@DocoDocoMan will be interesting, but the problem with the Panny lens is severe resolution loss, very narrow interaxial (good for closeup stuff though) and IIRC F12 widest aperature. It produces a side-by-side image which needs to be additionally cropped, so you already loose more than half the horizontal resolution per view.

You probably know it has been hacked by others for use in Lumix and other cameras, eg. GH2:

furthermore it's not a 3D topic..

Afternoon guys. I hate to say but lasts night even was a bit of a let down. It was actually Marco Solorio from One River Media there and he only brought the 4K and wasn't able to answer and of the questions about the BMPC. Sorry about getting everyone worked up but they gave out false info.

Both, it resolves to take 1K from your bank account and then lets you make a 2K movie!

thanks for the clarification, so it's not that far from the 2.5k version. hehehe

Sounds like it will ship with RAW capability enabled. Still no word on whether RAW will write to 45Mb/sec cards or require the faster 95Mb/sec Extreme Pro cards. I wouldn't mind higher compression if it allowed for footage to write to slower cards, but I assume encoder throughput could be limited in that regard.

Ordered mine the day after it was announced from BH, hope I'm on the first batch list. I've got a shoot on August 24-25th and I'd love to have this as an option.

Pocket cam as the A camera and GH3 for slo mo, should be a sweet combination.

@Trumpetman Right on.. or GH2 which most of us already own.

@double_vision

Why not consider GH3? Its 1080p60 video quality is best Panasonic can offer at the moment.

GH2 is a compromise because it can only do 720p60. G6 is a compromise because it can only do 28Mbps.

I've had a G6 (euro version) for a few days now, shot some usual "banal cityscapes and trees" tests and the result is tolerable. Image compression quality is not as good as on hacked GH2, but considering it's 1080p50@28Mbps, not bad either.

If you will be filming people with good light(ing) and not much movement in frame, G6 might be good enough. But GH3 will likely be better as it has much higher video bitrate and better features overall, except for focus peaking of course.

@kazuo BMPC is my A camera, I pre-ordered on the second day of NAB. Now Im looking for a B camera to compliment my bmpc. Gh3 is a good camera, it's just out of my budget right now.

@neokoo I normally shot travel video, Im doing this as my hobby, not for a living. So gh3 is out of reach since I already dedicate my money to the pocket. This video below basically will explain 90% of what I normally shot. Do you think G6 can pull this kind of quality shot for the slow motion parts

I hv been shooting with a hacked GH2 for almost 1.5 years now, and have completed 30 commissioned films/videos / TV programmes with it. It has all the problems documented here, but it's also elevated some aspects of my work. Any camera is but a tool, and in capable hands, it can be optimised to encapsulate any vision. What's most important is that a filmmaker has to have a vision and sense of direction. 13 stops is good to have, but it's pointless if you are using it to pixel peep and not much else.

I recently bought a Sony VG20 which I have since discovered is a different creature altogether. It has taken some flak (which I feel is rather harsh, or unjustified) but again in capable hands, boy can the camera sing.

I have also jumped onto the BMPC bandwagon. It'll be an exciting camera to explore. Will I be seeking to sell the other 2 that have served me well?

Not unless I am desperately strapped for cash.

@neokoo and @kazuo thanks guys for the advices. I will limit myself with the pocket for now, I believe the joy of coloring and getting all the details with 13 stops is the same as coloring raw photo, which I really enjoy doing. I will wait until the gh3 price goes down, then I'll snatch a used one. I believe slow motion plug in like twixtor will help me a bit with my pocket footage.