@svart, agreed, they gave us a lot of features! But I did not ask them to outsource the sensor and turn my 11mm prime back into a 14mm prime.

Must have wideangle! Anyway the battery looks good, and I bet it is so cheap they will just be giving free batteries extra with every cam.

One think I liked about the gh1 was you could plug it into the wall and run it all day without getting warm right outta the box. What I would really like to see is just an AC port that is accessible on the side of the cam so you can power the beast and charge the battery without taking it off the fracking tripod and you have seamless backup in case the AC goes out. Now supposedly you can squeeze the battery out with the GH3 on the tripod--assuming you are the only person on the planet who uses the tripod at exactly 90 degrees on the QR plate--but that doesn't solve your power problem. Just put an AC port on the thing. Like all of my nine Canon Camcorders. OK, eight, I sold one. I mean this is basic stuff, you want pro features, well, pros use a big fat tripod. I don't want to drag a fake battery around made out of fake plastic that replaces the only real battery in the camera.

I'm not saying I don't like the upgrades, it just isn't really pro. Pro=gradable HDMI vid, pro=phantom power, 24 bit audio, plus, and here is the kicker, the one in the pictures does not have any little white marks on the Nav wheel. Great. Lost in the dark. I'm sure its a great cam, just not my ideal pro cam, that's all. Give me actual zoom that looks as good as a $200 camcorder zoom--smooth, quiet, holds focus. Give me on-the-fly dynamic compression that dials all the blown highlights under and dials up all the crushed black up without looking like a cat accident. Maybe we will see some steps in DR department.

@CameraEnthusiast

Vitaly, just curious, but, if you believe that 4-2-0, 4-2-2 and 4-4-4 aren't difficult to achieve, than, why are GH2 users being denied that kind of hack?

You mixed different things. I talked about HDMI output, not about H.264 encoding. But H.264 encoding with better color resolution is also nothing terrible difficult, it just must be assumed from the start of hardware design.

Vitaly, just curious, but, if you believe that 4-2-0, 4-2-2 and 4-4-4 aren't difficult to achieve, than, why are GH2 users being denied that kind of hack? (Please don't mention the Apocalypse 4-4-4 Hack. It was Nowhere even close. As a matter of fact, the FlowMotion and some of Driftwood's hacks, seemed more promising. Though, none any better than 4-2-0.) Also, why don't you volunteer to Panasonic, to Improve the Firmware on the GH3, if you are so confident, that it is such a simple task?

JPEG/RAW samples taken at Photokina had long been available - link: http://www.mediafire.com/?y7w7adcx989mn

Just added to http://www.personal-view.com/photokina/coverage/gh3 also

@aked thanks for filming and uploading, most appreciated :)

I dont understand the argument that Panasonic put 4:2:0 on purpose to not be in competition with its "pro" line of video cameras. That is absolute nonsense. Give us 4:2:2 and put 4:4:4 in your pro line cameras and thats a good start. For how long will they cripple their own technology? What, are they some kind of magicians who want to keep a trick in their sleeve just in case of?! "oh no let's not give them what they want even if doesnt cost us a dime more. Let's put some controversy and ambiguity in our new products". Hmmm clever.

Also for those dreaming that hardware modifications could still hapen, just wake up. If they can change something via firmware then why not, but everything hardware related is already etched in stone for GH3 so just get your heads out of the clouds.

@Neverprod >. . . i can tell you that i definetly prefer the GH2 picture, the GH2 give a different original picture that is so good to watch, the GH3 reminds me the picture from Sony and Co that i was not really appreciate, only nice for natural color but not good for natural quality picture . . .< I Agree!!!
- Also, I will not sell my GH2;)

@bechou

That's why I didn't sell my GH2 off. It may have a ton of flaws, but boy when this thing gets the right hack and the right glass, nine stops of DR or not it still looks damned good. And, you can see it even when it's compressed for vimeo. =3

@kholi just a bad dream, gonna rebuy my GH2 :)

@bechou

I'm not trying to be mean, but your post definitely made me laugh out loud.

Not because you're crazy, just because of the way I read it in my mind. lol

Don't be sad, bro.

@HillTop1

It's not hope to me, go say that to Panasonic, at least i was not supposed to test it, it was a friend and co-worker give me this possibility and yes when i did my test i didn't test all the function but all was available, also the co-worker confirm it was the one who enter in the production (final revision) Body Firmware 1.0.

@Neverprod I don't understand how you say they have final firmware back 2 weeks ago but could even bring one to photokina??