GH3 No switching between 60 fps and 50 fps , for the PAL-countries only 50 fps

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bvidec

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A Panasonic representative at Photokina assured me that the GH3 would be produced in a PAL-version with 50, 25, 24 fps and a NTSC-version with 60, 30 and 24 fps.

For me, living in a PAL-country, that is a major disappointment.

I am interested in slow motion and 50 fps means a 20% reduction in slow motion capabilities.
 
i've been living with gh2 720 50p and it hasn't bothered me all that much. not having 720 120fps is more of a dissapointment for me
 
bvidec said:
A Panasonic representative at Photokina assured me that the GH3 would be produced in a PAL-version with 50, 25, 24 fps and a NTSC-version with 60, 30 and 24 fps.

For me, living in a PAL-country, that is a major disappointment.

I am interested in slow motion and 50 fps means a 20% reduction in slow motion capabilities.
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In this list Barry posted it says both Pal/NTSC. line 13. I also saw a similar spec list at B&H.



1. Sharpness, contrast, and color are now adjustable in 11 steps, instead of -2 to +2.
2. Slow-mo at 60p, and also at 50p, as well as 30p.
3. An OLED screen on the back instead of LCD. One that you can actually see even in broad daylight.
4. The viewfinder is almost native 1080p!
5. You can rack focus with an automatic lens now, by using touch autofocus on the display. Just point at where you want it focused, and the lens will automatically focus to that area of the screen. Could be very handy when dealing with long lenses where DOF is extremely shallow and touching the camera causes jiggles and bouncing in the image.
6. "Lightning" autofocus performance
7. A headphone jack(!)
8. Stills recorded even while shooting video.
9. Overrideable controls when in iA mode -- you can tell it to bias the white balance, the brightness, or the focus sharpness one way or the other even when in full-auto mode.
10. Almost looks like it has Scene Files... not sure what the "Scene Guide" is, but with the more extended controls, we'll probably have people making custom scene files for the GH3.
11. .MOV recording for easy editing, no more need for AVCHD file folder structures.
12. 1080/60p live recording
13. NTSC/PAL switchable
14. Custom-settable guidelines and moveable histogram
15. Vignetting shading compensation. How cool is this? If you have a c-mount lens or something that vignettes, the camera can automatically compensate that out so you get an even field of illumination...
16. SMPTE timecode
17. A 3.5" mic jack instead of the silly 2.5mm.
18. In-camera HDR, although I'm not sure if this works only in stills or in video too.
19. High-bitrate 50mbps codec already -- factory guaranteed, no need to hack
20. Alternative high-bitrate 72mbps all-intra codec built-in, factory guaranteed, again no need to hack
21. Weather-sealed to some degree
22. Intelligent noise reduction that vacuums up noise in the darks -- which will lead to better compression even at the same bitrate
23. Intelligent noise reduction that knows the difference between an edge and noise, so it will hopefully preserve edges better and result in overall sharper-looking, cleaner-looking footage
24. Lower ISO of 125 is possible, which may help with broad daylight exposures
25. WiFi for iPad/iPhone/Andriod apps, who even knows what potential this brings...
26. A battery grip for long-duration battery life
27. 7 customizable function buttons
28. Potentially better HDMI monitoring -- found one quote where they said it was suitable for professional use or something like that, but can't find that now.
29. You can trim and split clips right in-camera, so you can extract the "good stuff" and delete the wasted parts
30. Viewfinder/display lag is greatly reduced vs. the GH2
31. You can use the viewfinder and OLED flip-out screen simultaneously
32. A built-in level gauge (that was the one thing I missed from my old 7D, and now it looks like the GH3 has it)
33. Apparently you can execute a power-zoom from the LCD, dragging on the LCD to have the lens zoom. You can assign a zoom speed to a function button. Perhaps you could even control zoom through a wireless app.

And that's just from digging through the Panasonic site for five minutes. I'm sure there's lots and lots of things that I missed.

This looks like a HUGE upgrade from the GH2, in my opinion. Will the imaging hold up? Will it have more DR? Those are questions I don't know the answer to yet, but just based on how much effort they put into the rest of the camera, I sincerely doubt that they "forgot" to make the images look better.
 
As far as I've gathered from Panasonic's spec page, when in 24 fps mode one can opt for a 40 or 80% slow-mo mode of which 40% will yield 60 fps. But I might have misunderstood.


CREATIVE VIDEO MODE
Slow and fast motion

40% / 48% / 80% (Records 0.4 times, 0.48 times, 0.8 times slower) / 160% / 200% / 300% (Records 1.6 times, 2.0 times, 3.0 times faster) / (1920x1080, 24p, 24Mbps in .MOV, .MP4, AVCHD)
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Linky:
http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/DMC-GH3KBODY?t=specs
 
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