The Panasonic G1HD | GH-1 Video Mode : A Real Video Mode

$1770 AUD...... incredible. I'll wait and see if I can get an english menu version out of HK for that price. I have to flog my D90 first anyway
 
Anyone with an english GH1: can you post the english pdf manual online somewhere ? (rapidshare/megaupload). I guess the GH1 comes with a CD which has such manual ?
So far only the japanese one is available on panasonic website, which is not very informative for us... Thanks !
 
Even if it costs that much in AUD they might have to shrink this back town to one forum category, as they would have out priced their potential buyers. We should all wait and see what pricing will look like internationally before jumping the gun, unless you can read Japanese.
 
Wouldn't it have been sweet if continious AF tracking worked in movie mode. Damn, see the sample here in the mid page where that girl runs towards camera. It apparently doesn't work in movie mode, damn damn damn....
 
Toenis said:
Wouldn't it have been sweet if continious AF tracking worked in movie mode. Damn, see the sample here in the mid page where that girl runs towards camera. It apparently doesn't work in movie mode, damn damn damn....
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That sample looks cool and all but with the crosshair on the moving target, I keep expecting a missile to blow her to smithereens
 
Has any one tried uploading pictures or video to a computer yet?

Does the camera work with Apple? Final Cut Pro? iMovie? iPhoto?

Is there a software update needed from Apple?
 
artforme said:
We should all wait and see what pricing will look like internationally before jumping the gun, unless you can read Japanese.
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The US version will ship in June and cost less than $1,500.

Panasonic announced this at PMA.

That could mean $1,499, but I'm expecting $1300-$1400 based on the prices in Japan.
 
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Zim said:
Has any one tried uploading pictures or video to a computer yet?
Does the camera work with Apple? Final Cut Pro? iMovie? iPhoto?
Is there a software update needed from Apple?
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Yes, Barry posted a full copy of his flash card. I put that on a flash card, and was able to open and preview the footage in iMovie. I didn't bother importing it because iMovie has supported AVCHD for quite awhile.

No Final Cut Studio here, I'm waiting on the Snow Leopard version. So, I can't say anything about FCE or FCP compatibility.

But the mac has supported H.264 for many years, and AVCHD is just H.264 in an MPEG-2 transport stream. Assuming they haven't encoded the audio in an unusual way, this camera should work just like any other AVCHD camera with the Mac. (EG: Log and transfer or import to apple intermediate codec.)
 
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Sonic if you have the time to post up for the masses go ahead! I still want to wait until I've got something more than flowers and such to show. But its real soon.
 
Thanks.

LizaWitz said:
Yes, Barry posted a full copy of his flash card. I put that on a flash card, and was able to open and preview the footage in iMovie. I didn't bother importing it because iMovie has supported AVCHD for quite awhile.

No Final Cut Studio here, I'm waiting on the Snow Leopard version. So, I can't say anything about FCE or FCP compatibility.

But the mac has supported H.264 for many years, and AVCHD is just H.264 in an MPEG-2 transport stream. Assuming they haven't encoded the audio in an unusual way, this camera should work just like any other AVCHD camera with the Mac. (EG: Log and transfer or import to apple intermediate codec.)
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Thanks for sharing!
I'm interested in how the camera handles bright light, such as a sun or a practical. Any tests on the subject?

/Hannes
 
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