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2014 m43 cameras, including GH5 aka 4K Wizard
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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    http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9542/gh4-aka-gh5-4k-video-camera

  • RatLabProductionsRatLabProductions

    @DrDave

    The XLR on the C300 is really just a breakout box connected to the handle via fragile cables and that camera is $14k. I personal don't see the big deal as long as it's integrated well.

  • DrDaveDrDave

    An XLR attachment-or breakout box--might be handy, but it isn't the same as having XLRs built into the cam body. It is the same as using an adapter.

  • AriaAria

    @Vesku, I think it's probably unlikely they'll increase the size of the GH3 body style in a new GH4K body. As for a more comfortable EVF, I presume you mean the eye cup part? If so that's a user upgradeable part and I can't imagine that's a high priority issue either. Both of these things can be addressed by the user if someone gets creative IMO or you could perhaps create a product that fixes those issues if you believe it's an issue many people find to be similarly impractical.

    I think the GH3 form factor is good enough for most and easily enhanced with minimalist rig bits widely available. I'm just curious to see what the final product is really gonna be. We never got the XLR attachment that was rumored for the GH3, so maybe this time they'll do that.

  • LongJohnSilverLongJohnSilver

    GH4K fever is rising with rumors sites recycling always the same shit as new :)

  • VeskuVesku

    @Aria

    I like the GH3 body. I just hope minor improvements in ergonomics like more comfortable EVF and better button layout. Handgrip could be even larger too. Now it is a bit hard to hold camera steady for a long time.

  • AriaAria

    I don't get why anyone thinks the GH4K would have to have a different body than the GH3. Canon didn't change the body style for their 4K 1DC version of their DSLR. Who knows if Pany even has to change anything major with the Gh3 in order to enable 4K. I'm sure there is some technical improvements that have to be made, but it may not require a change in the form of the camera in general.

  • CdeCde

    @mrbill I think the potential gains are much higher with such an aggressive strategy.

    But such thinking wouldn't fly in a Japanese boardroom.

  • mrbillmrbill

    @riker - because that would eat into sales of their professional range

  • HaznaHazna

    which is it 422 or raw?

  • RikerRiker

    What doesn't GH4K come out guns blazing balls to the walls RAW 12 bit 422 4K video, wouldn't that just stomp any or all of their competition and make everyone in this hybrid video niche switch to their products? I don't get it.

  • LongJohnSilverLongJohnSilver

    @IronFilm yes just a vanilla GH3 with a sticker... We need a real "fake" photo :)

  • IronFilmIronFilm

    @LongJohnSilver well it has "kinda" been leaked, with a mock up shown at the trade show. But that was just a normal GH3 with a new badge on it, I think.

  • JaskettiJasketti

    This is giving me GAS :) however its likely going to be christmas again before its really available.

  • LongJohnSilverLongJohnSilver

    According to two trusted sources Panasonic will launch the new 4K Micro Four Thirds camera on February 7. As you already know the camera will cot a bit less than $2,000 and can record at amazing 200Mps and has ALL-I intra mode. Via 43rumors

    It's strange that just two weeks before the launch nobody at Pana leaked a real photo... :)

  • RenovatioRenovatio

    I'm going to see if we will need an external recorder to have that 4.2.2 10bit..

  • CdeCde

    Well, they did say it would release in February.

    Looking forward to video samples.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    According to two trusted sources Panasonic will launch the new 4K Micro Four Thirds camera on February 7. As you already know the camera will cot a bit less than $2,000 and can record at amazing 200Mps and has ALL-I intra mode. Via 43rumors

    Huh

  • Ian_TIan_T

    Ok thanks @Vitaliy_Kiselev

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @Ian_T

    Some news must be in February, not much until it.

  • Ian_TIan_T

    So what's going on with this camera? Any other news?

  • GravitateMediaGroupGravitateMediaGroup

    @cfreak

    ahhhh, I see. Thanks

  • PsycoPsyco

    @GeoffreyKenner If you take the 256 palette of 4 pixels and add them together you end up with 4x256 = 1024. The process needed here is the opposit of dithering. You sum up the 8bit information in 2x2 pixel-blocks and map them to 1 pixel with 10bit.

    It wouldn't work on pixel-blocks with the exact same colour, but with sensor noise always introducing some variations it would work with most pixels in a real image.

    The above will definitly work with 4:4:4 sampling. 4:2:0 sampling will make things more problematic, but I haven't had a look at this - so, I don't know but my guess is, it is possible to transform 4k 8bit 4:2:0 -> 2k 10 bit 4:2:0.

    (An algorithm like this can easily be added to programms like 5DtoRGB.)

  • CFreakCFreak

    @GravitateMediaGroup Instead of saying its a "DSLR" they are using the new and correct moniker "DSLM" for Digital Single Lens Mirrorless instead of "DSLR" where "R" stands for "Reflex". This is a term coming from the the introduction of the "SLR" (film camera) to differentiate it from a "Twin-Lens Reflex" (Rolleiflex, Rolleicord type camera) and a Rangefinder camera (Leica M series (the cameras with a little side window for parallax viewing, for example) back in the 1960's.

    Basically for you and me, it just means the camera & viewfinder system need only one lens. Seems obvious in this day and age, but, it's a term from yesteryear and the Japanese speaking person who made the display may have lost something in translation, but, actually didn't. "DSLM" is quite correct.

  • GravitateMediaGroupGravitateMediaGroup

    in the gh4 pics above, what do they mean by "single lens"

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