"film community" is bullshit for a company like this one. the number of sells they need to achieve global profitability for the entire company require million of young mothers and childrens crying to have coolish panasonic products... not quite yet. the few bucks of the poor wannabe filmaker are a joke (or a marketing bonus at least) in the consumer market.

Panasonic will roll out about five new compact digital cameras next year, half this year's number, in a bid to return a segment besieged by smartphone cameras to profitability by fiscal 2014.

The 2014 crop of new arrivals will center on pricey offerings that cost 30,000 yen ($296) or more, set apart by such features as high-magnification zoom.

The company will focus on mirrorless single-lens models, with the diminutive 274-gram Lumix GM set to go on sale Thursday and another device capable of capturing 4K ultra-high-definition video also slated for development.

While Panasonic will continue to produce its more affordable offerings, it is considering OEM arrangements for models under 20,000 yen. The company will work to increase sales of lenses, which have other uses such as in surveillance cameras, and move their production in-house.

Panasonic anticipates a second consecutive year of losses for its digital camera business in fiscal 2013 on the back of weak sales of compact offerings. Global digital camera sales are expected to shrink by over 2 million units this fiscal year to about 4 million.

http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Panasonic-to-halve-digital-camera-releases-in-2014

@ahbleza

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/8745/new-m43-panasonic-sensor-with-4k-support-mn34230pl#Item_16

We had the topic quite a while before Voldemort wrote his usual big post about things he have no idea about.

New rumors on modular design. A Frankenstein, sort of

Will we see a GH3 hack before this new cam? :)

H.265 "recording" will be a curse, not a blessing. You thought H.264 was bad for editing, you ain't seen nuthin' yet!

In order to get decent 10 bit-12bit UHD (and even 8k) into a smaller deliverable package for streaming, disc, and broadcast media the codec had to have an entirely new level of complexity built in. This will demand much more CPU intensive decompression than before and far more headaches for NLE's.

And an entirely new round of transcoding will have to be implemented for the poor souls continuing to have to suffer the use of consumer-grade cameras in order to shoot.

The industry really, really, really must come up with a high quality editable recording codec for consumer gear shown to be popular for the indie filmmaker crowd.

4:3 full size video recording please!!!

This one is quite improbable. As it is not very trendy now :-)

But I think it could be really good idea.

I think whole video settings must be divided into three parts.

• Sensor mode (scan window size, position), so you can specify any aspect or work in 1:1 mode. And FPS with 1 fps step above 1 fps, and 0.01 step below it.
• Color science that allow to define any parameters of raw->picture processing, including LUT, sharpness, etc
• Record mode that allow to record in any mode. So you can even record 4:3 picture into 16:9. And specify any FPS you like (as video container setting).

For me, 4k or 2k/1080p is irrelevant. What matters is the quality of the frame. How detail is rendered, falloff, dynamic range and so on. A good quality 1080p upscaled frame will look better than a poor quality 4k frame (in 4k viewing).

We´re finally at a point where very, very high quality 1080p is available, for very very little money. Do I want to trade that of for a poor 4k frame? No thanks.

@Ironfilm 43rumors cites and link eos. They posted at the same time and he specified Berlin time too. So it seems they worked together for this leak

Personally, I hope any new video-dominant camera Panasonic releases is more robust ergonomically than their GH line. I don't like the idea of strapping all kinds of things to a GH body to make it functional for video. That's just no fun in the field. That was the primary strength of the AF, (it's noted IQ issues notwithstanding). Plus, justifiably or not, the form factor of a robust video camera puts clients at ease. I have a really hard time pulling a GH2 out of the bag for a client shoot when I have to spend the first 15 minutes defending it. This has happened!

Are we talking about AVCUltra? It's spec'd for 4K, and Panasonic Broadcast doesn't have any other proprietary "codec" outside of Intra that handles 4K. If I remember right, Ultra is H264 or no?

Not sure if this is off-topic.

Ahhhh good point... if it's HEVC that makes more sense. I assumed it was AVCUltra(ish), that's where the MicroP2 came from. Yours is the more likely scenario, but, have we seen any HEVC implementations in cameras yet?

There's definitely a lot in the rumors that was supposed to go into the GH3 or the next iteration of the GH cameras, I haven't really been paying attention to the DSLR side and any rumors around here, but again it sounds about right.

Actually, the only thing that doesn't make sense is the 10-Bit 422... that suggests that Panasonic's going to go against their own M.O. and allow users to try media from other brands... or, they're going to force MicroP2, which would be the most reliable implementation at a hefty cost.

I hope it's not MicroP2, or it's going to be a really tough sell for a lot of people. Think Sandisk 64gb Extreme PRos cost a lot... check MicroP2 prices.

Why do they send all the secret shit to L.A. or Berlin? I've got pretty girls, pretty jungle, pretty architecture, and academy award nominated producer and international publication cred...hoooola Panasonic Latin America, land where endless Lumixes are sold, send some shit to PTY!

Pretty exciting if this is true, anyhow.