Panasonic gives you the chance to participate to the Q&A session at the IFA event in Berlin. You can submit your questions here: http://ifa.panasonic.eu/en?questionid=q_1315231134248
And there is a video for every single answer! The video on top for example contains the answer about the next firmware upgrade. It sounds like there will be no immediate 25p support for the [shoplink 16254]Panasonic GH2[/shoplink].
Below you can see a selected list of questions that do link to the Panasonic video answers (Click on them to open a new tab):
When will the new X Series start shipping to the US?
Why is the GF3 more user friendly?
Are images stabilized in the lens or in the camera?
What Lumix between G3 and GF3 is more silent?
Which are the most important differences between the new optical Leica Summilux 25mm f/1.4 D.G. and the above?
Will the new compact X-series lenses be bundled with the GH2 camera?
Is Panasonic planning to make zoom lens within the X-series with mroe versatile focal lengths?
Does the focus and/or zoom rings rotate on the powered X lenses when you use the levers like on large bulky DSLR lenses?
Are there plans for the successor of the LX5?
Why doesn’t Panasonic ome up with a camera that let’s me upload pictures to social networks?
23 Responses
Am I the only one who has problem seeing the videos?
First video I clicked on had sound disappearing midway through the answer.
Second video terminated abruptly midway too.
It’s probably your browser. Try Google Chrome.
First they will put in 25p then they wont…., well looks like the hack is the only thing that is going to get this feature in.
Thanks for the support Panasonic
Damn. They rejected my question about ‘peaking mode’ in the new bodies of firmware updates. “Your question is out of current topic”.
Really helpful feature for manual lenses users (including those who have native Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95).
I wanted to ask them about why there isn’t planed firmware updates for the older M43 panasonic G cameras with X lenses. The ifa website is not compatible with my browser. Can anyone help me asking that question?
+1 for “peaking mode” it would be a very good feature ! maybe no more need to use the magnifying mode except for macro shots ? I think there is no technical problem to do it
Most of the videos work, but the Leica Summilux 25mm f/1.4 video doesn’t seem to work. Pity.
You don’t seem to be missing much. It hardly answers any questions.
Awful presenters. Long winded answers. Like pulling teeth.
He said that stabilization system is in body of camera ..ups in lens 🙂
Maybe he knows something about upcoming products.
Judging from the answers he know next to nothing, and even have trouble understanding the questions.
Someone please do me this favor…
The second last question in the list of questions above: **Are there plans for the successor of the LX5?**
Can you please click on the link and look at the video. The audio goes mute half way whenever I try… even with multiple browsers.
Please key in here the reps answer to this question in brief. Thanks in advance.
The audio cuts out for me too. What a tease!
Don’t bother watching the videos – waste of time. No answers just long boring sales talk that we already know.
Sigh!
Very unprofessional of Panasonic to allow dissemination of such poor quality communication. Even the anchor person repeating the questions does not seem to know much about the different models of the cameras being discussed.
Wish Panasonic shows improvement in this regard the next time they implement something like this.
I think that this Q&A filled its purpose, this Q&A was not made for people that follows rumors like us, we get info through info leaks, a Panasonic guy won’t leak the real thing or not the things that we really want to know. This Q&A is made for an average user, if it was to be for more advanced users, the specialized media would also be there covering it.
Sometimes there are some interesting questions, but overall the question are from people that just heard about the Lumix G and they don’t even know about the m4/3 system. And the anchor doesn’t have to know it all, he is just a “pretty face” making the questions and silly jokes. How could you expect him to know it all? He would need quite sometime to learn deeply the whole Panasonic electronic lineup, it doesn’t make any sense.
I know it’s a disappointment and we all expected more, I wanted to know more about the high-end GF and about the global shutter possibility, but I understand the nature of this type of Q&A, it’s just to clear things for the average user and if a good question slips through, it’s a bonus basically.
I’d like to see some of the GF2 and GF3’s interface enhancements added to the GH2.
Picture-in-picture focus assist
Customizable QMenu. (then I might actually use it)
Menus with Black text on a light background option
Did anyone get the answer about which camera has a quieter shutter G3 or GF3? I couldn’t get the video to play.
First he thought that the question was about size. About a third thru the video he understood the question, talked nonsense for a while and then admitted he didn’t know. Testing it didn’t seem to occure to him or the journalist even though they presumably had both models availbale.
what? the GH2 has no 25p? WTF? Why? thats just been struck off the office camera list then. Unless this is a wind up?
If the interviewer would have been more knowledgable of what users want, we might have heard more precise info. Wasted opportunity 🙁
“Why doesn’t Panasonic ome up with a camera that let’s me upload pictures to social networks?”
“What Lumix between G3 and GF3 is more silent?”
Could we have any more irrelevant questions?
This is such an important and often overlooked topic Thank you for bringing attention to it and offering valuable advice