GH4 Panasonic GH5 coming in 2017

Vesku said:
GH5 has IBIS. GX8 and DVX200 has not. It cant be the same sensor.
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Agreed that we can't know yet what sensor GH5 will be using, especially given the 6K photo. However, IBIS has nothing to do with the sensor itself. They can put any sensor they want (even old ones from non-IBIS cameras) on a mechanical mount that moves around to compensate for shake. There's nothing to my knowledge about the sensor itself that enables IBIS, but it's an added mechanical feature, external and additional to the sensor.
 
There are only two MFT sensors in production and both are made by Sony. The "old" one is the 16 MPX that was inside ~ 2011-2013 Olympus and Panasonics products such as EM5 and GH3 and the current 20 MPX sensor. It's possible both Olympus and Panasonic expected something newer and better but, with the Kumamoto earthquake, Sony's struggling to fill even the existing orders.
 
filmguy123 said:
any reason to believe that the mediocre vlog curve released for GH4 will be improved much in the GH5?
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I highly doubt it. First off, Panasonic V-log is a subset of their Varicam-log profile, which is very close to the ARRI log profile and was designed to support up to 16 F-stops of dynamic range. ( V-log was designed to support the first 12 F-stops of the Varicam-log gamma curve ) With V-log Panasonic choose compatibility with Varicam-log over creating a log profile that was optimized for 8-bit recording.

I would expect much better V-log performance with the new GH5 because of it's 10-bit 4:2:2 internal recording format, which should be as good or better than the GH4 with a 10-bit external recorder.
 
filmguy123 said:
any reason to believe that the mediocre vlog curve released for GH4 will be improved much in the GH5?
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V-log is not mediocre and to say it is shows a complete lack of understand of what log is. Sure it isn't the best with internal recording but not many log formats are great when shooting internal unless they are purposely dumbed down to take advantage of the internal recording format. I for one am really glad Panasonic didn't dumb it down and gave us the largest possible range when recording externally so to me V-log is exactly how it should be.

External recording with v-log is phenomenal. What plagued the internal recording with v-log has nothing to do with v-log itself but how the internal encoder was optimized. It has way too much color macro blocking to be used with v-log since any macro blocks will be greatly stretched in post and show up much more than they would in normal profile material. Blame the encoder, not V-log.
 
I hope the hotshoe XLR adapter has an extension cable, so you can use it with a cage and mount it elsewhere.
 
Not sure how I feel about removing the flash. I can probably count on one hand the amount of times I've actually used it with my GH4, but on the other hand it's nice to have it if you need it.
 
I use my GH4 as a travel camera. I find the flash is handy for fill in shots. I plan on getting the GH5, but I regret having to lug around another piece of equipment for flash.
 
Tomorrow is the premier of GH5. The camera will be in stores later in spring. They are making final adjustments for FW. I hope the GH5 will have:

-auto iso in M with EC for photos and video

-auto iso and shutter speed limit for photos and video

-showing exposure values in all video modes

-semi-auto exposure mode for video. Exposure, focus and AWB sets when starting the video and then stays unchanged. Canceled by pressing AE-lock.

-separate AE-lock, AF-lock and WB-lock (FN-buttons)

-all menu items for FN-buttons

-during dialing iso should not block seeing other values

-AF+MF should work all the time when ON. (not only with half press)

-manual focus shift (focus pull) via FN-buttons with adjustable speed

-EV comp and video buttons programmable for FN use.

-adjustable EVF sharpness

-EVF protecting cover

-sensor zooming or different crops for 4k video

-more accurate and wider histogram with better warnings (like in Olympus)

-My menu for favorite menu items

-symbol for idynamic and wind filter in displays

-ability to save the whole camera setup with names like indoors, outdoors, etc

-more range for bracketing (-2,0,+2)

-play button to right side via FN-button

-iso100 for video

-no need for using everything in manual if using very slow shutter for video (less than 1/25s)

These are little things and mostly doable with FW programming.
 
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