Let me catch up with some GH4 news:
Paanasonic launched a special GH4 gallery (Click here) where you can see image and video samples shot by pro photographers.
Imaging Reosurce (Click here) posted some insights on Panasonic’s DFD autofocus technology.
Panasonic GH4 in a professional setting – FAQ (EosHD).
Which 4K camera for the masses? GH4 vs Blackmagic Production Camera (EosHD).
DC.watch (Click here) posted images of the Tokyo event including that ripped off GH4 picture:
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Yep, MrALLCRAP, you are definitely consistent with your name. Now, be a good little troll baby and clean it up.
Great, I have someone using my name now. Pathetic, Rabid Olympus Fanboy, my words hurt that much, huh? So bad that you have to use my name and make False Comments?
hahaha!!
Please, continue. The Truth Hurts, huh?
somewhere, you’re reading this, upset. So you respond the only way you know how, making lame comments using my name.
Admin, that first commenter is an impostor.
…then again, so is COMMUNISM.
Well if you are suggesting “power to the masses”, then yeah, you got that right…..
“In paper…” ??
“COMMUNISM” ??
May I suggest change in medication, the current stuff isn’t doing you any good.
Wow , 49 area focusing ,
this is what I’m been asking from Pana so long .
DFD auto focusing instead of phase detection .
I want all of it in the next GX plus the Organic sensor .
Do you ever plan to actually BUY a camera?
Meet Yun. He posts every few months or so and says he wants a proverbial Ferrari but can only afford a Moskvitch.
to put it simply he is nuts, feel free to ignore him.
Very good camera. But we still do not know 3 very important things. Image stabilization within, What about focus during the shooting
and Low light performance. I write today about GH4: http://www.owlcrew.com/panasonic-gh4-everything-you-want-to-know
You should do more reading instead of writing:
“Very good camera. But we still do not know 3 very important things. Image stabilization within,” No. 4K + Heatmanagement, doesn’t work with Image Stabilization
“What about focus during the shooting” continous AF at 7 FPS
“and Low light performance.” -4 EV for AF
new AF system looks good
now Pana should bring some tele primes for those hunters 🙂
oh yes …GAS again !
Very nice!
The pictures are excellent, but I should say that the video is really impressive!
Awesome camera, for sure!
The photos by Bence Maté are incredible. Would have loved if they had added information on focus mode for each shot.
Nice pictures indeed. He says he took these photos from a purposely made underwater hide. Apparently, he spent more than 20 days in the hide.
Unless he is mostly a video guy, I wonder why one would use a m43 camera in such a context. Obviously, he had a high budget so he could afford to rent or buy those big expensive DSLR birding lenses. Portability is not much of an issue if one intends to stay in a hide for a month. Tracking would have also been better with a DSLR unless Panasonic’s DFD is really a revolution. Lastly and of the most importance, Lumix 100-300mm is not exactly a stellar performer, even if he worked in good light (which was the case with the samples presented).
My point is: it’s not really fair from Panasonic to pretend to have a good system for birding as of now. Please try again when there are decent native m43 long tele lenses and good AFc.
Don’t worry. Bence Mate normally does not use µFT for his work and yes, he and his team have shitloads of money for wicked “nature photography”. They once filtered the water in a lake to get nice semi-underwater shots from Pelicans (he told in a public presentation)…
Bryan’s video showcase looks very very nice.
Too static to show off the camera’s capabilities.
At first I thought GH4 ripped off some technology from some other company, and was very curious, but then I found out what was meant is ripped apart instead 🙂 I find it weird some ppl are into seeing guts of things..euiiwwwwww…
No, the GH4 has tight abs.
I would like to know;
Is the new viewfinder better than the GH3 which was poor?
Is this DFD any good for focus tracking (a weakness of M43 video)
Why are they waiting to set the price -to see what Sony do?
What is low light performance like (I guess GX7 like)
Release date?
How realistic/worthwhile is 4k video for people like me…(mr average) or is it new software editor, new pc, new storage, new monitor -will have to wait for some reviews on that!
When i see “ripped off camera” I think of a cheap chinese knock off of GH4, or that the camera was sold some useless crap for a lot of money. This looks more like a teardown 😉
Ripped apart…
SOOooo….!
I think with this specs the next G-7 will be the
bargain full-hd cam for 499,-$.
It is only a full-hd cam. So it must be unexpensive.
grinnnn…..
If it was $499, you still wouldn’t buy it, so why would it matter how much it costs?
But I’ll tell you this, if Panasonic USA was to actually market the G series properly and pit it against the Canon Rebel series as a smaller and better alternative, the G series would do more for M43 as a whole, than any other M43 camera.
It appears that PANNY has solved my AF issues with m43 and other mirrorless system. thank you Panny!! exciting times! the GH4 is a beast!
Will low light be better than the gx7 thanks to the improved heat sink? I’m hoping they removed the “B” mode 2 minute time limit. This could be one of the first m43 cameras useable for astrophotography.
No 4K 4:2:2 10bit directly on sd card, NO PARTY PANASONIC
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NO
PAR – TY !!!!
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The worse and suckest movement from Panasonic
1080p 4:2:2 10bit neither???? someone know something about that???
In that case, i hope a big fail on GH4 sales.
Ok, so help educate me. This camera is designed around the capabilities of 4K video recording. You buy a camera body for $2000+ and of course lenses. The back-end infrastructure to utilize the higher resolution of 4K will cost you many 000’s of dollars; computer, storage, software, lighting, crew, sound, et.al. At least for now, where’s the market to display this obviously fantastic increased image quality? My contention is, if you have ultimate production values (and budget) that require this kind of resolution, you’re not going to shoot a project on a GH4, but a higher quality camera designed strictly for video, not a video & still hybrid, ala dslr (5D, et.al.). If I’m correct, the 5D took off in video because of the cinematic qualities shooting with the 35mm chip at an affordable price. By the time you wrap the 5D et.al. around the hardware to make it a useable professional recording device, you can’t even see the camera. Why continue down this design path with 4K? Am I completely missing something?
I don’t know much about video, but that guy at EOSHD seems to understand the point of the GH4:
http://www.eoshd.com/content/12070/panasonic-gh4-professional-setting-faq
http://www.eoshd.com/content/12057/4k-camera-masses-gh4-vs-blackmagic-production-camera
If GH4 costs a little less than 4000$ with the add-on audio-video brick, it will comparatively look like a bargain compared to a Canon C300, for instance. The main contender at that price point would be the Blackmagic 4k camera. I guess that even when people have some budgets and crew, to save close to 10000$ vs Canon for a camera body might still mean something, more so if the production uses 2 or 3 of those cameras. As for the ergonomics, using it on a rig, etc., I’m clueless.
People have made amazing movies with a DSLR/MILC on very limited budgets compared to what Hollywood does, for instance see “Upsteam Color” shot on a Panasonic GH2.
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9KmAlrEXU
So yes, there is a space for cameras at this price level. And you can edit 4K footage with as little as even just a laptop costing $1k these days. As for storage, hard drives are getting cheap as chips these days.
So yes again, there is an extra cost associated with these cameras, but it is much less than you think 🙂
Hi: Yeah, I guess in retrospect you are correct 🙂 I’m barely into shooting HD video with my 7D and I can admit that as soon as one of my clients asks me if I shoot 4K, I’ll say “of course I do” and then rush out and buy a GH4 because of the low (comparably) price point of entry. This is somewhat OT, but because I’d hate to fund additional expenses with optics, can the Leica M lenses be used with an adapter on the GH4? I know there’d be a focal-length shift, but it would help save me much money on the front end, at least in the near term. I also have a Beachtek DXA-SLR Pro, which has two XLR ports which works great with the 7D. Any clue if this will work with the GH4, versus having to buy the Pana box?
I hope this will drive up the price of my DP2M and DP3M! This looks like bad design except the Hasselblad/Sony99 is worse!
@admin, for those who can read Japanese here is some info about the sensor improvements:
http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/159166#Comment_159166
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