Image courtesy: Dvinfo.
What you see here on top is the JVC GY-LSX2 Micro Four Thirds camera! Dvinfo and Dpreview posted some images of the camera. The camera records 4K at 24 and 30p on SDHC/SDXC media. And it can simultaneously record and stream. The ‘Super 35’ 4k-capable sensor is made by Altasens. It has 13,6 MP and a size of 22,6x17mm (Code: AL41410C)
There is no info about the price yet but rumors has it that it will be around $15,000!
also via Cinescopophilia.
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Welp, everything sounded good until I got to the price…
JVC is always great when ti comes to camera’s names!
When you compare this with the BMD Studio Camera for $3K, if true, $15K is quite a lot.
MFT active mount? Super35 sensor? Mmmm…. let’s how it goes….
Hey admin, sorry interrupt this thread, but are there any news on the G7? Should be about time. I tried the X-E1 and decided that m43 should definitely fit my needs better.
According to latest rumors there won’t be a G7.
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/53439196
Good to know and thanks for the info! …. I actually liked that line, because of the good prices. So Panasonic is going to concentrate on GH, GX, GM and GF?
That sensor has APS-C-like dimensions but a 4:3 aspect ratio. It is 70% larger than a micro four thirds sensor. And all of this behind a micro four thirds mount? I didn’t know that this was possible…
ja, this is very curios.
why not 16:9 but 4:3 for HD TV or cinema… or ordinary 4/3 still image
It seems like with that larger sensor you’re likely to get severe vignetting with a lot of m43-designed lenses (at least the ones specifically designed for the format).
Which leaves you wondering if the large sensor is with the intent of making full use of the many other lenses with a bigger image circle that can be adapted to an m43 mount, if it’s for allowing “spillage” of some sort for out-of-frame stuff when shooting, or (and this seems most likely) if it’s to allow for some sort of 1:1 pixel crop factor down to the normal m43 frame size.
If the sensor is actually 13.6MP, that third option would make perfect sense; at about 70% larger than a standard m43 sensor, you get almost exactly 8MP if you were to crop down to the size of a standard m43 sensor, which is more or less 4K resolution.
It brings up the question of why they’d put the larger sensor in at all, but maybe that’s what was available from chip fabs to get the correct pixel size for a 1:1 4/3 sensor at 4K resolution (something intended for APS-C, maybe), or maybe they’re actually doing something with the extra pixels around the edge, like displaying them on the monitor for framing but not recording them.
Imho this is a very good thing for the MFT system, putting it on a broader vendor basis.
The times of MFT=Oly+Pana are over for good.
since the HMQ30 JVC will never be taken seriously again, unless they offer an Arri killer at half its price. this is not the case, bankruptcy follows.
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SO how can “M4/3 lenses work with a S35 sensor? Has it a crop mode?
$15K? Another ripoff
You know, not everything on the market is a consumer product. Professional gear exists too, and it ain’t cheap. 😉
No shit Sherlock.
$15K? Gimme a break! Someone just mistyped an extra zero.
Does anyone still buy JVC cameras? Anyone?
Yes plenty….
15k might be the price for the shoulder mounted PL version which is on par with their GY-HM850 line. The other line which is a hand held line runs about $6k. However, the last 4k camera they put out wrote to 4 different SD cards or some such nonsense. I’ve owned JVC products before they really know how to do formfactor, but they are usually have a fatal flaw. Like thier 650 line had great streaming possibilities but only did 30fps @1080p.
JVC 4K m43 camera is going to be around $6,000, not $15,000 as
previously rumored. This is stated near the end of the NewsShooter video on the April 9 post. Still
expensive relative to the GH4, but it is a real professional video
camera.
Also, the video states that the camera has two SD card slots, but all 4K is recorded to one card at a time (not four cards like the previous JVC camera). The second slot is either for redundant recording or for continuous recording by swapping cards. This is a feature of many pro video cameras.