We will have to wait more than one month to know price and place our preorders on the new GH4. Amazon US (Click here) reports that “we will begin accepting pre-orders on March 17, 2014“.
Meantime the readers reaction the GH4 is very positive according to our POLL. I hope Panasonic will not change our mood after the final price announcement 🙂
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And here is the GH4 Shooting Impression by Daniel Berehulak:
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I can honestly seeing the GH4 body being around the same initial price as the GH3 with 12-35mm
I hate to say it, but they can dampen a lot moods and still have a big slice of the market to themselves. As far as I know the cheapest 4k is around $25000 right now…
The cheapest 4k is the GoPro it’s about $400 but apart from that the Blackmagic is $4000.00 There are many 4k cameras way under $25K. I’d say this can’t be over $2k, probably about $1,400.00 body only.
You are right, I was looking at similarly specked cams to gh4+Interface unit. I can’t find anything like that at enthusiast pricing levels.
@anonymous
at a choppy 12.5 or 15 fps, poor colour, dynamic range, moire, chromatic aberration, etc…
I thought the admin’s earlier post about the GH4 mentioned something around 2000 usd/euro?
The Blackmagic Production Camera does 4K but it *STILL* has not been released yet!!!
So as of now, a large sensor 4K camera with interchangeable lenses is still very very *very* expensive. (I think the cheapest is the Sony FS-700 with their very expensive external 4K recorder)
But the GH4 is going to change all that! 🙂
The Gopro is in a completely different class of camera and I’d be surprised if people aren’t still waiting for the 4K Blackmagic camera well after this camera ships. So no, there are not “many 4K cameras under $25K” at all. That being said, there will probably be several other 4K cameras announced and released this year.
So Panasonic put an advertisement on Youtube for a 4K camera and didn’t bother to upload it in 4K quality? Granted this was a spot about the stills capability but it makes you wonder if it was even filmed with a GH4.
This is what you are asking for : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkAiKENYk3o
sorry.. I copied the wrong link
you can see the 4k quality via this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHKJ5eE7I1k
On another note: The Panasonic spot about Bence Máté shows the camera with what looks to be the DMW-BGGH3 battery grip used for the GH3. So that is good news for people who already own that as it looks to be compatible.
The swedish site Cyberphoto says that that it will cost about 15000 swedish crowns.
What that will be converted into dollars or euro I don’t know.
But I think you should divide that by at least 8.
15,000 Swedish Krone = about $2,300.
Ouch.
I guess you’d be paying more VAT-like taxes with that.
In Cyberphoto the Panasonic Leica Nocticron DG 42,5/1,2 is priced at 15990 sek, and like the GX7 I bought there you can divide it with 10 and i you’ll have the price in american dollar. We pay more for Panasonic in Sweden.. I guess the price will be $1499 in the US. Not to bad in that case.
Swedish VAT is 25%, so it is 15000 – 20%. Witout VAT 12000 SEK. As we have very hig prices in Sweden it will probably cost even less in the US.
Cyberphoto now have the price for the DMW-YAGH. It’s 19990 SEK, So more expensive than the camera.
The Swedish Panasonic press release accidentally included the price as did a Finnish camera store. So these leaks are already given a fairly good rough idea of the price 🙂 Which is consistent with all rumours of it being sub two thousand.
Though nothing so far has firmly indicated what is the price of the additional input/output box for the GH4, any clues? I hope it doesn’t cost as much as the GH4 itself!
What video camera did they use to shoot the 3 mini photographers documentary ( Mexico, Japan and Kenya) ?
The aesthetic looks like a Canon C100 0r C300. Why they did not use a GH4 ??
Hope to see more videos shot by GH4.
Can a videographer explain the advantage of a video-cam shaped like a dslr? I have the gf1, and prefer the smaller cams of m43 (vs FF) but the gh series seems huge. But this camera seems to be a video-guys dream as opposed to the stills quality of the em1. why make it look like a stills camera? is there a benefit? why not look more like the canon C/X series of video-cams?
Using (re-using) the GH3 body for the GH4 allows Panasonic to make more profit, which is OK with me. They don’t have to spend tons of money designing & manufacturing a new camcorder body. “Just” design the new internal hardware so it fits inside a GH3.
Also, MFT lenses make more sense on a stills or hybrid cam than they do on a video-centric camcorder. True, you can use MFT lenses on the old AF100, but pro video shooters prefer lenses designed for purpose. Pro video shooters are more willing to use “DSLR” style MFT (or adapted) lenses on a stills/hybrid cam if they can get double duty out of them by shooting stills and video.
Panasonic may have also calculated that they’ll sell more GH4 cams than if they put similar tech inside a camcorder body. Interestingly, they may also do the latter, too: I suspect they’ll announce a 4K camcorder to directly compete with Sony’s AX100 at the NAB 2014 expo in early April. Plus other 4K cams that sell for considerably more and less.
In other words, big companies like Panasonic tend to make many variations of products based on similar tech, at widely varying price points, eventually. Just depends on how long you’re willing to wait vs. what you actually need right now.
meh, i bought a gh3 at launch. 6-8 months later, $500 discount.
i’m a wait. if its coming out in march, i expect a big discount by november/december.
been a big supporter of panasonic cams, but they just don’t hold value.
The value is in the photos/videos/memories you capture…priceless
Yours look quite crappy tho…
Haha, många svenskar som hänger här 🙂