GH3 Panasonic GH4
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Rolf Silber
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Yes.
And drawing up the whishlist for the mighty AGAFGH4 Easter-bunny Phantom-Cam and knowing that Panasonic never ever will forget (again) to bring out a camera with focus peaking ......... just one small thingie here: Pleases, Panasonic, remember that people hop on planes and go places, from 50 Hz countries to 60 Hz ones - or vice versa. Okay? Thank you for listening.
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MurtlandPhoto
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I second that! I think they may keep the cameras regional because of some tax nonsense. An easy solution would be to make a downloadable firmware update. That way you can buy the cameras wherever and just use the firmware that has your specific NTSC/PAL needs. Gives our beloved hackers a chance to get inside that codec as well :happy:
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Thomas Smet
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Because of one camera? Blackmagic is also a different type of beast. I'm not sure if they will shake things up enough for certain specs to be considered the norm. Still plenty of professional level video cameras that are not 10bit 4:2:2. Let's not confuse wishing thinking with industry norms.
Thomas Smet
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Because honestly I would rather see 4:4:4. 4:2:2 is so 2001 and part of that old school thinking of video broadcast formats. Even though a single sensor can't really do true 4:4:4 I would still like to see it happen.
Rolf Silber
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As much as I believe our beloved EU-bureaucRATS can come up with any tax-related silliness any time .... AG-AF is 50/60 Hz switchable, a real world-cam. And even if there would be a tax on it they still should do it for a pro-model.
And if they would find a compromise between DSLR-form factor and a bonsai-Aaton "cat on shoulder"-thing, I would light a candle in their praise. Had the strange idea, they could stick the xlr-box and extra akku and whatever into a separate thing that would figure also as shoulder pad. Is such a thing doable?
walkaboutcamera
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10 or 12 bit no, I would sooner see (and I will keep harping on it) in camera from the raw before the encoding to 8 bit; shadow and highlight recovery, levels and gamma, and curves.
Mike Harvey
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Raw and 4:4:4 is not the end all be all. Panasonic has stated repeated they are targeting the "broadcast" market. That's a pretty broad term, but generally (at least to me) that tends to mean TV stations, cable networks, and local production houses producing local spots. That's what almost all the rest of their "Pro" cameras are aimed at. If the purported rumors are true (and that's a big "if"), Panasonic would be nuts to incorporate Raw or 4:4:4. Maybe out of the add on SDI box (it is rumored to include 3G-SDI), but you are never in a million years going to shoot Deadliest Catch, news promos, or local car commercials in Raw or 4:4:4. It makes absolutely no financial sense to do so... and that tends to be the video market Panasonic is catering to. 4:2:2 might be so 2001, but so what? It's still used today for a reason. It's the law of diminishing returns, and for a very wide swath of Panasonic's customer base the benefits wouldn't outweigh the infrastructure or time costs.
John Caballero
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Yesterday at the Photo Plus NY Panasonic booth I was told that if a GH4K is coming is way way down the road.