Andrew Reid

More dumb rumours. It has nowhere near been long enough after the original FS5 to consider replacing it even by Sony standards. Pro stuff is on much longer cycles than consumer... 3 years minimum usually.

Yes it is another level entirely. So much stronger signal from the sensor, less noise pollution = better colour. They have 3D colour processing onboard as well which is usually something you only find on a high-end colourist's GPU

Well exciting though such a firmware update would be... 1. There's very little chance of it being real 2. It's still not got all the features of the GH5 or 5 axis IBIS 3. No articulated screen and no EVF 4. Worse rolling shutter. But hey. Canon badge.

It would be unprecedented for Canon to buck the video standards with 1080/75p. That part of the rumour seems made up. Could even be an attempt to make people reconsider their move to Sony or their GH5 order and wait for NAB. Unless the 75fps is part of a variable-frame-rate mode with in-camera conform to 24p then I just can't see it happening and the crop is not just a software / firmware thing - the hardware needs to be capable of that 5K readout as well.

Here is the source for the full interview with Panasonic at CES regarding restructuring. Source: AV Watch, Japan. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fav.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fdocs%2Fseries%2Fce%2F1037593.html By dismantling they mean taking the good bits (GH5) and putting them under the umbrella of the black-goods division which makes TVs, etc. I won't miss the compacts and camcorders and it was inevitable that Panasonic would scale back production of these given the current market. Micro Four Thirds lives on and continues to grow in sales.

It's not news. It might just be made up. Canon rumors guy says it's a new source. Sounds too good to be true. I hope it is though. It would solve the problem of Canon and poor DSLR video in a stroke. I wouldn't like to see the rolling shutter skew on the 5K readout, as it is already pretty extreme with just the centre crop at 4K.

How about clean 3200 and an extra stop from the speed booster = clean ISO 6400 in reality compared to a 1D X Mark II that does the same but for $4000 more. The people who complain about the GH5's footage haven't used one yet... The footage out there has been mainly poor and very compressed / 8 bit in feel The files straight off the card are not like that. They are mega chunky and astoundingly solid without a hint of compression, banding, mud or noise. I will upload some ProRes By the way you will need to transcode the files with this camera... EditReady does a superb job. Adobe did a really terrible job on the other hand. Editing native 10bit h.264 should be doable in 2017. By the way Eno thanks for posting a link on Vitaliy's forum to the Panasonic article... He is always critical of my knowledge but when I am clearly right and even backed-up by the company's official statements, he never has the balls to say so. I am still wrong. I'd hate to have him as a parent... Rather have darth vader...Maybe Putin's dad was like this?

I agree the colours are stunning. They have a really advanced 3D colour science engine in there with a huge pop. All the footage I've shot so far I've not even felt the need to grade it or tweak in post, it's just super crisp and rich. Feels chunky and deep like a full frame Nikon still. Dual Pixel AF is the only thing it lacks. This will be a camera that makes a lot of people very happy but obviously it cannot please everyone. Yes it would be nice to have reliable and fast AF for video but we've coped with manual focus for a long long time. The issue is that to do contrast detect AF you need 240fps+ refresh rate for speed and obviously 4K at 240fps is not doable yet and you can't do a separate low-res window of the sensor to perform AF while doing a 24fps full pixel readout, so it slows down compared to photos / live-view.

Here's what's really going on - http://www.eoshd.com/2017/03/panasonic-will-accelerate-lumix-project-new-structure/ It's good stuff and very positive for cameras like the GH5. The frenzy of speculation as usual comes from a lot of lazy internet journalism where sites like 43rumors look at one word in one article at Nikkei and base the headline on it, when a bit of research back just 2 months would have found the managers at Panasonic explaining in depth exactly what was planned! Ridiculous!

Reports in the media suggest Panasonic are dismantling the 'digital camera' division with some even speculating that Panasonic will pull out of the camera market like Samsung. In fact according to Yosuke Yamane of Panasonic, the company is re-doubling their focus on cameras like the GH5 and planning more releases in 2017. Read the full blog

Shot with it yesterday and it's impressive. Colour is much better, you can tell it is 4:2:2 and 10bit. You've all been looking at badly graded V-LOG on YouTube at tiny bitrates compressed to 8bit 4:2:0. The only downside of the 10bit files is they are hard to edit natively. I can see a lot of transcoding to ProRes ahead. ProRes would have been a much more suitable codec than H.264 on a camera with the GH5's performance... But the quality is there in spades. Amazing saturation and realism, super smooth feel to the files. I'm just shooting on Standard BTW.

You cannot claim a camera that shoots clean ISO 3200 at F0.7 is 'not that great in low light' F1.2 on the Speed Booster XL = F0.768 Sensor dynamic range in the RAW files is around 13 stops, so same as the 1D X Mark II full frame 20MP sensor. So not sure why you think DR is less due to the sensor size. It's only a bridge too far if it kills low light and dynamic range. It hasn't. Yes it does. 300mm F2.8 hardly a must-have lens for filmmaking. Bird watching and plane spotting maybe. The GH5 actually excels at telephoto because you can easily attain the equivalent of 800mm on full frame. 800mm! (with the relatively small Panasonic-Leica 100-400mm) I do miss the old body size and ergonomics haven't exactly progressed much but it's still a small camera and the extra features have to go somewhere. You're welcome to have your opinion but there's not much of a factual basis for it.

Yeah it's only really about 1 stop behind a full frame camera, as long as you don't fuck up exposure. Although the A7S II is a bit more, 2-3 stops. I have no problem with what the GH5 is doing at ISO 6400 with the gain from the Speed Booster XL and a fast EF lens... I call that low light performance to compete with the 1D X Mark II ISO 12,800 & F1.4... The A7R II without speed booster in full frame isn't very nice even at ISO 1600. In crop mode a different matter and acceptable at ISO 12,800.

2 years. Is your screen broken? What Panasonic should do is implement a 'light' LOG profile like Canon LOG or the Nikon Flat profile which is dead easy to grade... because V-LOG is dangerously flat like S-LOG 3 and mashes too much too close together. The 'flat' profiles are a compromise between dynamic range and nice colour, easy to grade. CineLikeD was not it on the GH4... Maybe they have improved it on the GH5? I'll give it a spin.

Not much point thinking in crop factor when you can use aspect ratio and understand immediately how that changes the picture For me a 2x crop sensor will be a 2x crop sensor And 2.35:1 is 2.35:1 not 2.5x crop, which would be confusing and pointless

Looks much nicer than the back of C5D Seb's hand!

No point rushing the footage in the first 7 hours of me owning the camera guys... c'mon.

Did your Panasonic GH5 arrive today? A complex beast isn't it! Read the full article

Did you upgrade to V-LOG yet orangenz? Panasonic only list V-LOG activation code for GH4 on their website, but I guess it's the same thing. Does it come in the post on a printed card or is it sent instantly digitally?

No lock-ups with the adapter yet but please wait and see. Very early days! The AF is good in stills mode with the adapter but nowhere near as good as with the Panasonic and Olympus lenses, which are lightning fast. The anamorphic mode on the GH5 is a resolution feast... Seriously nice. I will be putting my anamorphic lenses on it, and with a 2x lens if you kept the vertical resolution as high as it comes off the card and did the de-squeeze by stretching 2x horizontally you end up with a 10K frame

It's so bang on... Everything about it just feels 'right'

Time to spend some quality time with the Panasonic GH5. The wait is over and 3 years after the GH4 we have the highly anticipated new camera. In some ways an evolution but mostly, I'm glad to say a revolution. Read the full article

I've had this with stills as well, not just video files.

What is MPEG Streamclip doing differently to mess up colour?

I see similar issues in various players and browsers. EOSHD Pro Color compensates for it a bit but still annoying.