Yeah I would be surprised to see alot of 'non professionals' buying the gh5 to film their family holidays at the £2000 mark. ! I would be surpised even if the jobbing wedding videographer would pay this price over something like the G80?!?

Panasonic seemed to have, as you said created purposely a bigger price gap between the G line and the GH line, to differentiate between the two markets. To me the G line going forward will be the market I will be focused on, with my first purchase being the G80...

Pretty much spot on then with your prediection?..I assume the GH5 will come in around the same price, if not more

Why the mystery of Panasonic of dont publish the official specifications? Anyway, dont be able to acquire through 2017.

GH became canon C line now :) In 2300 EU price range JVC 300 is nearly there. G80 is preferably new good line for me but small battery is a deal breaker. Tough decisions a head

I don't expect we'll see less than $2000 for the GH5. I wouldn't be too surprised to see $2500, and I will still pay it, assuming that it'll have IBIS, dual cards, and decent bitrates. At those specs nothing else is even close, unless Sony steps up afterwards, but I expect that if they do they'll want closer to $4000.

I also think that Panasonic is on the track of reconstructing their Lumix lines. GH is for cinematographer 4K CINE, G for anything less than 4K CINE, GX for pro photographer with less interest in video, GF for vlogs and selfiers, and GM for light point and shot. Yes, it means GH future line will up in price and their current position will be taken by G line.

Panasonic may saw that not every videographer is doing 4K CINE. By doing this kind of reconstruction, Panasonic will provit more from GH and G line.

I see BHPhoto are stating the GH5 will be out 'SUMMER' 2017.

I told - actual expected time for first batch shipping is from March 2017 to more real August 2017.

Thats a fair time to go, wonder if the GH4 will get any FW Fixes between now and then?

None, except some lens support related or small bug fix.

@manu4Vendetta I do not know. I am not Panasonic. Hahaha..

Maybe GH5 is targeting AGF100 users that in search for smaller form factor but already invest on m43. Maybe they will introduce, or they already?, super35 format as the successor of AGF100? Again, I do not know... it is a speculation

I would be surpised even if the jobbing wedding videographer would pay this price over something like the G80?!?

Why not? Many many many MANY wedding videographers leapt onto buying the 5Dmk3 back in its time, and a 5Dmk3 cost back then far far more than a GH5 will ever cost.

@Ironfilm Because at the time the Mk3 outclassed anything else image wise...these days you can get a great great image, a better image than the mk3 at around the £500 mark..

Panasonic's own website says "Early 2017." https://www.panasonic.com/global/consumer/lumix/gh5.html

It says early 2017 for gh5. Someone on BH site guesses it means summer.

Also, there is conflicting information about color bit depth for the g85/g80. As usual these companies do not want consumers to know this information when the bit depth is 8bit 420. Hopefully it will be 422 on its release.

At least B&H is honest with customers.

Now we only need another small quake :-)