Panasonic G80 / G85 / G8 4K 5-axis stab magnesium monster

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Specifications

16mp m43 CMOS sensor without low pass filter
Sensor based 5-axis stabilization, around 5 stops
Improved 2.36Mpix OLED EVF
3" 1Mdot LCD
Dual IS to work with lens IS improved to V2
4kp30, p24, 1080p60,p50 recording in MP4 up to 100Mbit, recording with 422 color encoding
422 recording, but not 10 bit as GH5, only 8bit
9fps shooting
SD card slot with latest UHS support
Usual Panasonic DFD tech
Microphone socket, headphone socket
Dust and water proof, magnesium body

PV Deals

Body (black PAL, non EU, no limit) - ~~$880~~ $799
14-140mm Kit (black PAL, non EU, no limit) - ~~$1180~~ $1099

Both at http://www.personal-view.com/deals/cameras/panasonic#panasonic-g80-g85-g8

US Amazon

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Panasonic Lumix G85 12-60mm for $499

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/panasonic-lumix-g85-mirrorless-4k-photo-digital-camera-body-with-12-60mm-lens-black/5632300.p

Grimor

Back in the days I used one of this just fine with G80

zcream

@arvidtp I thought that was optional. Guess not. Thx for the link

arvidtp

Probably it is using HDMI Cable power: https://www.hdmi.org/spec21sub/cablepower

theusualeditor

@zcream Good question. I don't know. I am an end user and all I know is that it worked back then.

After a bit of searching I actually found my adapter (it is passive), hooked it up to an A7III micro-to-female HDMI, and the audio came through out of the 1/8 port of the adapter without issues. So it still works today.

zcream

Hdmi is digital. How do they convert it to analogue audio and video without power?

theusualeditor

No battery is needed. There isn't even a place for one. It's a passive A/V splitter

zcream

@theusualeditor does this need a battery?

theusualeditor

@LongJohnSilver some years ago I had the G85, and what I did was to purchase a cheap HDMI to VGA adapter that had a headphone jack. So I would connect an angled micro HDMI to full-size female HDMI where I would plug the adapter. The angled micro HDMI took the strain off the port.. just have to get the correct angle.

LongJohnSilver

Hi all,

Cureently what's the best option for monitoring audio?

Thank you in advance

zcream

Hopefully it will be 500 bucks without the non lens items soon. Just camera with 2 lenses

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G85 Mirrorless with 12-60mm OIS & 45-150mm Lenses W/Free Kit, $697

https://www.adorama.com/ipcdmcg85kl3.html?sdtid=14028710

MikeLinn

DrDave

It's a joke.

Orkan

@DrDave what do you mean?

DrDave

My G85 has a headphone jack through the USB port.

Firworks

It is a joke. They made a mistake on the release notes. Interestingly the G95 release notes don't mention the headphones. Maybe they mistakenly swapped the G95 and G85 release notes.

zhovner

Panasonic finally listened to us and added a headphone jack to the G85

It's a joke? I don't get. Maybe this comment is about G90 which is G85 with headphone jack.

Firworks

Hey, Panasonic finally listened to us and added a headphone jack to the G85! It only took 3 years! New firmware available here: https://av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/support/global/cs/dsc/download/index.html

gameb

Anybody tried out this camera with the m42 to mft speedbooster?

cas1

Auto ISO in manual mode!

Hi people, I discovered something new to me, which I've not seen on the internet yet. I want to record UHD movies, but with control over aperture and shutter speed and in auto ISO, while monitoring what's going on while recording. Normal manual videomode does NOT allow this. It only allows manual ISO if you want to retain control over both aperture and shutter speed.

However I'm thrilled to discover that in 4kphoto mode I can have full manual control AND AUTO ISO, and all these numbers actually show up on screen, and stay on screen change WHILE recording. sadly the exposure compensation does not work in combination.

Are you guys aware of this?

BTW I'm looking for an affordable underwater housing and dome port, but there is only an Ikelight housing costing me over €2000,-. Do you know of something cheaper, otherwise I'm motivated to save up for a 2nd hand GH5 and buy the much more affordable seafrogs /meikon housing for it. - Still a heavy investment.

Knotbar

I'm posting here on the hope this will be useful to someone that, like me in the past few days, is looking for information about pairing a G80/G85 and this Kipon adapter.

I've been using the Kipon EF-MFT adapter (version 1) with various GH2 bodies without mayor problems. This week I bought an used G80 and I could verify that the adapter hits the camera's body. Personally I think is easily fixable, doing a slightly sanding of the protuding element of the adapter which purpose, I supose, is only for housing the screws. The other place where I found information about this issue was here https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1475988

I returned the camera because it was faulty (a dirt speck or such in the inner layers of the sensor) so for the moment I won't rectifiying the Kipon until I get another body.

DrDave

@Ironfilm The person in the video did the whole thing from top to bottom, including all the editing. I think she did a great job. I did move the mics near the G85 just to check the noise.

Hydro

IT's terrible, on this video, the first firmware 1.1 doesn't change the problem. And when i see the border of the road on the video, the image is so strong, seems to ba an artificial picture...

arvidtp

I can't say for the 14-140mm specifically, but yes, I do believe this was fixed in a firmware update. My G85/G80 does not have this problem.

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