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Yeah, GH7 has a new sensor.

Looks like rumours was correct. GH6 style body, still only one CF Express card slot. 1 CF Express card, 5728x3024 Apple ProRes RAW HQ up to 30fps, data rate at 3.3Gbps or non-HQ at 2.2Gbps at 24fps

LOL. How many months to merge the GH6 body with G9M2 internals? The GH7 was probably held back until the GH6 inventory was low enough.

I think many had preferred the more slimmer fan solution from the S5M2-series. Also, by re-using the GH6 body style it might have dual card slots of different types. All in all I think we can acknowledge that the GH7 will not be a ground breaking design, compared to what has been issued before.

Yes and no. Panasonics market share are miniscule, they have to operate at a slim budget. Thus the GH7 is lots of used parts and bits, with some extras added in. We should probably be glad the finally made a GH-PDAF instead of abandoning the mount altogether. That said, we could perhaps wanted something more in the flagship camera. Improved sensor with faster read out. There is also the dream of the internal ND filter, which now looks more likely to be implemented in the S1 mk II series in the late fall.

The Nauticam housing prices have skyrocketed in the last years. I have the Nauticam housing for the GH3 and GH4.

I think its pretty certain that both the S9 and the GH7 was shown and handed out at the Lumix press junket in Osaka.

Apparently ProRes RAW. Which Black Magic refuses to support in Davinci Resolve due to the Atomos factor.

Come on. The GH7 is basically the G9M2 internals in a GH6 body positive form factor. Then add a few new bits of hardware and firmware. It's seems like the cheapest way they could possibly engineer the GH7. No new sensor, no new body design. As for any S1 mk II it's unlikely until Q4, 2024.

It's perfectly unclear here what kind of Sony sensors Nikon use or to what extent any modifications are made by Sony sensor engineers or team Nikon themselves. And neither will tell you the truth.

The new patent is only for the specific tweak, not the old stuff. Like I said, evolving CD into Blu-Ray doesn't prolong the patent for CD.

You can not "extend" a patent. Unless you build something new. Still, the old stuff are in public domain after 20 years. When the Sony/Philips patents for CD was dead, evolving it into a DVD or Blue Ray by them or others did not bring back the old patents for CD per see. (There was other patents here, like the generic patents for optical disc, later acquired by Pioneer Corp in Japan, which for some reason had a extended filling time - (application was lost at the patent office) but for the sake of this discussion I try to keep it simple.) The latest RED.com RAW patent can be read here, but heck there is just claims of the old stuff really, with the added methods of pre-/de-emphasis of the compressed data which to my understanding was not in the original "internally compressed RAW patent". There seems to be just about a new form of "15-bit to 12-bit pre-emphasis function" now added to the redcode processing after RED switched from wavelet to DCI based compression. FIG 5 in the patent is all that is new. https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/11503294 As far as I know there are other patents for the pre-/deemphasis of the wavelet based redcode which have now been abandoned for the later DCI compression. The internally compresed RAW patent is not about the compression, just the idea of 24+ FPS and >2K res RAW frames... Quite stupid. And neither the wavelet based (JPEG2000) or the DCI based compression is a invention by RED, it's just licensed for use in the redcode.

Countdown has been running since November 2019.

The only thing which have kept the church of RED alive is the patent. And the insane mark up on cards, viewfinders, etc. Patent is dead in four years regardless. Also, RED is run like a surf shop which now meets japanese corporate culture. What could go wrong.

What did Nikon pay? How can Nikon make this back in the next 3-4 years before the patent expires?