After the GH4 Panasonic launched the next 4K camera. But this time it’s a proper camcorder and has PL mount instead of the GH4’s MFT mount. it also features a Super 35mm CMOS sensor and it’s interesting to read what they added on that camera compared to the GH4!
Here are the main specs of the camera (Courtesy: Nofilmschool):
4096 x 2160 Super 35mm CMOS sensor
14+ Stops of Dynamic Range
PL Mount
Internal 4K up to 120fps
Records 4K & UHD in AVC-ULTRA 4K
Records 2K & HD in AVC-Intra 100/200
Capable of 4K RAW
1.5 to 6 Mbps Proxies
Two expressP2 card slots (Record 130 minutes of 4K/24p with these cards)
Two microP2 card slots (for HD and 2K)
Four 3G-HD-SDI Outputs for 4K QUAD
Two 3G-HD-SDI Outputs for RAW
HD-SDI out for monitoring (down-converting from 4K)
Two XLR inputs can record four channels of 24-bit, 48KHz audio
Removable Control Panel
OLED Viewfinder with Optical Zoom
Availability: Fall 2014
Price: TBA
Really a beast of the camera that could compete against the giants of the movie industry like Arri or Sony!
News found via FDtimes, Nofilmschool
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PL!?! What a missed opportunity! A dedicated m4/3 video sensor for 1080 or 4K at a third the price and weight of the S35 cams is so waiting to happen. All that amazing M4/3 glass just waiting for a true vid cam. If the GH4 can already rival Arri, BM and Red in IQ using a 16 MP photo sensor, what would a sensor built purely for video be able to achieve? 14 stops of DR with great low light capability? Me thinks so. This is what the “bigger is better” mentality of the US market has done. The whole world has embraced m4/3 but the US loves FF DSLR’s like it did Cadillacs. Nuts.
PL a missed opportunity? Who do you think this camera is made for? Not you or I. This is a very high end professional camera and will be priced accordingly. The PL mount is the professional video standard and a much stronger mount that can carry very heavy lenses unlike the m4/3 mount. Also a m4/3 mount is too small an image circle to have a s35 sized sensor.
The technology in this camera will filter down into consumer camera, the GH5 will probably carry a lot of this technology in a m4/3 mount. Until then the GH4 will produce more then enough quality for the consumer.
+100 . . . Say On!
What have you smoked? Next, M43 will be president of the USA.
$12k
“Really a beast of the camera that could compete against the giants of the movie industry like Arri or Sony!”
When did Sony become a giant of the movie industry?
Arri, Panavision Alexa, Red ( for indies) yes, Sony, not so much
Either way this looks interesting. Glad Panny is going after it. Why is it that these are always photographed in deep dark limbo? 🙂
I don’t know, seems to be pretty much in F55 territory. Obviously RED and Arri as well. I’m guessing the price of this will be north of 20k. Definitely doesn’t make sense throwing a consumer mFT lens mount and smaller sensor when they want to compete with everyone else that takes PL and has S35 sensors. This is exactly what panasonic needed to play at these levels!
F55 it’s a hell of a camera. You may missed to read about it 🙂
And So It Begins… Hopefully 14 stops of DR is the new sensor benchmark that Panny adopts across their video product spectrum.
WOW!! True 4K instead of the nonsense 3840 “consumer standard”
4K at 120fps, RAW, 14 stops DR….
This is going to be interesting 🙂
And yes, Sony is a competitor. They custom made a few 2K cams for Lucas filming Star Wars ep1, 2 & 3 in the early millennium. Full RGB workflow throughout w/o color space conversion error/distortion
What type of software supports such hi end format?? GOSH!!!
Too big a beast for me. I don’t have a film crew. GH4 will be fine for my needs…
This site seems very heavy on news and very light on rumors as of late…
Well we just had the E-M10 and GH4 rumor time. Are you that much addicted that you cannot rest for two weeks? You want me to send some fake rumors to make you happy for a couple of hours? 🙂
It just seems to me that there used to be more FT2 or FT3 rumors, which were fun even if they turned out to be a little off.
FT2: Canon expected to release M43 8K videocam following rumored company sale to Panasonic.
For $1
There are more rumours, its just that Disqus does not display them.
Comparing this camera to the F55 is a mistake. It should be compared to the F5.
In 3 – 4 years these specs would be in a small body like GH3, just wait and see.
Again: No IBIS, no buy Panasonic. 😛
Hi, is thi the so awaited update/successor to the af100a ? I some doubts about this one.
A “proper” camcorder? AS opposed to the “improper” camcorder that is the GH4?
I’m so sad that Panasonic fell off the walkway. That’s what comes of praising the video quality of the GH2 too highly. All of a sudden Panasonic forgets that people also want PICTURE cameras. The real regret is the lessened competition to Olympus, and the risk that Olympus may also fall off.
I am afraid your “proper” camera is your own personal hangup. Here is the bad news for you, (good news for everyone else).
Video is here to stay. Olympus, Fuji, Nikon and to a lesser extent Canon are all feeling the pressure that the GH4 and 4K video are exerting on the entire industry.
Life doesn’t stand still, neither does technology. Sometimes when I am doing street photography, a performance happens, there is music, sound, action; all which is not captured “properly” by a still photo. It’s so handy to have that little red button there for those “proper” occasions and one-time performances.
As a GH3 owner I can say that it is a wonderful option to be able to shoot HD video or dazzling photographs with just one camera.
Anyway, that’s the future, hope you can adjust.
You surely are an uncopable know-it-all. Do you take dazzling pictures? I doubt it, they normally require a brain.
‘El yeah, I like to think I take some dazzling pictures. Some not so dazzling but it’s all fun, right? You show me yours, honey, I’ll show you mine. 😉
Forget about knocking him. I just get a little peeved when the specs list is written by someone who seems to live in his own little world when they write “Availability: Fall 2014”. Fall? I guess that means Autumn! Northern hemisphere or southern? Again, that can mostly mean it was written by a Northern American (includes Canada). So does that mean availability will be in the 3rd quarter of 2014? If so, it would have been nice if they thought about who’s reading this & written accordingly (that’s if know there is a world beyond their shores).
Wow, calm down, ‘Fall’ is the word Panasonic said in their press release.
The last time I checked, Europe, 2/3 of Africa and most of Asia are located in the Northern Hemisphere.
Could not have said it better myself.
Well, THANK YOU Guilio!
Hey man, you really are one of my “Hybrid Heroes”. Thanks for all the great work you are doing to promote Hybrid Photography and for the inspiration you provide to MANY m4/3 users!
Dan the deluded
The GH4 is not a proper camcorder, because it’s not a camcorder at all. It’s a hybrid stills/video camera. And the GH series was always intended to be hybrid stills/video cameras. Panasonic marketed the GH1 as such, and then they improved both the stills and video capabilities with each successive model. And all along they have made cameras primarily targeted at stills shooters (G, GF, GX and GM series, and not to forget the fixed-lens LX), even though the video quality of some of those is quite impressive too.
So it’s not like Panasonic “fell off the walkway”. They do make “picture cameras”, and the video features included in those take nothing away from the photographic capabilities. I’m not particularly interested in video myself, but I don’t complain about my cameras having video. I realize that there is huge demand, from both amateurs and professionals, for cameras that is competent at both stills photography and video, so that’s where the camera market is heading.
If I have to go back to CaniSoNikon because Oly and Pana have begun thinking that their cameras are camcorders, I will. I will not buy Olympus’ version of a GH4.
Get ready to go on a BIG spending spree!
Panasonic has long been a big player in video. Canon has also been merging the tech big time. It doesn’t hurt the still features.
Panasonic has been in the camcorder business much longer than either Canon, Sony, or Nikon, child. Know your history.
Yes this is a proper camera with a proper sensor. Pana nows that pro’s do not want a tiny toy m43 sensor.
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Thanks for posting this Admin! I hadn’t heard about this camera yet.
Too expensive!! Why didnt they just update the next AF100????