Panasonic announced their big MFT stuff and a new FZ300 superzoom camera today! An extensive coverage with reviews, image samples and more can be seen as usual on 43rumors.com (Click here). It would be interesting to know if the GX8 is the first MFT camera using a Sony FT sensor but Panasonic doens’t spill out any info on that 🙂
Preorders:
Black GX8 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic.
Silver GX8 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic.
FZ300 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto and Panasonic.
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If looks alone mattered, this camera is a winner. I will await the real comprehensive tests to comment further.
LUMIX does know how to make a handsome camera. (Some of the gf models excluded)
The woman’s hand is lovely, but a man’s hand would give me a better idea of how the camera fits (and sorry, but the market is mainly men). I can already see the better grip for larger lenses than with the GX7. Panasonic is really moving forward and I am salivating. Ergonomics and functionality appear to be optimized, especially for larger (extraordinary) lenses available for MFT, however RAW image quality will be the proof of the pudding for stills. Reduced noise in the shadows without loss of detail and without color distortion are the priorities for me. Olympus has set the standard for RAW IQ thus far, and IMO, 20 MP doesn’t mean anything unless this RAW IQ bar has been cleared by Panasonic.
So, I guess the Lumix GX 8, the Sony A 8000 and the Fujifilm X-Pro2 (once it will be out) will be the 3 toprunners to be compared in this class.