Is G5 better than GH2?

When HDMI is connected and looking at external monitor, can we shoot 1080 50p ?

@kihlian The hi bitrate mov modes on the gh3 are High Profile level 5. However, G5 has comparable avchd 1080p50/60 modes to the gh3. Ill be running full tests nxt week when Im back from chile.

@driftwood Good to hear. After I saw the encoder perf on the GH3 test clips I was hoping someone would take a look at the G5 encoder perf.

@adventsam

If its like the G3 then you can lockdown the shutterspeed with the flicker reduction and works in video mode.

You have no controls over aperture (unless using a manual lens).iso though. I also found the AE lock goes auto after hitting record. AF lock works while recording.

You can adjust exposure (EV)..but iso and aperture (on panny lenses) will adjust in relation to it. So basically you only have some limited control on shutter speed.

It kind of reminds me of the Nikons d5100 :-D

I like the G5 (white one) shame no manual controls...may pick one up when cheap for the wife.

Actually i think that setting the shutter speed is sufficient for most tasks! Just use a variable ND filter to select the wanted aperture: Just switch to S mode, select 1/50 shutter speed (or whatever you have selected as flickr reduction option), half press the shutter to start metering and use the ND filter to select the aperture (while keeping iso at 160). If you now start to record a movie, it will use the selected aperture (because auto always tries to keep ISO low).

The only problem, which remains is the lack of AE lock. But this is probably something which could easily added with a firmware hack.

DxO has measured G5 sensor. So far it looks like it's the best Panasonic has ever released in M43 realm. Great b-cam for GH2, it even slightly outperforms its bigger brother in low-light.

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Cameras/Compare-Camera-Sensors/Compare-cameras-side-by-side/(appareil1)/816|0/(brand)/Panasonic/(appareil2)/793|0/(brand2)/Olympus/(appareil3)/677|0/(brand3)/Panasonic

You can capture whatever dynamic range you like within whatever bit depth you like. The two metrics have no bearing on one another.

Hoping that manual video control and multi-aspect can be enabled by some clever sort on this camera. Would that even be possible?

@OASYS

You assume perfectly linear sensitivity and no processing.
It can be not the case here.

In a 12bit Raw file, it should only have linear data so in principle the maximal DR is 12Ev. That's what I cannot understand.

It is wrong assumption. Data is not perfectly linear, and some processing is made for raw anyway.

@ http://www.personal-view.com/talks/profile/1650/OASYS "You're right. I assumed DxOmark measures the sensitivity of a sensor before any further processing such as gamma conversion. In a 12bit Raw file, it should only have linear data so in principle the maximal DR is 12Ev. That's what I cannot understand. (DR of G5 is 11.6Ev, that of EM-5 is 12.3Ev?)"

OASYS these numbers are the "Print DR" where Dxo theoretically calculates the DR not per pixel but after resampling 16Mp to 8Mp. This gives 1/2 stop increase. The per pixel DR is the "Screen DR" in our case 11.1 and 11.8 stops.

There is more to this....

Your assumption that raw files are linearly encoded is (almost) correct. I wrote (Almost) because there is a suspicion for some recent models (D7000, D800, D4) that the manufacturers started to use non linear data (at the brightest 1/3 stop). Some raw file researchers observed that the SNR curves which DxO provides don't exactly fit on the theoretical model .. thus the suspicion. But even so, they (the manufacturers) linearize the non linear data before they write the raw file so that all raw converters do their job on linear data... and in our case DxO measures are on linear (or maybe linearized) raw data.

Your assumption that a 12bit raw pixel limits the DR at 12 stops is wrong because per definition DR is Max_signal/noise. Well ... this is the so called "engineering DR", DxO uses a slightly different definition Max_signal/Level where SNR=1.
Keep in mind that noise is stochastic value and so it can be a fraction of the used unit. If noise could be zero DR could be infinite.... In our case (digital photo) there is always some "read noise" but even if in a magic way a manufacturer can eliminate it at zero, in a n-bit encoded raw there will exist the quantization noise which is the stdev of a uniform distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_error and this equals to 0.29. So the max (engineering) DR that a n-bit file can hold is n+1.8 ..

http://forum.dxomark.com/index.php/topic,198.0.html

May I ask? As The G5 is about half the price of the GH3 and will share the same sensor and frame rates that are ideal Is there plans for a hack? If so will it be any time soon as this seems more appealing to buy than the GH2 due to the new improved MOS sensor and ergenomic (grip).

Hope someone can provide a G5 Raw file in 3:2 or 16:9 so we can see the possibility of multi-aspect function.