5D Mark III vs GH3 from Ryan Mancuso on Vimeo.
There a rumors on the Japanese website Kakaku (translation here) saying that the shipment of GH3 will be delayed in Japan due to a big delay in the production of “finder component” of the camera. (Thanks Onur for finding this). Don’t know if the info is correct. For now the GH3 is regularly shipping in EU and US stores and should ship next week at Amazon Japan too.
More GH3 news:
Quick Informal High ISO Image Comparison between the GH3 and E-M5 (ThePhoBlographer).
Image samples at Outbackphoto.
And of course first GH3 owners are posting their unboxing videos on youtube.
GH3 store links and in Stock status check:
12-35mm GH3 kit: Wex UK, Wex DE, [shoplink 35309 ebay]Photoexpress UK[/shoplink], FotoHansKeuzekamp (NL),
14-140mm GH3 kit: Wex UK, Amazon UK, [shoplink 35310 ebay]Photoexpress UK[/shoplink], Wex DE, Amazon FR,
Body only: Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Panasonic store, Samys, Henry, Vistek, Wex UK, FotoHansKeuzekamp (NL), Amazon FR, [shoplink 35311 ebay]Webdistirbution FR[/shoplink].
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Finder component?
My GH3 arrived today early this morning. It’s amazing. I sold a Canon 5D Mark II and bought a GH2 when I got into video (no point keeping the 5D2 when I could sell it buy a camera with slightly better video and have a lot of money left over) Now I’v got the GH3 and first impressions have been very very good. The GH2 is still amazing for the price and what it can do the but I’m so impressed with GH3 it’s just as good if not better in a much much better more polished package.
No finder issue they simply sold through their stock and are focusing on the US and UK markets first so if you can find a GH3 get it.
I’ve never understood the point of unboxing videos. Why would anybody want to make one or view one? Boring and pointless.
Of course, usage and review videos are entirely different.
Agreed. When I get a new toy, my first instinct is to open the package and play with it as soon as possible, not set up a video camera and upload videos to YouTube.
What it comes down to, though, is box porn. That’s all it is. Some people get off on packaging. There’s the anticipation, the tease, the slow undressing. That’s all just foreplay. By the time you reach the climax of the video, the final reveal and display of the product within, you’ve worked yourself up into a sort of aroused consumerist state and want to rush out and get one yourself.
I’ve actually stumbled across an unboxing video one time (I think it was an Apple product) where they literally used porn music as the soundtrack. It was funny, and really spot on. It was put out by one of these tech sites, and I think they were making fun of themselves a little bit.
I suspect the demanding market for GH3 is not up to expection & that’s why they delay it .
In my place , I see people carrying Pens camera & OMD but not GH2 , or even GH3 .
I don’t want to read too much into such a tenuous rumor, but I wonder if the “finder” component could be the viewfinder. There have been some people reporting some kind of “smearing” with the GH3 viewfinder, and others saying it’s wonderful. Maybe it’s been determined that some of the units are faulty, and Panasonic is trying to work it out with their supplier?
I wonder if they will recall them to fix this because my gh3 has a sort of smearing affect unless my eye is directly centered…I will do further testing but it makes me not want even use the EVF…
THAT is exactly the issue!
Well, I was in Hawaii last week and I think I saw a “finder component” washed up on the beaches along with all the other debris from the tsunami. All the way across the Pacific. Explains the parts shortage.
Its the usual Panasonic tactic to keep the GH3 overpriced for longer.
Soon there will be “limited supply”
Its a moneymaking scheme 🙂
We told that there was a problem with the viewfinder, months ago, and some people, in this very same forum dared to snicker about it.
Huhmmm….
I got the GH3 two days ago. Just waiting for the lumix link software to be released in the Norwegian Apple store. So far I am very happy with the GH3.
I just got my GH3 and the OLED viewfinder has a really jaggy image. The back OLED looks fine. Gets better when I pan. When it comes into focus, the evf OLED looks like an old color viewfinder from one on my early digital video cameras. Real bitty and jaggy. This quite a step backwards from my GH2. Anyone else seeing this problem? I saw GH3 at a trade show a few weeks back and it seemed fine.
you either posted this under a different name on dpreview or copied it word for word , I think I smell an Olympus fanboy
do you know about the small adjustment dial on the upper right side of the eyepiece that focuses the display image?
Sorry, I used google translation but still cannot understand you…
The EVF on mine is fine.
The 5dmkiii looks much better here! The gh3 looks too digital and magenta. Much better dynamic range for the canon too
Yes, Panasonic really needs to hire someone who knows about colors (hell, anyone in this forum could help them, and for free, not even a specialist is needed!). With still pictures, there is the raw option. But with video you’re stuck with those ugly colors than can only be corrected to an extent in post.
Panasonic, you make great cameras and lenses. Just fix those colors, please. It’s an important and urgent matter!
(BTW, my only camera is a Panasonic LX3, which is slightly better than their m4/3 in colors, but not wonderful. Newer compacts actually have decent colors, so I don’t know why Panasonic just don’t use those ones for their m4/3 cameras too).
Perhaps you should take a colour blindness test. I have and my colour vision is perfect. The GH3 colours are excellent and much better than the GH2.
Milan is correct. The GH3 colours are not as good as the 5D MkII, there is a magenta cast and the green bridge appears as grey. I have the similar problems with my GH2. If I shoot in a room with a green or bluish wall tint, it always comes out grey, no matter what lighting I use or camera settings.
If I use my 5D MkII it looks fine.
Review of 12-35 : http://www.sansmirror.com/lenses/lens-reviews/lenses-for-m43-olympuspanas/panasonic-12-35mm-f28-lumix.html
I feel the GH3 price is a little bloated right now. I’m holding out a few months until supply is readily available and the the prices have dropped.
You give the impression that the GH3 is freely shipping. I have yet to see an “in stock” notification on any of the sites you list as having it. I ordered from B&H the first of November and still don’t have it.
Hi Mopix! They shipped the preorders in USA and Wex and other stores keep marking the camera as in and out of Stock. Sorry if it keeps changing all the time.
Thanks for the reply.
the GH3 is in stock in a number of Uk retailers though it is no surprise that they would supply the UK first as the profit margin must be huge lol
I pre-ordered my GH3 about 2 weeks before they shipped them out but still haven’t received it (US). They’re probably filling their orders from early pre-orders before shipping the others. I just want my GH3!