What colors are available?

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eleison

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Hi all,

Does anyone know what colors are going to be available in the United States? I'm looking at either the red or the blue. The black is to "business looking" for me. Not only do I like the red or the blue one better, but I think when shooting, my friends and relatives would be much more comfortable.. Its not like some professional, slick looking photo equipment stuck up on their face.. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG) (but little do they know, the quality is still good)
 
Initially in the U.S. only the black model will be available. World wide there are two other colors: red and gold. There is no word the blue color found on the G1 will ever be offered, or when anything but black will be offered in the states.
 
So basically, if I want to get a colored camera I need to buy it online from a European country.. oh, well, I guess I'll do that..
 
Are you sure you want PAL instead of NTSC? I'm pretty sure that the UK uses the PAL encoding, not the NTSC encoding we use here in the U.S. Also, the cameras sold in the EU have a 30 minute limit on the length of a video recording.

As Henry Ford said, "You can get it in any color you want as long as it's black". I'd either get black or wait for Panasonic to offer one of the other colors here.
 
it's annoying - but think, how often (yawning) a clip is longer than 30 minutes!

Terminator4 - as three 30-minutes-clips ... :-)
 
paulgandersman said:
if you buy a european camera, you'll be stuck with a 30 minute record MAX because of their stupid tax laws.
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Boy, that sucks.. not to mention the PAL thing... it'll probably be at least a year before any of the colored cameras come to the states.. Boo booo.. Maybe canada has colored ones?
 
I think he's British or at least got his advanced release from Panasonic UK.
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LOL. He is not british nor was his camera. Was Japanese and black color. Philip Bloom IS british and was using a PAL red colored camera that was provided by Panasonic in England.

I'm pretty sure that the UK uses the PAL encoding, not the NTSC encoding we use here in the U.S.
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The new members should read this forum a little more thoroughly.

not to mention the PAL thing
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Color NTSC GH1's can be, for now, only bought in Japan (that I know). The menus will be in Japanese, but they say they are easy to understand, mostly graphic, some words in english, some in japanese.

Color PAL GH1's can be bought in Europe, UK if you want english menus (not sure about other European GH1's but I guess they will have different languages in their menus), they will have the 30 minute clip limit. It's been said that PAL models with no time limit can be bought in Asia, China I think.
 
Paris Hilton won't leave home without it, this it the cam of choice for shooting in dark hotel rooms - I'm looking forward to the next 'leaked' video.
 
I have the other problem. I want black, but all the blacks are sold out here in Osaka. There are LOTS of red ones and some gold available..
 
I actually wanted the red model so I could go "Hey Jimbo, I got a scarlet camera!" but the first one that showed up here was black and I was too eager to play so I grabbed it.
 
I'm actually hoping for the black version. I think it'll look too "fisher price" if it's red.

I'm already rolling up to a shoot with an itsy bitsy camera, no sense in dashing the little confidence people will have in it on the sharp pointy rocks at the bottom of the cliff.
 
I got my GH1 today - the red one. I wanted black initially, but they are only red and gold
now here in Czech Republic - in Europe. It´s PAL version with menus in English, Japanese and 13 European languages.
BTW ... the red one isn´t bad at all
 
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