@driftwood! great analysis! thank's for your effort.

Panasonic performance from yesterday press conference

http://www.personal-view.com/photokina/coverage/market-and-other

Looks like big number of GF2 and GF3 played their role.

@otcx

I think they had been in same place for long already :-)

mini HDMI TypeC Video: Auto / 1080p / 1080i / 720p / 480p (576p in PAL system) Audio: Dolby® Digital

@otcx

Yes, all is present in specs and wiki.

I'm uploading the RAW files to mediafire. If all goes well I will have a link within ~90m. Noise patterns in ISO1600 RAW look amazing!!! It's 9x150MB zip files and at the moment there are still 5 to go. The folder is here: http://www.mediafire.com/?y7w7adcx989mn

What about CABAC ??

It's among the most powerful characteristic of h.264 encoding, can save up to 20% (against CAVLC) when quantizers climb high ...

@Vitaliy You are right, but somebody on other forums was still saying it was multiaspect. Let's say it's a second evidence.

You can check http://twitter.com/igor29768 from time to time, as Igor is at the show now :-)

Still sad about the lack of 120fps option :-( They had the processing power for it.. LX7 has no manual shutter in 120fps and it flickers like crazy under fluoro.

What can I tell you...

Igor tells that guys on Panasonic stand are the same. Dumb as hell.
Cameras number did not changed. Still exactly ONE camera.

If anyone gets a chance to take some more pics with the camera and your own card, please take a couple of low-ISO black frame stills (put on the lens cap, manual mode, fast shutter speed, ISO 200, two frames). Two frames for higher ISOs (400, 800, 1600) would be useful too. The goal would be to compute sensor the read noise, and hence infer something about the possible dynamic range. From the RW2's I've seen so far, it's basically the same 12-bit RAW format.

Same as GH2.