressive.
BUT….how good is the IBIS fr a non-stabilised lens such as Olympus make?
Not as good as Olympus’s IBIS.
based on?
My crystal ball.
Unfortunately I suspect you are right – rather than improve on the IBIS in the GX7 they may well have found a way for OIS and IBIS to work together.
Bigger than E-M1 (which is not a small m43), that s ridiculous
This is nonsensical. It could be smaller, it could be bigger. But being MFT has nothing to do with it.
Size relative to the sensor??? Look at the size of most APS -C:
MFT have to be small, it s their raison d’etre
And it is. All APS DSLR cameras are much larger than this. And for those who need a really small camera there’s other options.
Add a zoom lens, standard or tele and the size difference is 3-4 fold.
no
GIVE ME THIS CAMERA NOW!!!!
Size comparison of GX7 and GX8 http://j.mp/1HRnhqp#sthash.bzElzCWG.dpuf
The GX8 is a little large for my taste. Here’ a comparison with the Leica M3 http://j.mp/1HRpvWB#sthash.bzElzCWG.dpuf
As noted the GX8 body size is actually just a bit smaller than the $4000 M3 with similar build titanium body.
The comparison I like most would be the GX8 vrs the LX100 which is the size I hope Pany will make their next ILC
I really like the GX8 and love M43 lenses. However, I am not a video
guy so the 4K features are not meaningful to me. Judging it as a stills
camera, the price of over GBP 1000 is crazy! This is more expensive
than all other APS-C mirrorless I can think of and only marginally less
expensive than Sony A7ii.
Of course the price won’t stay up here for long… but still!!
Cant judge a product on the release price. It is high but will settle. But there’s a cost to obtaining a novel sensor and new tech on day one, and apparently that upcharge is $200-300 today. My bet is $999 by December where it will probably stay for 2016.
“CN” is right. That´s the MSRP / release price. Even when it´s available it´s maybe cheaper already. Or wait a few weeks after it´s widely available (the prices will fall quite fast below or to around 1000$ / 1000€). Especially after or before Sony will release the A7000 / new APS-C top model the price will fall significantly. ^^
Why IBIS if it isn’t for video?
There’s already good Pana OIS, at significant lens cost/size/weight?
Why do we need mediocre IBIS as well?
Who’s taking all these blurred pictures?
Seems all that GX8 offers over GX7 is ‘4K photo’, so I can take a crappy 8MB jpeg from video.
I doubt the new Sony sensor is better. The GH4 sensor is excellent for RAW files, DR etc.
I’m seriously losing confidence in Panasonic.
We’d love to have IBIS so we can use adapted lenses for video.
The Olympus EM1 is smaller (except for a bit of the flash). Nuff said. GX was supposed to occupy the perfect middle ground for size. I know that many don’t seem to care about size, but the tiny GM5 is not the equivalent to what the GX7 or GX1 was.