Panasonic GH2 1:1 crop mode MACRO from Andrew Reid.
Andrew Reid from EosHD posted the first part of the Canon 60D versus Panasonic GH2 Review. He pays a particular attention to the crop mode: “1:1 crop mode enables you to change between a portrait field of view and extreme telephoto at the press of a button, and the telephoto view comes without sacrificing detail (quite the opposite!) and maintains the aperture of the lens, so a Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 for example becomes a Zeiss 400mm F1.4 yet for $500 and the size of a beer can.”
Andrew finds the video quality of the GH2 better than the 60D: “What is frustrating for Canon now, is that the GH2 is going to go pretty much unchallenged on the market for a good few months. Even the Canon 5D Mark II has a sensor which is really crippled by poor image processing relative to the GH2, so you will get a much higher resolved and more detailed image from the GH2 than on the 5D Mark II. And it’s not just detail – dynamic range, colour – everything suffers if the image processing is not up to snuff.”
Thanks Andrew for posting the review but your conclusion makes us even more crazy that we can’t buy the GH2 yet! Right now you can only buy the japanese GH2 on [shoplink 17664]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. And there is one more bad news for US readers: Amazon changed the Panasonic 100-300mm availaibility status to “This item will be released on January 1, 2011“. I hope that’s just a mistake because european stores like Amazon Deutschland and Amazon UK already do have the lens in Stock and even [shoplink 17618 ebay]eBay has some of them on auction[/shoplink].
Hi Saabbilly. If you have some interesting Olympus news send it to me. I havn’t found anything recently (a part some E-5 reviews I already posted here).
Let’s face it: Oly marketing doesn’t like us much, the customers. They still can’t grok what they have really said/hadn’t said on the Photokina. It’s like their marketing department can’t read English or simply too arrogant to read what press is writing about them.
Pannay is where development happens now. And Pannay rumor treadmill too allows to peek into what Oly (and others) can offer us in the future. So I personally am pretty fine with following the company where the actual developments happen.
Or should @Admin report weekly Oly stock market performance? For I gather that are only news about Olympus. That would turn the site into a rather boring place….
Joking aside, I think they are working hard on new m4/3 cameras and lenses, but just not letting as many rumors out as Panasonic, who, like Sony, have realized the power an Internet rumor has in product arrival buildup.
P.S. From the RTFA:
> There is an adapter coming soon which allows AF, OIS and aperture control on the GH2 with Canon EF, EFS and L series lenses.
It’s not only the hell – the whole world as we know it comes to an end. Take off your tinfoil hats and trade your human-child-shields for a m43 camera!
Such an adapter would be a huge boost to m4/3. Only some wides would be missing, the rest would be already there … Although, I doubt those PDAF optimized lenses would AF quickly.
You sure about that? Canon seem to hold onto their mount specs pretty closely. Although I suppose if they aren’t planning a mirrorless that would compete with m43 anytime soon, they’d figure they may as well make some money out of lenses.
Whoever made this adapter (I am still not 100% convinced it is not vaporware) probably had to reverse engineer the mount and protocols.
You know, like Sigma, Tokina and Tamron had to do 30 years ago.
There probably just wasn’t any economic incentive for anyone to do this in the past until m43 arrived and adapted lenses became a photographic obsession/phenomenon ;).
Back on topic, the GH2 is looking pretty boss for video. Admins, keep the news and rumors coming!
It’s called trolling. A widespread phenomenon on internet forums. Some people simply have too much time on their hands and so they spend hours on forums where they can be brats yet remain anonymous.
I think they were just over keen to have the most pixels & now are paying for it.
” Right now you can only buy the japanese GH2 on eBay (Click here). And there is one more bad news for US readers: Amazon changed the Panasonic 100-300mm availaibility status to “This item will be released on January 1, 2011“. I hope that’s just a mistake because european stores like Amazon Deutschland and Amazon UK already do have the lens in Stock and even eBay has some of them on auction.”
Maybe the US$ needs to gain in value so they can still sell at their prefered price, in other words, US Panasonic probably can’t afford to import above a certain price because they can’t afford to raise the price to be competitive in the US, so sorry US people, I guess you will have to wait. 🙂 That’s my theory anyhow. Sorry, but I’ve been enjoying the buying power of the Australian dollar recently. One man’s loss is anothers gain. 😉
Panasonic is definitely doing their best to make m43 work. If the video part is successful, we are sure to see some high quality (and fast) primes coming. Hopefully, Olympus can come up with something exciting too.
Semi ignoring most posts above, what I enjoy is that Panasonic are obviously working actively with the internet community on the GH2 development and marketing. They realise that things are different now. They hire the Russian hacker rather than prosecute him, and they use a (originally) Canon forum to test and market their product.
Also, they have somehow brokered peace between the video and still camera divisions of their own company, it looks like the GH2 is really being worked on by both sets of engineers. Big ask for a Japanese company.
Sure, as an Olympus user now, I would like to see something better coming from them as well, but the argument for buying a GH2 is just getting stronger. If Panasonic also bring out the GP1(?), as a solid step between the GF2 and GH2, I could see myself with two Panasonic bodies. Especially if Olympus doesn’t learn that what a focus assist light is about……..
It seems like GH2 has a big improvement over GH1 in terms of software, even though many of them seems like could have been applied to GH1 with a firmware update. However hardware part was not so satisfactory. I hope GH3 will be a big leap over GH1 and GH2 also in terms of hardware, not only in software.
I get it. He´s talking about HD video. Otherwise his statement “…Even the Canon 5D Mark II has a sensor which is really crippled by poor image processing relative to the GH2, ….” would make no sense. I guess GH2 is for the folks caring more about video than stills, then.
Panasonic provides announced the Lumix DMC-GF2 Mini 4 Thirds camera. Any simplified model with the corporation’s GF1, Panasonic GF2 inherits the same flat-body layout but with revised handle layout and touch-screen manage.
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I plan on getting a G2 soon. This does give me inspiration to get more income and maybe get the GH2 or its successor later on down the road… 🙂
why don´t YOU change your sites name into:”ALL ABOUT PANASONIC”??
Hi Saabbilly. If you have some interesting Olympus news send it to me. I havn’t found anything recently (a part some E-5 reviews I already posted here).
Let’s face it: Oly marketing doesn’t like us much, the customers. They still can’t grok what they have really said/hadn’t said on the Photokina. It’s like their marketing department can’t read English or simply too arrogant to read what press is writing about them.
Pannay is where development happens now. And Pannay rumor treadmill too allows to peek into what Oly (and others) can offer us in the future. So I personally am pretty fine with following the company where the actual developments happen.
Or should @Admin report weekly Oly stock market performance? For I gather that are only news about Olympus. That would turn the site into a rather boring place….
@ saabbilly
Olympus are working on a phone with Motorola 🙂 :
http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_olympus_enters_rumor_land_boasts_android_and_tegra_2-news-2089.php
Joking aside, I think they are working hard on new m4/3 cameras and lenses, but just not letting as many rumors out as Panasonic, who, like Sony, have realized the power an Internet rumor has in product arrival buildup.
Hell froze over: Canon users praise a m43 camera.
P.S. From the RTFA:
> There is an adapter coming soon which allows AF, OIS and aperture control on the GH2 with Canon EF, EFS and L series lenses.
It’s not only the hell – the whole world as we know it comes to an end. Take off your tinfoil hats and trade your human-child-shields for a m43 camera!
If that adapter really does come through……. wow! I’ll get one for sure… Then I will be able to borrow my friends lenses 🙂
Do you hear whether or not this adapter is specific to ONLY to GH2?
Such an adapter would be a huge boost to m4/3. Only some wides would be missing, the rest would be already there … Although, I doubt those PDAF optimized lenses would AF quickly.
You sure about that? Canon seem to hold onto their mount specs pretty closely. Although I suppose if they aren’t planning a mirrorless that would compete with m43 anytime soon, they’d figure they may as well make some money out of lenses.
Whoever made this adapter (I am still not 100% convinced it is not vaporware) probably had to reverse engineer the mount and protocols.
You know, like Sigma, Tokina and Tamron had to do 30 years ago.
There probably just wasn’t any economic incentive for anyone to do this in the past until m43 arrived and adapted lenses became a photographic obsession/phenomenon ;).
Back on topic, the GH2 is looking pretty boss for video. Admins, keep the news and rumors coming!
He’s probably referring to the mount adapter announced by Birger, but it’s not available yet:
http://www.birger.com/
Barry Green has also discussed it, most recently here:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?230266-Future-EOS-to-GH2-adapter-with-aperture-control-and-IS&highlight=birger
what is all this video carp.. are you 43 people making photos or videos?
Both. Obviously.
Stop being so negative.
why don´t YOU change your sites name into:”ALL ABOUT PANASONIC”??
lol.. yeah or… “all about VIDEO and amateurish narrow DOF”.
what is your problem? why cant you NOT come to this site if you dont like it?
I think he(she) is just joking…
It’s called trolling. A widespread phenomenon on internet forums. Some people simply have too much time on their hands and so they spend hours on forums where they can be brats yet remain anonymous.
you must know it.. you spend all your life here writing comments.
“you must know it.. you spend all your life here writing comments” he said, writing it as a comment
No surprise here, Canon is junk.
I think they were just over keen to have the most pixels & now are paying for it.
” Right now you can only buy the japanese GH2 on eBay (Click here). And there is one more bad news for US readers: Amazon changed the Panasonic 100-300mm availaibility status to “This item will be released on January 1, 2011“. I hope that’s just a mistake because european stores like Amazon Deutschland and Amazon UK already do have the lens in Stock and even eBay has some of them on auction.”
Maybe the US$ needs to gain in value so they can still sell at their prefered price, in other words, US Panasonic probably can’t afford to import above a certain price because they can’t afford to raise the price to be competitive in the US, so sorry US people, I guess you will have to wait. 🙂 That’s my theory anyhow. Sorry, but I’ve been enjoying the buying power of the Australian dollar recently. One man’s loss is anothers gain. 😉
Im happy a canonite cleared up the m43/43 DOF DR ISO myth to his fellow canonites
maybe they will see now that bigger (aps) does not mean better
imagine if they would have made this same sensor 14mp or 12mp, it would be even better.
This is great news
Panasonic is definitely doing their best to make m43 work. If the video part is successful, we are sure to see some high quality (and fast) primes coming. Hopefully, Olympus can come up with something exciting too.
Semi ignoring most posts above, what I enjoy is that Panasonic are obviously working actively with the internet community on the GH2 development and marketing. They realise that things are different now. They hire the Russian hacker rather than prosecute him, and they use a (originally) Canon forum to test and market their product.
Also, they have somehow brokered peace between the video and still camera divisions of their own company, it looks like the GH2 is really being worked on by both sets of engineers. Big ask for a Japanese company.
Sure, as an Olympus user now, I would like to see something better coming from them as well, but the argument for buying a GH2 is just getting stronger. If Panasonic also bring out the GP1(?), as a solid step between the GF2 and GH2, I could see myself with two Panasonic bodies. Especially if Olympus doesn’t learn that what a focus assist light is about……..
It seems like GH2 has a big improvement over GH1 in terms of software, even though many of them seems like could have been applied to GH1 with a firmware update. However hardware part was not so satisfactory. I hope GH3 will be a big leap over GH1 and GH2 also in terms of hardware, not only in software.
I get it. He´s talking about HD video. Otherwise his statement “…Even the Canon 5D Mark II has a sensor which is really crippled by poor image processing relative to the GH2, ….” would make no sense. I guess GH2 is for the folks caring more about video than stills, then.
Panasonic provides announced the Lumix DMC-GF2 Mini 4 Thirds camera. Any simplified model with the corporation’s GF1, Panasonic GF2 inherits the same flat-body layout but with revised handle layout and touch-screen manage.
You got a really useful blog I have been here reading for about an hour. I am a newbie and your success is very much an inspiration for me.
I feel that is one of the most important information for me. And i’m happy studying your article. But want to statement on some basic things, The website taste is great, the articles is in reality great : D. Excellent task, cheers