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What a huge surprise! The brand new and world’s first “cheap” 4K mirrorless system Panasonic GH4 camera is now in Stock and shipping at [shoplink 45715 ebay]Samys on eBay (Click here to grab one!)[/shoplink]. As far as I know this is the worldwide first shipment of the camera and I am surprised USA got the Stock before the Japanese stores! Only a limited quantity is in Stock. And it’s not a bogus claim. They sent me a picture to prove it:
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UPDATE: Now sold out!!!!!
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Not available in Reykjavik yet – no surprise!
Samy’s Camera is the WORST online retailer I have ever dealt with. They sell used cameras as new, and customer service is atrocious. I highly recommend avoiding them at all costs.
You suspect they’re selling used GH4’s. LOL
its possible, demo cameras
That’s precisely what I think I received. It came with the battery floating loose in the box, no twisties on cables, when turned on for the first time the “set date” screen didn’t come up, the settings were a mess and it had almost 200 shutter actuations. Sounds like a demo unit, no?
No. This was an advertising disguised as a sale.
It was not a GH4 that I purchased.
They have a five star (9.6 out of 10 – 144 reviews) rating at ResellerRatings.com, so I’d say that your experience is the exception rather than the rule. Anyway, not much chance of getting a used GH4. There were only a handful of demo units in the world.
Still, it sucks to be that exception. After spending a lot of money at their store, when bringing up a legitimate problem, I was dealt with in a rude and sarcastic manner where their resolution was to tell me to deal with it.
It was not a GH4 that I purchased.
Samy’s has been an excellent retailer as far as I’m concerned. I’ve ordered most of my gear from them and in my experience they bend over backwards to keep me a satisfied customer. For what it’s worth, my GH4 arrived on my doorstep this morning (Florida).
B&H is shipping out the first batch on 23rd 🙂
i ordered it less than an hour after it went live at b&h, so excited Im hoping to be apart of the first batch.
How do you know this? They have been closed all week for Passover.
Amazon still says mine will be delivered on May 2. Maybe it will miraculously show up earlier? Even if it does show up, I can’t seem to find any UHS3 SD cards for sale. Anyone know where I can get one in time?
B&H has the UHS speed class 3 cards in stock. I received a 128GB version over a week ago.
May I ask you the link of the card that you purchased?
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1044487-REG/transcend_ts128gsdu3_128gb_sdxc_uhs_i_u3_r95_w60mb_s.html
Sorry bro. That’s UHS-I. You need UHS-II.
Sorry bro, you are wrong, the only camera with UHS-II support is the
Fujifilm X-T1. Panasonic says to use UHS-1 U3 speed class 3 cards.
If you want a Panasonic UHS-II card and reader B&H has them .
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/963983-REG/panasonic_aj_p2m064ag_64gb_microp2_fast_memory.html
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/964017-REG/panasonic_aj_mpd1g_microp2_drive.html
I have to research, but if that’s true, it’s actually a huge relief. The UHS2 are way more expensive! But THIS site was saying to use the UHS2 cards, so I’m really confused now.
http://www.43rumors.com/gh4-evf-has-aspherical-lenses/
I did not see were it said to use UHS-II cards in the GH4. It just showed the new Sandisk UHS-II card that you could use in the GH4 but is overkill since the GH4 does not have the extra pins to take advantage of the UHS-II cards.
“A new pin layout was introduced to support the UHS-II bus interface. The new second-row pins on the full-size SD memory card and microSD memory card are used for the UHS-II signals. The first-row pins are used for the normal speed, high speed and UHS-I bus interface signals to provide interoperability with existing non-UHS-II host devices.”
https://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/bus_speed/
Thanks a lot, Joe.
Thanks, I just learned more about SD cards than I ever wanted to know. I wish they would make the classifications easier to understand.
From the GH4 manual :
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3814/13925753066_25da9c60a1_b.jpg
For the 200Mbps setting in 1080, you need minimum Speed Class 3, any UHS. That signifies guaranteed 30MB/s writing. 4k records @ 100Mbps so you don’t quite need the same speed but even for that Class 10 is technically not enough so Speed Class 3 is the safer choice.
I don’t understand why this site is increasingly promoting these dubious vendors. Or am I missing the obvious answer?
What “dubious” vendor are you referring to? I’ve never heard anything bad about Samy’s…and they are often discussed on DPreview because they seem to get new models very quickly. They’re reseller rating is something like 9.5/6 last time I checked.
Ooops…meant “Their reseller rating…”
“Dubious vendor?” Samy’s has a well-earned reputation of service for as long as I can remember. I have been shopping there since the 70’s and was in their Fairfax store just yesterday where a very knowledgeable staff was busy making people happy with a large stock of great gear and low key sales assistance. Everyone was either helping an in-store customer or someone on the phone. We should have more of these places but instead we have fewer because low end dipsh*ts scour the net for the “lowest” price and then complain about them later.
maybe not the best place to ask but, is it true that the sandisk 95mbps buffer holds the 4k from the gh4?
Yes. Confirmed from EOSHD and TheCameraStore.
Many thanks Jens ;D
what a supppprise…you can buy a product….. sorry but the world of 2 braincellers goes
up! and eos-hd = the pope for the blinde
Preview comments from Luminous Lanscape:
“”To summarize the GH4 in a single sentence, I would say that this is
a MFT system camera that is fully competitive in terms of features,
functionality and image quality with anything currently on the market.
It leaves little undelivered for stills work. If a 16MP image size is
adequate for your shooting (and it is for mine), then you’ll likely find
the GH4 a very practical and enjoyable stills camera.
When it comes to video, the GH4 is in a class of its own. There is
nothing currently on the market, or even announced from any
manufacturer, that can trump the GH4 when it comes to video in a DSLR /
CSC form factor. This is the only camera of its type that can shoot 4K
to an internal card, and which also features variable frame rates in HD
mode.””
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/panasonic_gh4_report.shtml