Specifications

• 2160p30 (in NTSC), 2160p25 (in PAL), 2160p24, 100Mbit
• 1080p24/1080p60 at up to 28Mbit only (sic!)
• Focus Peaking
• P/A/S/M mode for Video Recording
• Time Lapse Shot / Stop Motion Animation
• Sensor and LSI same as in GH4
• Simpler firmware with less features
• 2.36 OLED EVF
• Tiltable LCD screen instead of AMOLED
• UHS-II SDXC Memory Card Compliance
• 3.5mm Microphone Socket (no headphone one!)
• 30min recording limit
• Weight - 410g
• Dimensions - 125 x 86 x 77 mm
• $699 body, $799 kit
• Black - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X409PQS/
• Silver - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X409O6O/

G7 kits are available in PV deals (as usual, cheaper and with free delivery to many countries)

http://www.personal-view.com/deals/cameras/panasonic#panasonic-g7

NTSC bodies are unlimited (including 4K and all).

It is both NTSC and PAL bodies, PAL do not have 30min limits in AVCHD only.

Many thanks to Gwladys and Vincent for their help !!! And to any Cosmic team for their confidence.

2 Panasonic_Lumix_GH3 / 2 Pansonic_Lumix_GH2 / 1 Tamron 150-600 f3.5 / 1 DJI OSMO / 1700 rush

Best regard, Phab

Here's a musical film JOE melodic rap, following the massacre in Paris at the "Bataclan" concert hall.

Shot with Pansaonic Lumix GH3/GH2, good visualization. Phab

Some strange thing:

• 1" 20Mp sensor, 28mm F2.8 lens
• 2GB RAM
• 4K video
• 4.7" 1080p screen

Previews:

• http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/panasonic-lumix-cm1/

I thought the videos were good in the past. However, the lack of image stabilization, accurate Continuous Auto Focus, and a good wide aperture zoom lens were always mentioned as limitations with my videos.

Finally with the GH3 I think we are over that hurdle. The video below was shot entirely hand held(No tripod or monopod at all) by 1 person in continuous Auto Focus mode with the 35-100mm F2.8 lens. I also only used one battery and still had some juice left after more than 4 hours of filming.

I would say that the focus was spot on for pretty much every clip. Even the focus pull at the beginning from the guy’s Ipad to his son climbing worked perfectly. That was a one take shot. If I didn’t get it right I couldn’t ask the guy and the climber to go back and do it again.

I simply slid my finger from the Ipad to the climber on the camera’s LCD screen. I think it gave the video a very nice effect.

I had other lenses with me like the 25mm F1.4 and the 14mm F2.5. However, I never felt like I needed them. At F2.8 I was almost never above ISO 3200 even with the darker lighting they used for this round.

I think the IS was terrific in the 35-100mm lens as well. Yes I would rather have had the OMD’s 5 axis stabilization. However, I think this is the next best thing. Try holding a camera up for 4 hours straight with a 200mm 35mm equivalent focal length and see how shaky it is without good IS. I also like to take images while I record video and instantly upload them to the web so that spectators can follow along with the action with real-time pictures. With the GH3 I put it in the real time wireless upload mode and shot at 1080p @ 60 FPS in the stills mode. That way I could take stills during video and instantly upload them.

The only issue I had with that is that every time you press the shutter button to take a still it will initiate a focus adjustment. That actually made the focus go off more times than not. After noticing this I just decided to save images directly from the videos in playback mode(Press pause during video playback and then save an image). The camera will upload those images in real time as well.

I have tested the quality of images recorded during video recording and images saved during playback and they are indistinguishable in my opinion.

I also mount my GoPro 3 Black on top of the GH3 and shoot simultaneous wide angle 720p @ 120 FPS video. However, I scrapped all of the GoPro footage because it simply was not up to the caliber of the GH3 video. It is great for super slow motion but the 120 FPS mode indoors produces so much noise that it would not mesh well with the excellent video from the GH3.

I also was impressed with how well the youtube encoding turned out. I normally post to Vimeo as well because it is better for compression. However, in this case I thought the 1080p youtube encode looked great.

I didn’t alter the video at all. I did not do any color grading or post processing on it. I shot in scenery mode with -2 Contrast, +2 sharpness, Zero Color, and -5 Noise Reduction and simply pieced the videos together with a cheap($50) program called AVS Video Editor.

It was really nice to be able to produce the video with the footage as it was shot in camera and still get what I thought was a decent result.

There were plenty of other professional film crews there with much more sophisticated equipment. The little 11 year old girl in the last clip is probably the 2nd best female climber in the country(At 12 years old) and she has a film crew that follows her around everywhere she goes. I wonder how much better their footage looks?

So what do you think? Is the GH3 finally the camera that would make you put down the traditional video camera if you shoot both stills and video?