This is the Panasonic GF7 that will be likely announced this week. And as you see it looks quite unusual with that hump in the middle. That hump is not an EVF! The GF7 specs are:
– 16MP sensor
– ISO 200-25,600
– 1.04 million dot titlting LCD monitor (180 degrees)
– no 4K recording- Come with 12-32mm kit lens.
I am really wondering what that hump is there for…
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121 Responses
Not interested if there is no EVF 🙁
There’s already a camera for you: GM5.
No way. I’d rather buy a GX7 but now I’m wating to see what the GX8 will be like.
Then maybe he should have said “there’s already two cameras for you” 😉
Is there any reason why these tiny cams don’t have at least a very small grip?
To sell your more accessories, of course
Flash/hotshoe? They have GH,GM and GX already, so why bother with GF?
Low end camera with no viewfinder–all the other ones you mentioned have VFs and are thus priced higher. This one should be the cheapest.
So the GF7 is basically the new old GM? Sounds good to me.
Looks good
It’s the GM1 with a titling screen ! Look better than all the GF since GF3.
For the bump: maybe because the body is smaller than the mount.
What’s that little hump?
Confusing nomenclature. This sure looks like a tiny GM. Why not just call it a GM1mii?
Regardless, another beautiful design from Panasonic. I wish that the GM5 had a tilting touch screen
That last sentence:yes indeed!
GM1mii isn’t confusing? I think Panasonic’s model numbers are at least reasonably straightforward.
bealutiful camera.
I’d love if oly viewfinders had that shape.
No EVF but the ridiculous bump? I can’t fathom why this product line even exists when the GM serious already covers the ultra-compact sector. Panasonic should have made another GX instead of by this pitiful product.
The half hump is there for style. Might also hold a flash.
If that bump was a viewfinder, I might be all over this. But I suspect it’s only a styling affectation. I’ve tried many cameras without viewfinders. Without exception, they were all challenges in bright sunlight. I don’t buy cameras with out viewfindeds anymore.
Looks to be as tiny as the GM1, smart move bringing this tiny form factor to a (I hope) cheaper price point.
The hump must house a small flash.
I like the bare-essentials design. The thing looks rather sweet and far better than all previous GF cameras (including GF1).
It’s a minnie humper. LOL!
Please …from this point forward let no Panasonic fan make fun of or degrade Olympus’s great retro designs. If you do…all I will have to print under your post it GF7. This is quite an unexpected, delicious breakfast!
You find it funny, but Panasonic “gets it”. M43 can’t compete with larger sensor sizes, so make the cameras smaller than everything else. And it’s working for them.
Besides, nothing is more discusting in looks than the E-M1. That camera is hideous.
And I tend to use cameras to take pics, not to hang around my neck looking stylish. If i wanted that, I’d buy a gold chain, instead.
Hey mister, are you interested in buying gold chain with a gold full frame camera on it.
Is this the NEW Nikon???
Well, the E-M1 might look disgusting for you (not for most others though), however, it has clearly the best ergonomics of all m4/3 (if not mirrorless) cameras. Even if I would not be happy with the shape, the ergonomics should convince anybody.
I dislike Olympus’ designs, and I really dislike the GF7 for the same reason. I also dislike the Panasonic GF2, 3, 5 & 6, which also have humps (round ones, but still). Humps, IMO, do not belong on rangefinder bodies.
Since they are in no way really rangefinders, do you basically mean you like rectangles?
Sorry, figured since this was an enthusiast blog for a particular digital sensor type, people would work out that I meant “rangefinder-styled” (as opposed to “mini-SLR styled”), referring to the shape of the camera instead of the focusing method. Next time I’ll be more clear. So yes, in these particular types of bodies, I like rectangles.
Figured anyone following a digital camera sensor format blog would get that I was referring to the body style instead of the focusing method. Yes, I like rectangles when it comes to that style of camera. Humps don’t bother me on SLR-style (style, not with actual reflex mirrors, mind you) cameras like the GH series.
Most lame retro camera I have ever seen. I’ll have to cover side of my face when I pass by it in store as if the freak has never been born.
I’m so hoping the GX8 looks like the L-1, with manual dials like the LX-100.
Basically, give me the GX7 innards, with the look and controls of the LX-100.
Home. Run.
Mic input and working IBIS in video too, please
This is one fugly camera!
you’re god damn right sir !
It’s a matter of taste. To me it is so beautiful it almost looks like an Olympus.
-so, you add a small hump to the GM1 and all of a sudden it’s a “fugly” camera?
Noted.
Yes. I think this is hideous. The GM1 has a nice clean, Leica M-like style, but the hump looks like something off a cheap Russian SLR from the 1960s. Yuck. WWTT?
Matter of taste. I think it looks fine. But the total lack of grip would wickedly annoy me.
Richard Franiec solves it ;-), might even use the existing GM1 version.
Which sensor?
gm1 ?
Also have a hump, I do. Nothing wrong with a hump, there is.
bump = ibis movement sensor ?
No hot-shoe? Does the strange bump house a built-in flash?
I kinda like this design. Althought I’d really love this if there was EVF behind that bump.
Is it 499,-$, ore less? If not, the Lx-100 gos to 600.. so?
Could also take the “old” GF6…and panasonic makes the
same mistakes, all make. Run in standing-still-many-body-Production.
Okay..And think, it gets smaler and smaler and unergonomics, becaus
of nonreal-food MC DONALDS ( fat but tiny people)–and the failor to
think, this will stop the idiotic smartphoen-wave…always this way..never
the other.. funny. but
no money for that!
What hump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Wautjgon8
I can understand that some models won’t have any EVF. I cannot understand, however, that when space allows it, they won’t put a hot shoe.
noooooooo! I hate the hump! Panasonic, please don’t start doing this on your other rangefinder-style cameras, please!
Perhaps the hump hides a flash. Anyway, the “flat” hump looks similar to that on Fuji x T1. I like this tiny camera. I won’t buy it since I don’t need it. Easy.
Anyone asked will u buy it or not? 🙂
To be fair, noone asked either if we like the camera or its bump, and everyone is writing opinions on that. 🙂
I wrote that I won’t buy it simply because I don’t need it, without complaining as many do about the look or presence of the hump.
(Give admin a couple of days and there will be a poll about those interested or not in buying it)
Instead of making silly polls Admin should use his precious time in eradicating the trolls from this website, these past 2 years there’s been absolutely no moderation on this website, I use to come here daily but I now I barely stop to read the titles and see if there’s any leaked specs of photos, that’s it, I can only tolerate reading a couple of threads if any, and only post once every couple of months at the most, this site has become unbearable to participate in, but the most frustrating thing about it is the amount of times Admin has come out to explain his lack of moderation in these few years and then goes silent without any measure taken. This place use to harbor a collaborative community of m43 users, now it’s just a a dumping ground of hate from paid posters, bots and most of all a troll nest.
That’s sadly true, and I often do like you do: read the topic and skip every comment. It’s a pity since some users are usually giving interesting/helpful opinions/suggestions, and this is easily broken by trolls.
When Admin will get rid of them, I’ll start shopping from this website.
Suggestion: if a poor guy acts like a troll, trying to gather your attention, ignore it 🙂
Thank goodness! We were worried that you might buy it anyway, but now we know.
Phew! That was a close one!
Read below 🙂
Who is complaining about a hump? This hump is what makes it look great, but why isn’t this hump an evf?
By the way, what is the difference between the gf and gm line now?
The hump is the difference.
Damn, why didn’t I see that 🙂
I was right, a modified GM1, totally makes sense. The original GF6 design looked terrible.
The hump is normal, if you look at the GF6 it kind of has the hump but the hump is curved into the body. The hump is there because of the lens mount.
Flash, hotshoe and GPS in the hump?
Whatever… it’s not bad looking bad at all. It’s a bit more like the GX7 with the slightly beveled top and base plates, unlike the GM-series with the straight sides.
The new, streamlined Panasonic bodies are all quite nice looking.
Flat surface like a GM1. Hope they are launching a grip simultaneously with that camera. Can’t stand cameras without at least some sort of grip, I always end up squeezing the crap out of them to overcompensate for not having something to hold onto.
Release the GX8 panasonic…that is one of the most anticipated camera from m43 world….a near perfect all round camera that makes m43 some sense…with its updated tilt evf, IBIS, neat looker, 1/8000 speed, 1/320 sync…DFD focus..and perhaps a new sensor without AA filter, mic port for videographers and there you have it a winner….4k would be overkill…but 2.5 full hd would be cool…GX7 is just too good a camera except its evf which needs modernisation and zero low light lag… cmon pana…GX8 🙂
Just no hump on it – I beg of thee!
Indeed the GX7 is already 99% close to being the perfect m43 camera, it really is the unsung hero of this past mirrorless generation imo. If anything it is only barely hindered by the quality (not size) of its EVF and the lack of [even more] options in the custom Fn menu, and these already are just nitpickings. The ergonomics are spot on, the build quality is top notch and the amount of features and versatility it packs is simply astonishing, Panasonic just needs to upgrade the innards.
Being already such an excellent piece of gear I don’t see the need to hurry any kind of superfluous update (EM5II), until there’s access to a new objectively better sensor there’s no point in just updating the GX line with a meaningless model. The GX line is geared towards enthusiasts and releasing just a minor update will leave it exposed to criticism in comparison to recent offerings by Sony and Fuji, it’ll be a GX1 scenario all over again, too little to late/soon. I much prefer Panasonic releases a new G or GH camera to distract from the GX line until new sensor tech is ready, since those lines (video oriented) are less likely to need a technological leap in the short term (i.e. a slightly improved GH4II would be welcomed with much less criticism than a GX8 with the same old 16mp sensor).
TL;DR I hope Panasonic waits for new sensor tech to release a new GX model otherwise a new, barely updated version would be meaningless in today’s sensor race.
So its a big GM1? Wow, Panasonic better release a GX8 with this because the GF7 is just sad.
No built in flash clearly, hump is a viewfinder, probably not hot shoe either because you would be able to see the lines for it even with a top on
Big? I think it’s almost the same size as GM1. Look at the lens diameter and the top and bottom of the camera if you think that’s big the GX7 is huge!
Reckon that hump might house the mechanical shutter..not much else to differentiate it from the gm1..
I hope, the GM1 is small due to the electronic shutter, and most have complained about the bad flash sync etc. If so I don’t mind the hump.
The hump should be just the built-in flash, just like in the previous GF model.
Hump doesnt looks like for flash ….so is for evf
admin told no EVF
Reading is hard!
i guess option box(in hump) such as flash,external evf connector,or ibis mechanic ??
5-axis IBIS.
I hope it´s an EVF. It looks nice – like a tiny X-T1. It looks a bit like the patent designs that showed up in 2013. http://photorumors.com/2013/10/30/panasonic-filed-design-patents-for-new-cameras/
The hump is hollow and is a little storage areas for your filters. Obviously.
Or condoms for these times the sheer sexiness of the damera seduces passing women.
Ain’t nobody humpin around!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtE1TmikgIQ
Yuck!
Waiting for gx8…
I’m guessing the screen will flip up like many recent cameras for “selfie” use, so the hump could be where a top hinge is located. Hopefully it also twists around for overhead use etc. (articulated at the top). There is probably also a flash there, probably not a hot shoe based on recent GF cameras.
That’s what I was thinking – screen hinge and pop-up flash housing. Market research must show that Euros and Americans like humps, even mini-humps.
Still waiting for Digital Trip.
i think its small as like the GM1 (look the mount stop at top and down).
So why is there a hump like Oly OMD if there is no EVF. Maybe for stab?
Flash? Hot shoe?
GF7 now with IBIS? but what is so different from GM1 or GM5 maybe they should call it GM3
Looks like the plastic-fantastic version of the GM-5 with a selfie screen slapped on and yet another new styling for the GF series. Seriously, the GF1 was the last really good looking GF camera. I assume the interns designed the GF afterwards; now they are using the GM as a basis and slapped Pana’s most retro design yet on it. So far, Pana’s “retro” was at the same time minimal and clean, this just looks cheap.
maybe hot shoe hump and with the GM5 flash in the kit
If no EVF, why would they add the hump on a GF ?
At least write Lumix on the hump…
I agree, this looks either completely fake or styled aimlessly. Lumix should be on the hump and the model # should be on the frame.
Wonder whether this provides design cues to the G7/8? This will have EVF of course and rotatable screen. If new sensor, weather sealed and IBIS, I will seriously consider it. Oh, and throw in a version of the same flash as the EM5 II 🙂
hump most likely for EVF in center – but is there rumor that there is no EVF ?
looks wise it is fine — but waiting for GX8
flash ???
This is so close to gm5 that I can’t believe it is true.
GM7 you mean…? GF7 already exists…
GX7 exists, GF only goes to 6 currently.
Does it mean that GM5 price will drop very soon? Can’t believe that currently GX7 is much cheaper than GM5
It looks so much better than the GF6 !!!
It’s probably just a bigger GM1 with tilt screen (and maybe GPS) for less money.
Ugly
@Olympus: Where is your answer to GM1, GM5 and GF7? Where is the E-PM3 ??
Isn’t the gf7 the answer to the epl7? But more answers are always welcome, as long as they are correct.
Two shutter release buttons (one on each side)?
Maybe it has another lens mount on the back so you can put on a dedicated selfie lens, and that’s controlled by the second shutter release. Selfies. They’re so hot right now.
Sure, one for right-handed and one for left-handed people.
All the best things from every other m4/3 body concentrated into one gorgeous little jewel. The features lacking in this camera but present in others are simply not worth having. People have asked for the perfect camera, and now Panasonic have made it!
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This is not a high end camera and every camera nor all users need a huge DSLR grip. Go with a GH4 or EM1
Can somebody explain me the point of these small cameras (GM and now GF) with slow 12-32 over, say, Canon G7x?
If you don’t get the point of it then you’re wasting your time posting in a ILC news website. OK, if you still don’t get it I’ll feed it to you, the whole point is lenses, unlike the Canon those small cameras are capable of equipping lenses other than the slow 12-32, f0,95 lenses in fact (and even faster if you get a speedbooster). M43 (and mirrorless in general to some degree) is all about customization and versatility, those small cameras pack the same punch as the big ones and you can mix and match any lens to them for any required scenario.
I think peevee’s point is valid
if I plan to get lenses other than the 12-32 kit lens; it is better to get GX7, which is much more ergonomic when paired with bigger lenses
But I also see your point
One can really mount a “35-100 F4.0-5.6” or “20 F1.7” on GM/GF-7, which is still quite portable;
but it does not offer than much extra than a G7X which covers 24-100 @ f/1.8 – f/2.8
For me;
I would recommend Canon G7X / Sony RX100, when you only plan to use kit lens
OR a Panasonic GX7 / EM5 when you plan to get more than 1 lenses
I tend to agree with PeeVee, I think the majority of GM buyers will never buy another lens, are just jumping on the u43 train, looking for the quality.
I agree, I have the em5 but would love the compactness of the GM or GF bodies with smallest lenses like the 12-32mm that could even add lenses like the compact 8mm, or faster 20mm lenses
If you want other lenses, your compactness and the whole point of 12-32 goes out of the window. BTW, G7x alone covers both 12-32 and 35-100 (slow one) range given apertures and cropping (100mm-e f/2.8 cropped to 200mm-e is equivalent to f/5.6 – exactly like the 35-100/4-5.6 joke). And with G7X, you don’t have to exchange them, and keep 2 of them, change caps etc.
Please note – I am not even questioning GM and GF – I question the useless kit with 12-32. If the kit would be 12-35/2.8 and 35-100/2.8 for reasonable money, I would understand the point.
What is the point of those small city car over say, a F150 ?
Again, G7X is even smaller, but has useable zoom range and faster equivalent aperture EVERYWHERE in the range. And exposure compensation dial. And tilting screen. And more megapixels for longer “digital zoom” (cropping). Again, what is the point of GM and GF with the 12-32 joke?
That 12-32mm lens is no joke.
Try it and see for yourself. It is a very decent kit lens, with a very useful range, that collapses down to the size of a pancake lens. In other words, an ideal kit lens for a small camera.
And if you think Canon G7X is F150 in this comparison, you got it backwards.
Well, I have to admit I did not expect Panasonic to do this. Interesting.
Likely the same flash bump as on the GF6, just a little bit retro styled.
GM3 = GF7?
This is Panasonic testing the water to see how a pentaprism will look on a GM body.