According to the website eosHD “In what is being billed as another sizeable revolution in the camera world, Panasonic is set to unveil a shutter-less DSLR. Billed as a ‘global shutter’ and marketed as HD Progressive, Panasonic will for now reserve this feature only for their high end range of camcorders and the GH2.
Panasonic is set to release the LX4 and G2 in February, but the GH2 will wait until the 2nd half of 2010 according to my source in Asia. Rather than do a yearly update of the GH line, Panasonic want to bring a greater incremental step to the ‘luxury’ line.“,,,”The global shutter also creates the possibility of an entirely silent camera. Goodbye shutter click. On a DSLR a global shutter requires greater power demands and causes the sensor to run hot, but Panasonic were able to develop one because their modern CMOS processing plant can shrink a chip below 35 nanometers, which coupled with the relatively small (in DSLR terms) sensor size of the Micro 4/3rds format allows the chip to run cooler.“
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Any more rumors, news or specs about the upcoming G2?………….thanks
Without moving parts inside the camera housing there will by no dust and so they could fully seal the housing.
Wow!!! If the global shutter implemented in the GH2 means a silent camera, I will upgrade
my GH1 as soon as the GH2 is available. For me this feature alone is worth the upgrade.
And here is how Leica dies…
That would be a killer feature on a GF body.
Maybe a bit less desirable on a GH body if it is at the expense of a compromise on IQ
The LX3 is not being replaced in the spring, according to my panasonic rep. As far as I know, it will remain current until the fall.
Not exactly the first one – remember Olympus E-100 RS which had an electronic shutter 8 years ago.
…I forgot about FPS advantage of this type of sensor…
it *is* a killer feature.
This will sure be the next break-through feature in digital cameras!
Sorry for off topic, but:
how do the current m4/3 meter the exposure? Before exposure or while exposing? I love my OM-2 because it determines the right exposure from the film plane when exposing. Great feature for extra long exposures and in constantly changing light (bands etc…)
this new GH2 FT2 rumors add some credit to the previous GH2 FT2 rumors where “global shutter” (and other nice features) was mentionned !
No mechanical shutter means you cannot break it in an ages no matter how hard you try and absolute silence within exposing. This is a milestone because it highly improve camera reliability in extreme conditions and makes it an ideal digital camera (in terms of shutter sound) for documentary and candid photography. Good news 43rumors, keep up with great work.
I do hope that this technology will eventually find it way to Olympus 4/3 cameras or m4/3 cameras.
What I want is a Oly/Pan full frame so I can put my Leica glass onto state of the art sensor tech! Pen body with full frame…make it happen!
Impressive. Another great innovation. Things are moving up for the world of photography.
If it’s true (only an FT2), and I have my suspicions, then this could be huge! Having a fourthirds sensor that can give great IQ with an electronic sensor will really give both microfourthirds and fourthirds a competitive advantage in some areas.
For example,
it opens the floodgates for much more responsive burst shooting, with very low blackout.
it allows the creative use of multiple exposures in close succession for things like near single shot HDR, or variable exposure times per pixel for clean single shot tone mapped shots.
Silent shooting, more silent than P&S’s that use leaf shutters which are already near silent
limitless flash sync speed!
There’s probably countless other possiblities too.
Apparently it’s difficult to get the IQ right though, I recall the D70s had a partial electronic shutter, and some of the IQ effects weren’t worth the effort of the 1/500th sync speed.
Oh wow, now panasonic needs to make a better high ISO chip or introduce Body IS. And Im switching from my olympus ep2 to a panasonic GH2.
Thank god for the M4/3 mount. Your not as stuck as with a Canon or Nikon camera.
I can understand the logic behind less heat generated with smaller sensor (less area, therefore less pixels and electronic transistors), but can anybody explain to me why drawing more power into a smaller process (35nm, therefore density must be higher) can help it run cooler? Most of the energy runs into a processor chip (such as CPU) is wasted and released in the form of heat unless the process is more efficient (but that’s not due to mold size per se).
No shutter = longer life of camera. Though I don’t think having no sound is that much a deal for regular photography. But longer life is the major thing. How does Panasonic achieve this? Electronically shuts off sensor? I am curious.
It won’t be happening this year.
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Reluctant to give a date for the arrival of the first generation of interchangeable lens cameras with electronic shutter, ensuring that next year will be impossible, so it could be 2011. “It’s one of the issues we are investigating,” he says.
One thing nobody’s mentioned yet is that global shutter could (should?) eliminate the notorious jello effect of CMOS-based VDSLRs… This could result in the first *true* hybrid. Now let’s just hope that Panasonic gets a better codec than that of the GH1…
But I guess the lens iris still makes some small “crick” sound when it closes down at the moment of exposure and opens again after it.. how does that sound, current m43 owners?
did anyone bother actually going to eoshd.com ?? this appears to be the case of the cheshire cat chasing it’s own tail !
well, my g11 has some kind of a shutter, you could say it is the iris closing just before exposing and it still makes some noise, making it useless for indoors sound recording. I guess the iris of a bigger lens would make even more noise so still noting for me with the gh2. except maybe with the option of not using iris at all and exposing wide open, which I find acceptable.
as for the heat, things might be worse, as this means a lot more noise in the images.
Another question to the GH2: Is there a chance to get JPEG-XR.
The new jpeg is released for one year now.
The GH2 with this feature would have all what I look for.