Those are the full specs of the two new Panasonic compact cameras. The TX81 will ship in February and the TZ101 will ship in March. Price is still not known.
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Intresting… Any of them is weather sealed?
If the TZ100 was weather sealed it would be an instant buy. It would make a killer hiking Camera.
I think if it was weather sealed, it would push the cost into the $1000+ market. It’s asking a lot.
I think it will still make a fantastic hiking camera, but you may need to pack a sandwich bag to go with it. 🙂
The FZ300 is weather sealed. If it wasn’t I’d instantly think like you. So I have small hopes.
Hmm, but the FZ300 costs $550, despite having a 1/2.3″ sensor. Obviously it has a much, much more serious lens that likely costs more to make… 4.5-108mm/f2.8 compared to 9.1-91/f2.8-5.9, but also a smaller image circle to deal with.
It would be nice if it was weather sealed, but if it wasn’t mentioned in the German article, I wouldn’t have any expectations.
Do these cameras have a M43 sensor?
I don’t think they do Don but as was pointed out a week or so ago ‘read the sub heading’, it is no longer a site for 4/3rds exclusively but Oly and Panna generally, I wonder if that includes Leica or Sony come to that!!!!!.
There’s not enough going on in the M4/3 world to get two or three “headlines” every day.
These pieces, and all the sales notices, are nothing but filler.
I agree with you entirely Jeff, myself I’d rather see less but of better quality than what is becoming the trash can of rumours.
It would be much better, and way more fun, if there were more actual rumors! I’m talking FT2 and FT3.
Admin holds out for fully formed info, FT5, that’s beyond rumor status. I understand where he’s coming from, building a solid reputation, but it means few rumors and more rebate ads.
1 inch and 1/2,3 of an inch respectively.
I’d love to see an Olympus TG-5 with a 1″ sensor.
since years i am waiting for a bigger sensor in the TG series …..
Exactly! These are Olympus’ best cameras.
Why neglect them with minor, incremental upgrades?
Is coming but no more F2.0 .
F2.8 for 1″ sensor , buy or no buy ?
I’d buy it. Sounds great.
Sorry Marco, but for us non-Europeans, what does 1/2,3 mean? The comma means nothing to us in the US. Is this larger that 1″
The comma is used as a decimal mark: 1½ = 1,5 = 1.5 . The 1″ sensor is approx. four times bigger than the 1/2.3″, scroll down in this article to see some comparisons: http://www.gizmag.com/camera-sensor-size-guide/26684/
TZ101 looks like a mini Leica T to me… Perhaps that can save the Leica badge engineering team from seeking design input from Audi Design AG.
oh my 299,- 4k Camera is coming…. fine.. the 3th. year of big 4k marketta and nobody
realy wants to buy it, in some pricetags.. so this fine normal 8bit crappies would it be..
299,- and no cent more..if not nobuy!!!
Your being ridiculous if you think that a camera with these specifications will go for a penny less than $500. They will sell it for $700, and people will buy it. There is no comparable camera on the market, and the other cameras that it might compete with cost $700-1000.
I’m surprised you could make sense out of all of that!!! Hahaha! 299 us unreasonable. 700 sounds more like it.
Soon 1 inch sensors will be common place and will only cost 299 for a new model. Right now they are eating it up.
The TZ101 sounds really nice – basically the fictional camera I’ve wanted to replace my now-defunct Oly XZ-1 ever since the Stylus 1 was released (which is a bit too big for my purposes). 10x zoom with a fastish lens, or in this case a large sensor – on a 1/1.7″-type sensor an equivalent lens would be roughly f/1.7-3.5 (compare to the Stylus 1’s constant f/2.8, or the XZ-1’s f/1.8-2.5 on a much shorter range), but keep the size down by making the zoom wider, and no protruding EVF hump or tiltscreen. I hope it has fast operation and perhaps a silent shutter. The screen resolutions sound a bit low for 2016?
I wonder if other manufacturers are going to release similar cameras. That would be nice.
It’s a 900k dot screen, on par with everyone else. Everything is in pixels not dots. The the VF is 1.4 million dot.
I love that RGB-PIXEL definition they’re using! Just forget the damn “dots”
Very much agree. Kind of sad that they have to specify “RGB pixel”, but that’s where we are since all the camera manufacturers thought it would be clever and impressive to refer to “dots”.
Even better than RGB pixels would be the actual HxV resolution, but that’s probably asking too much.
anyone have an idea how fast the TZ101 lens stops down – so is it at F5.9 at 150mm for example – I noticed that my Sony RX100m4 24-70mm stops down quicker then my Canon G7X at 24-100mm – i can live with F4 at 150mm but F5.9 would be sad as the Canon G7X is F2.8 at 100mm – It is nice that more than Sony is coming out with compacts with 1 inch sensor –
Nikon with a new body soon – Fuji as well but I suspect the X70 will have the same body of the X30 so not really a competitor due to being much larger –
I am ok with the FZ101 as a zoom camera – but I also like to see Panasonic come out with a direct RX100m4 competitor – with 24-100mm F1.8-2.8 lens – 4K that lasts longer then 3-5min – Touch LCD – Touch Shutter – and with the nice Panasonic menu system with soft FN buttons – and C1 C2 modes – for $750-800 – I really think it would put a serious dent into the RX100m4 sales – the RX100m4 really needs a competitor – $1000 is way to much for such a small camera even though it is very high tech –
It is likely 5.9 by 70mm.
Also the RX100 has 2 direct competitors. The lx100 and the g7x.
I would find that hard to believe my guess is maybe in worst case F4.0 at 100mm and F5.9 at 120mm – on the other point, The RX100 has a 24-100mm F1.8-4.9 lens vs the RX100m4 has a 24-70mm F1.8-2.8 lens –
The LX100 is larger and has a M43 sensor – I can see the LX100 and Canon G5X maybe more of competitors as both are larger then the RX100/m2/m3/m4 and the G7X and FZ101 –
I wouldn’t doubt it. It’s going to be a small camera with a long zoom with a large sensor.
I haven’t a clue where the RX100 mk1 came into this. I was responding directly to you. You were talking about the mk4. It would be a safe assumption,that I would be as well. The G5x is also a competitor to the RX100 MK4, so is the G9x.
They are all in the same segment. There are 100’s of posts (if not 1000’s)of people trying to decide between the lx100, G7x and the RX100 mk4.
With the RX100 mk4 being BARELY pocketable. It’s just how it is. Basically it’s either the FZ1000/rx10 segment(large). Or the lx100/rx100mk4 segment(small). The TZ100 is likely going to be too much of a compromise. Just like how the G7x/G5x are(the lens sucks ass).
Well I wrote a lengthy response but I guess the MOD won’t allow it for some odd reason.
It’s not worth rewriting the response.
Finally fullsensor readout for video no more panasonic 4K crop ?
This camera sounds extremely impressive. The size is barely larger than the RX100, particularly in the most critical depth dimension (just 3mm thicker), and is dramatically more versatile.
I really hope they price it at $699. Probably too optimistic for what it offers, it competes more directly with the ~$900 1″ superzooms than the pocket cameras, but with a much more compact form factor.
mhh…f/1.8-4.9 vs f/2.8-5.9 …thats 1stop behind always
1 stop behind, and all you get is 2.5x the range…