Blunty posted his full GH4 review and he quite loves the camera! he also shared a 4K video on Youtube. And finally the GH4 is also shipping in Europe. A first batch of GH4 cameras arrived in Europe too and is in Stock for example via [shoplink 46107 ebay]eBay[/shoplink] and in a small German Store (via DL). Readers told me that also in Holland the GH4 is shipping.
North American preorders, shipping date and price:
GH4 camera at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Ritz Camera and Panasonic. Price: $1,698. In Canada at Vistek.
GH4 camera with interface unit at Adorama and BHphoto. Price: $3,298
Interface unit only at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. Price: $1,998
Europen preorders, shipping date and price:
Germany: Wexcameras, Marcotec-shop.de.
UK at Wexphotographic, CameraWorld, UKdigital, CVP, TipTop.
Holland at Fotohanskeuzekamp.
Belgium at Fotokonijnenberg.
Norway at Fotovideo.
Sweden at Cyberphoto, Skandinavianphoto.
Finland at Telefoto, Topshot, Verkkoauppa.
France at Photocineshop.
Spain: Fotoboom.
Asian preorders, shipping date and price:
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Some comments on 4k video:
http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/the-cost-of-4k.html
I’m sorry but that must be the most insipidly stupid article I have ever had the misfortune of being directed to read. He makes 3 bullet points and all of them are utterly wrong. 1) The price of the top U3 cards, even the panasonic ones, is less than half what he states. Dumb. 2) What is he smoking? Why edit in Prorez? I don’t know about other programs but Premiere works in it’s own 32bit floating point space – there is no work flow that gives better video quality than just using the original. Dumb. Dumb. 3) A new mac book pro would probably be needed if playing around with stupidly big files. Not needed with the kind of files produced by smart phone cameras, action cams, and the GH4. Dumb dumb dumb.
San disk 95MB/s has a limit of 760mbps shooting. Tremendous that the people confuse Byte with bit
Outstanding GH4 testimonial from SOMEONE WE CAN TRUST. Blunty tells it like it IS. Slightly understated but full of enthusiasm. The Panasonic GH4 is definitely a game changer! Blunty, (usually very sympathetic to Olympus cameras such as E-M1), is obviously thrilled with the performance of the Panasonic GH4.
Blunty is a RESOURCE we in the M4/3 community have come to rely on, and he, (like Giulio Sciorio and many others) are high on the GH4, are seeing this awesome new camera for it’s potential to change our Hybrid Photo/Videography for good. Combined with excellent quality lenses from World Class Optics makers including Leica the GH4 will redefine our expectations from a camera. Canon 4K cameras are $3,000.00 to $5000.00 higher in price and yet deliver sub-GH4 video performance. Olympus will find itself playing catch-up with the Panasonic GH4 in the video category which Oly has stubbornly refused to develop.
Like Blunty and Giulio have declared; The Panasonic GH4 is TRULY a game changer. I can’t wait to get mine!
I like Blunty’s reviews, I always check his channel for reviews on lenses and such. I wish he did more compare and contrast versus similar lenses/cameras though but he usually hits the same points so you can just watch each video and compare for yourself. He’s definitely one of the better video reviewers on Youtube. David Thorpe’s not bad too but he doesn’t do a lot of new ones I think, I’ve checked him out for older lenses that I was looking to purchase from a year or so ago.
SOMEONE WE CAN TRUST??? Get real Mr Vanity!! I know of people BLUNTY has viciously ABUSED!!!
you are deluded clown
Why wouldn’t they make the camera with image stabilization? That seems like such a weird thing to leave out. As if they were like, “let’s make a fantastic camera but let’s also take out this one feature that we know will make a lot of consumers second guess the purchase”. My guess is the intentionally left it out to add to the GH5 next year.
I don’t agree. Folks have made such a big fuss about 5-axis-IBIS that anything less than brilliant IBIS by Panasonic would receive lots of negative comments. There are many stabilized Pany lenses available. For general shooting purposes there is hardly a way around the recommendable 10 – 140mm which brings good stabilization. Given the fairly low price tag of the GH4 I don’t think that an investment in decently priced glas will be a major problem.
Large data readout come with a lot of heat, hot sensor need heat sink, you can’t move the sensor with the heatsink around. Do you guys are that naive to think there’s no trade off for 4k?
PS: If I need IS, I will just buy the gymbal system with anti-vibration mount, my friend build 3 axis gymbal last year for the GH2 on multicopter with just $250. If you just need antivibration mount then it could be very cheap with those rubber ball joints.
please someone confirm that Olympus MFT lenses with built in image stabilization will retain the stabilization ability when used on GH4
Olympus m4/3 lenses don’t have built in stabilization. Olympus uses sensor stabilization instead. Only Panasonic uses lens stabilization.
yawn…the guy is a self promoting arsehole……
You are “viciously abusing” someone you don’t know because he likes different cameras than you. Like “Chevy vs Ford” only stupider and without any relevance to rational people.
Because you are rational?
Yeah, so funny when they are so worthless. Like all the trolls who are go9ing to write that M43 is the best in town. And, of course, it’s not.
Well when I see Blunty’s video I do not see any of the ‘brilliant,brilliant’ video quality, I do however see the missing of IBIS. If the GH4 had IBIS, the framerate options of this GH4, the price of the GH2 at the cost of having only 1080p not 4k, only then this would be a brilliant machine!
A LOAD OF CRAP