Airboxlights
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Oh and one more post: I spent some time with teh GH3 at WPPI and I was really impressed. It IS better, significantly, than my beloved gh2. #1 It can lay down timecode! Can't sync it with external audio, but timecode at all is a useful pro feature. #2 much better menu layout and logical access to important things. The frame rates and data rates are all laid out on one screen and you pick the one you want. No more of this BS like "creative movie mode". It specifies frame rates and data rates and you pick what you want to shoot. No more translating back from Mickey-mouse fisher price language to numbers that we understand. #3 it's made of metal and is sealed. #4 Optional horizon line on your viewfinder! That's just me maybe, but discovering that a frame wasn't perfectly level in the edit is a drag. #4 headphone jack. #5 They say its a better sensor and a better codec.
Those were the things that struck me. but @thomas Smet has a good point- it will almost certainly lose value quicker than one of the video cameras he mentioned. The GH2 itself is not at all old, less than 2 years I think, but already its both not expensive and increasingly hard to find since they've stopped making them in favor of the gh3.
Those were the things that struck me. but @thomas Smet has a good point- it will almost certainly lose value quicker than one of the video cameras he mentioned. The GH2 itself is not at all old, less than 2 years I think, but already its both not expensive and increasingly hard to find since they've stopped making them in favor of the gh3.
