Not only the Olympus E-M1 but also the Panasonic GH4 will get a firmware update soon. An anonymous source just sent me this…
“Panasonic new firmware will improve 96fps slow motion and the 4K mode. Including internal compressed raw, 12 and 14 bit uncompressed hdmi”
Tomorrow (Monday) will be a damn exciting day! Don’t miss it and keep following 43rumors!
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GH4 North American store links:
GH4 camera at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Ritz Camera and Panasonic. Price: $1,698. In Canada at Vistek.
GH4 camera with interface unit at Adorama and BHphoto. Price: $3,298
Interface unit only at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic. Price: $1,998
GH4 Europen store links:
Germany: Wexcameras, Marcotec-shop.de.
UK at Wexphotographic, CameraWorld, UKdigital, CVP, TipTop.
Holland at Fotohanskeuzekamp.
Belgium at Fotokonijnenberg.
Norway at Fotovideo.
Sweden at Cyberphoto, Skandinavianphoto.
Finland at Telefoto, Topshot, Verkkoauppa.
France at Photocineshop.
Spain: Fotoboom.
Asian store links:
Digitalrev and Digidirect Australia.
4K cards
Kingston 16-32-64 GB SDHC UHS-I Speed Class 3 at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sandisk 16-32-64 GB Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II Memory Card at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Transcend 64-128 GB High Speed 10 UHS-3 at Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Panasonic 16-32-64 GB SDHC-UHS-I U3 Card (90MB/s) at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
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96fps in 4k? that would be kool indeed haha 😀
It would…. 64GiB card full in few minutes.
But sensor is capable or only to 30fps max at 4k.
1080p slomo has slight IQ degradation – they can do the same for the 4k footage.
Doesn’t help if sensor cant scan.
I think there’s a comma missing “will improve 96fps, 4K slowmotion…” can the sensor do 60p UHD 4K because maybe so, it could have a higher compressed 60fps slow motion… maybe, I don’t know…
it would be nice if Panasonic started to give out better firmware updates, instead of what has been doing historically.
What would be even cooler, is if it pulled a Fuji move and updated the GH3 with better recording quality, etc…
can or can’t ,just check heat pipes,
if firmware can readout 60fps it’ s great.
Can’t do. Sensor is capable only to 30fps readout in 4k (Mpix) and even smaller in full frame readouts.
internal raw… hahahahah sony poor sony
internal raw update firmware GH4, GM5 and a revolutionary dream camera LX100. Sony sony you are ready for a damn storm 🙂
Doubt it will be internal raw, maybe something like ProRes 422 HQ (or Panasoniç’s equivalent, which is of course more likely).
panasonic licensed prores
They have? Awesome!
mmhmmm, only problem is whether they will implement it on the GH4. i know its going towards their varicam line up.
Hope that is the new GH4 firmware announcement…. 😉 😛 But highly doubt it.
why trying to bring another brand or system down? is no need for such.
Panasonic is an anagram for SONApanic (well A kinda looks like Y if upside down)
So close now to the announcement , still no photos yet available .
What happen to all the resources ?
Yun wait untill tomorrow for christ sake lol
Is not I can’t wait but is abnormal compare with previous models which we know the look of the gadgets before the time of announcement .
On the other way , I have to say well done to Pana for keeping this so secret for the first time .
Thumb down to all the resources !
is normal that if they want to keep it secret, they leak less info, now with internet goin on and such. and yes, you are impatient.
Yun messed his pants ALREADY! …too late. LOL!
same here! specs bored me as we hear them long time ….show us pics pls!
Can’t do much if Admin have nothing to show .
But at least show us photo of week .
Did he post earlier there is a problem with Facebook and the photos this week?
An exciting day tomorrow indeed.
I’m looking forward to 2 things:
1) A brand new free 4K video camera from Olympus courtesy of a firmware upgrade.
2) Humble apologies and quiet eating of hats from all the naysayers who said Olympus would never get their video act together.
Of course, one of those things won’t happen!
Haha…. Sad day for all the hats. It still sound kinda weird, but I believe it exist. If it comes tomorrow…. We’ll have to see, but it would be awesome. And for all those who claim it can’t be updated by firmware only: “what if they designed it for that in mind from the start?”.
The quality remains to be seen, if its not a full sensor readout it will be a moire and aliasing mess. Fingers crossed Oly has figured it out.
AFAIK Panasonic does not do a full sensor readout either, instead they take a 8MP crop from the center of the sensor. This way they don’t need any lineskipping or resizing to get to 4K.
sad that no leak pictures of Panasonic LX100 or GM5 …bit disapointed!
a trust source was kiled by panasonic agent, ha ha ha
no future rumors,
look back oly rumors has more detail,quot list
but panny rumors had 1 or 2 message ,include this article.
So what is it again that will be announced tomorrow?
– LX100
– GM5
– LX8 ?
– Pana 35-100mm
– GH4 firmware update
– E-M1 firmware update
A shame that Pana has abandoned the GX7 already.
No way Pana going to drop the GX .
The GX is a 24 months cycle models .
Will unveiled only at the year of 2015 onwards once the organic sensor is ready .
lens update;
one prime (fix range) i guess kit prime such as 20mm,14mm
not include 25mm,45mm because it had Lieca label.
What I meant is that they don’t make firmware updates for it ala Fuji.
You are sure of this ?
But traditionally all GX firmware only have one update if I’m not wrong .
The GX is Pana’s premier RF such as Fuji’s X Pro deserve all latest techs inside it .
And also
– Oly 40-150
– Metal Panaleica 25?
– Oly lens roadmap?
A new metal PL 25 with A ring and AF/MF is a fashionable idea and I am sure it would sell. Not that the current PL25 is exactly broken.
For what my opinion is worth, if there is going to be an overhaul, I’d go for the macro PL 45.
GX7? Shame there is no G6 replacement….
yeah,agree
gx7 ‘s price too expensive ,can panny release GX5 with 1.44 mdot EVF without tiles ,70% price of GX7
totally agree.
the G6 were the best money value in the panasonic camera line.
Pity the G never hit the target for it to go on production .
Even in my place , I still don’t see any Photograher carrying the G camera .
Imagine how hard is the sale .
Now got EOS 100 , likely design for G series holders .
Yeah, I’m sad too that Pana has abandoned the GX7. There’s many small things that can be improved. Typical Pana.
It seems there is no LX8, it was replaced by the LX100 alone and I don’t think it would make sense to have both LX100 and LX8, sure there is a size difference but they intersect a great part of the premium compact market.
Panasonic needs a new lens roadmap.
Last hour firmware rumor! GH4 firmware update will give GH4 the possibility to record in 4K! This is really FT5!
Why not 120fps and 240 fps in 1080p like Olympus E-M1 rumors?
Anyway, it’s not the first time this RAW rumors surface but 12-bit and 14-bit files? Was the hardware already capable of that?
They were:
4k 25/ 30fps
1080p 25/30/50/60fps
720p 25/30/50/60/120fps
240p 25/30/50/60/120/240fps
It is just sad that dedicated devices for photography and videos can’t do what even iPhone manages to do. 720p 240fps.
The only reason to get a m4/3 now (or any DSLR) is low light quality and depth of field control. Otherwise get iPhone 6 plus for under a grand with 128GiB storage.
Not the framerates, but if it’s capable of 12-bit and 14-bit color sample.
And if the GH4 is already capable of 1080p96fps, 60fps can’t be the limit.
Moreover, you can’t compare an iPhone with a real camera as if it’s as simple as that, apples and oranges. But as demands build up, soon enough there will be highr framerates in the future.
60fps can be a limit. It comes to electronics speed to maintain readout. 96fps was now in lower quality because that. 240fps by skipping lines etc.
And iPhone camera module can be compared to any “real camera” as it is a real camera, only much smaller one.
If you can’t knowledge the difference and claim the iPhone camera module isn’t “real camera”, then you are making other apple as orange by trying to paint it as orange.
Oh my, are you an Apple fanboy or something? I could had never imagined that someone would take a defensive stance and misunderstand it in such way.
The iPhone is NOT a camera, it’s a PHONE that HAS a camera and in no way I was bashing on it, or saying that the camera module is not a camera. I simply said that they are not comparable as products, not as cameras.
My point being that I think it’s nonsense, very unreasonable to stablish such comparison. These are apples and oranges, what one is capapble of doing has nothing to do what the other does, they are not analogous to each other. The primary purpose, the sensor size, the battery consumption, the heat generated, the speed of the pixel readout of a small area can’t be compared to a bigger sensor, etc. it’s all different.
There are simply too many things that has to be taken into account when understanding the differences between a phone with a camera and a real camera. Thinking that just because an iPhone has 240fps an ILC should alaready have one, it’s way too shallow and simplistic and that’s what I meant by being apples and oranges. It’s like saying “oh, the Samsung Galaxy has had 4K for a while, how
come an A7s can’t record 4K internally???”. It completely ignores what makes them such distinct products.
But as I said, as demands build up and tech moves forward, soon enough HFR will be a common place for ILC.
How about much better dynamic range and color reproduction and codec and ergonomics and durability and expandability? How about that pile of lenses sitting on your shelf? Is frame rate the only reason you use a camera?
maybe its a firmware update to output it not internally but through the use of the bulky ass YAGH. i hope not. but i do see your point on 120 or even 240 at a lower res i mean 1080 would be really nice.
Latest rumor: the GH4 will get 5 axis IBIS and PDAF via firmware update!
DFD works very good, no need for PDAF 🙂
I guess if you aren’t into video or fixed-lens cameras…Photokina…is totally boring. 🙁
hopefully compressed RAW video not still mode…
4k raw compressed internally?
That would bring back the attention to GH4 for sure.. but there is going to be a battle of cards keeping up with the data.
That would outshine every single video focused camera in it’s price range. A heavy blow on blackmagic for example.
But it’s hard to imagine 4k raw compression via firmware, not a hardware update. Unlikely.
I really hope the news are true!
not a news more like a badly sourced gossip.
It will be compressed raw, much like RED records compressed raw. The files will not be that large. BTW, cards are getting cheaper…
If it gets internal compressed 4K RAW, I’ll eat my hat. Maaaaaybe 1080p, but I’d still be very surprised.
Considering I already own a gh4, I really hope this is true. But it really sounds like a stretch. If they did this, though, it would be the most popular Panasonic camera since the dvx100…
GIMME THAT GAMMA LOG PANASONIC
Biggest anticlimax ever…..
Panasonic announces the new firmware update program for the LUMIX G Interchangeable Lens Camera
DMC-GH4. The firmware will be released to enhance the performance and controllability of the camera, featuring new 4K Photo Mode.
The 4K Photo mode encourages a new way of photography first proposed by Panasonic. It encourages users to capture spur-of-the-moment, high resolution, 4K photos by cropping out a designated frame from a 4K video. With the new firmware for GH4, it is easier to get 4K photo by using the dedicated mode.
Once selecting the 4K Photo Mode, recording format, picture quality setting, brightness level are automatically set to the optimum parameter for photo shooting. Users can record high quality video either in 4:3, 3:2 or even 1:1 aspect, in addition to 16:9, all which can provide a still image with 8-megapixel equivalent resolution. Each JPEG image cropped out of the video footage complies with EXIF just as a normal still picture. While recording the 4K video in 4K Photo Mode, it is possible to mark the designated part by just pressing the [Fn1] button. This can reduce postproduction work for searching the spur-of-the-moment worth cropping out. Furthermore, 4K video can be recorded continuously with Loop Rec function which keeps on saving 5 newest 2-minute video files before you press record. This means users can patiently wait for the perfect photo opportunity to come along for as long as they want through keeping the camera recording.
There are more functional upgrades such as an addition of 4K video recording in 23.98p (MP4, AAC) and enhancement of controllability over ISO setting or light amount of flash emission. Also, the DMC-GH4 now expands its connectivity with external equipment. For example, the PC software “USB Tether*2” enables remote camera control (shooting, setting or image data transfer) by PC via USB.
The PHOTOfunSTUDIO 9.5PE and Panasonic Image App for iOS/Android will also be updated to support these functional upgrades.
The new firmware program is scheduled to be released with more information in detail at the Panasonic LUMIX Support Site at http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/ in the beginning of October, 2014.
*1 Use SDXC/SDHC Memory Card compatible with UHS Speed Class 3 (U3)
*2 *For more information on PC software “USB Tether”, please visit the website of Promote Systems.http://www.promotesystems.com/
•Android and Google Play are trademarks or registered trademarks of Google Inc.
• IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. and other countries and is used under license.
WHERE IS IT?????
should be rated FT negative 10, this was like a prank, I almost had to ask myself if I was being punk’d by Ashton kutcher
Admin, your sources are being a pathetic joke.
these “sources” are dumb dumbs
the Jennifer Lawrence leaked pictures had more credible sources
These rumors are just fantasies. I’d only like them to fix the aliasing/moiree on the 1080 mode. The GH2 wasn’t showing any of the artifacts i’m seeing in the Gh4 1080p. All the rest of the leaks are just science fiction to me.
They will improve 4k internally, gamma log etc. with GH5. No reason to do this on the GH4… at least no marketing reason; they’ll wait to see what the competitors will do, and then they will seriously improve the camera with the next model to keep up the challenge
Maybe they will try to breath new life into the DMV-YAGH interface unit by adding raw? That’s the only way I see it going down…