GH5 Panasonic camera, from anticipation to love or hate

Sage

Quite promising.. shame there is no MAR; I will likely wait until they follow through on the updates.. because you never know..

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Posted press release at http://www.personal-view.com/faqs/gh5-notes/gh5-notes

touviere7

Vesku

New focussing tool is the focus pull setting. This allows you to define two focus points using the touchscreen, then smoothly shift from one to the other. The speed of transition can be varied from 1 to 5.

Great!

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Btw, preorder is available

http://www.adorama.com/ipcdcgh5.html

EU https://www.parkcameras.com/panasonic-GH5

But I strongly suggest to avoid preordering this camera for now, wait for April. Small personal tip.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@Vesku

It sounds great - but implementation is usually awful.

lmackreath

Why wait?.. something you know that we don't or are you advising us just to wait for the real world reviews to come out first before handing over the cash?

theSUBVERSIVE

Some video modes have HEVC H.265 but it's not clear all modes supports it. It would be interesting then if they could implement an All-I version of H.265 as well, not just the 400 Mbbps H.264 codec.

Vesku

It has "my menu" for favorite menu items. Great!

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@lmackreath

Because Panasonic is now in very shaky mode. Including this announcement with "planned" firmware upgrades and forced paid V-Log (this was compromise after lowering initial margin). In April we must see next round of this theater spectacle. It is not actually the wait, as any GH camera GH5 will be available in tiny amounts before April.

smoke23

I was one of the first to receive a GH4 two years ago and had to send it in for repair for the "audio hiss" issue, so I'll wait a little while.

Tron

I'm gonna wait as well... maybe they'll throw in the XLR adapter for free if sales don't come in as expected, or drop the price when Sony answers with yet another camera.

EspenB

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Are you suggesting price cuts in the near future?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Previews

Do not assume that '6K Photo' mode is taking images from an area of the sensor 6000 pixels across: it isn't. Instead it's capturing images with the roughly the same number of pixels as a very widescreen 6000 x 3000 video clip would have. Just cheap marketing trick.

Eno

I've downloaded the higher res GH5 front image (from Dpreview) and compared the sensor size with the Gh4.

Comparing the two different sensor sizes, I've approximately calculated the Gh5 sensor must be 19,185 mm in length and 13,735 mm in height.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@EspenB

They did not decided themselves yet. Can be cut up to $400, or free stuff thrown, including XLR adapter and V-LOG codes.

EspenB

@Eno Yes, something fishy are going on!

Even in the presentation video the sensor seems wider than the GH4 sensor.

(Could be a fake creative render which takes liberties?)

The numers you list seem to indicate 1:1.4 aspect ratio.

chipxsd

Apparently camera shoots 4K video in h264, whereas 6K photo is encoded in h265 no mention of the bit depth in 6K nor the chroma subsampling reference:

Vesku

GH5 sensor may look bigger because it has 22Mpixel total and 20Mpixel used. I wonder If RAW photos can use 22Mpixel with some Raw program.

Dark_Blue

They say here the reason for the firmware update is limitation of speed in current cards, and the update is scheduled to coincide with the release of the newer cards. Kind of a strange reason for not including the mentioned bitrates in the first place.