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It's raw. So of course you can't be using the full sensor with a scale down applied. Nah, raw means a crop of the sensor if you're not recording the full resolution. There is a big difference between "easy" vs a seamless integration into workflow (as professionals would demand).

ugh! Maybe that was why ARRI was willing to give it away... Only people using older (non ARRI 35) cameras would be wanting it???

The Olympus 7-14mm f/2.8 or Panasonic 8-18mm f/2.8-4 lenses are not to your tastes??

Ahhh... that makes kinda sense, maybe their supply of them was very limited. So they had ones there to share, but not enough to hand out to everyone. So some people (such as Gerald....) only got their copies to play with a couple of weeks later (or an even longer wait).

Not a big deal, as I bet a tonne of ARRI shooters who are using the GH7 with LogC3 as a supplementary camera would only want it to be in ProResHQ and not anything else anyway. dreaming big! dreams are free Not 100% if it is 4K at S16??? Would have to double check that, I just remember noticing it had a S16 mode for the C400

I bet the "S2H" will be "ARRI Certified" (and maaybe they'll bring it to the S5IIX as well) For sure! But for people who are already owners of a GH6 (and sometimes shoot with ARRI), then this is an awesome upgrade without needing to buy an entirely new camera. The S2H will fairly likely cost roughly double what the GH7 costs. (especially if the GH7 is starting to see a few discounts by the time the S2H finally arrives, say if it might even just dip under $2K: $1,999) I very very very highly doubt they'll buy ARRI (but hey, the RED purchase was a shock too!) Add now the Canon C400 to that list!!

The GH8 could keep everything exactly the same about the GH7 (not even adding 8K), but gives us four stage internal NDs (or perhaps eND) and a SDI BNC (or mini-SDI??) output with zero delay (and an independent full size HDMI output) and it would sell like hotcakes. Or maybe this could be called a "Panasonic GH7S"??? (a MFT camera inside a beefy "S2H body"???)

I think you need to initially ignore lenses when looking at costs, as it isn't right to compare camera body + lenses with just a camera body from the competition (such as a Z8) The next step afterwards, is you then compare camera body plus lenses VS camera body plus lenses of the competition. MFT tends to win here, with cheaper lenses. And if looking at camera systems, then even with the paid upgrades you're looking at: R5C = $3.6K FX3 = $3.7K FX30 = $1.6K XH2S = $2.5K From this perspective, the GH7 and $2.2K (or $2.4K) looks very good. Heaps cheaper than the FF competition, and very comparable to the APS-C / S35 competition. You add on the audio adapter accessory for any of these and it is another $400+, very comparable indeed to the $499 for the Panasonic DMW-XLR2 So all in all, I think the Panasonic GH7 is priced very comparable or even sharper than the competition is. If you're at this budget bracket. (unfortunately I'm at the GH4/G85 price point, and I already have one!)

From the people I follow, I feel certain about this. But I suspect the GH7 was perhaps not quite ready back then. So they couldn't talk about it during / immediately after the trip.

Makes it very easy to fit in with established workflows using ARRI cameras. (if that's not your world, then it's much less of a big deal this particular announcement)

Ohhhhh.... it will be available for the GH6 too!!! In addition, ARRI LogC3 recording can also be used on the LUMIX GH6 in the same way as the LUMIX GH7 by using the Software Upgrade Key DMW-SFU3A, with the exemption of the REAL TIME LUT function which is not available on this model. https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/06/05/panasonic-lumix-gh7-internal-prores-raw-recording-32-bit-float-audio-recording-arri-logc3/

Official certification by ARRI is surprising indeed! If anything can cause an explosion in seeing Panasonic mirrorless on film sets I work on, it would be THIS! Would instantly make the GH7 the #1 choice for crash cam / B Cam / etc, anything that needs very awkward mounting, such as mounting a camera for a shower scene or riding a motorbike or a snorricam.

100%! Maybe, maybe not. The C400 might have the same problem the C300mk2 too had, it came out too late in the upgrade life cycle , and it lost out to the earlier released Sony FS7 And a lot of Canon fanboys might have already got a C70 (or C300mk3). Definitely! A full priced C70 is tough to justify if you can afford a little bit more for a C400 (and don't mind the little extra size), so it made sense to make the price gap between the C70 and C400 a little big. That's my feeling too, when I think about the past shoots I've worked on over the last couple of years, even if you combine all of the C70 + C300mk2 + C500mk2 into one category, it still wouldn't out number the number of FX6 shoots I've been on. For sure there are, but compared to the hordes of people using FX6 & FS7?? Much less.

Does it justify a $2K higher price than their main competition? But hmmm... this is very cool: "Full Frame, Super35 & Super16 Modes" Biggest feature missing from the FX6 that I wish it had!

It's damn hard to black out a house, yet often still an easier path than forcing people through a series of night shoots!

whoops! Shows how long it has been since I've turned mine on... I guess it's time to sell it

Rumors now say the GH7 pricing is $2200 That's good news (was worried it might have been on the higher side of the two thousands, not low two thousands), and with how high inflation has been lately, I don't think we could have realistically have hoped for much better. ohhhh... that's an ingenious loophole! Kill two birds with one stone. The YAGH was innovative for its time, nobody else had tried this, but I can't see them ever repeating in 2024 the now obvious mistakes of it: 1) it needed external power 2) was too big (having four SDI outputs for instance is great, but a bit overkill? 1x full size HDMI + 2x SDI independent outputs is enough for 97%+ of people)

Gee, didn't realize the existing options for Panasonic was so bad: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Mirrorless-Camera-Lenses/ci/17912/N/4196380428?sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH&filters=fct_brand_name%3Apanasonic%2Cfct_lens-mount_3442%3Aleica-l-mount%2Cfct_lenses-kits_7315%3Alenses-only%2Cfct_zooms-primes_5903%3Aprime-lenses $600 for a 35mm f1.8 or $800 for a 24mm f1.8 or $900 for an 18mm f1.8! They really needed to develop a cheaper lens, even if means a compromise on image quality, even if it means it is slower (but not slower than f4) to cater to the wide angle needs of S9 users. 20mm f4 would have been a fantastic lens for the selfie shooter. Throw in a mid-wide like a 35mm f2.8 at a very cheap price, and you'd have lots of happy S9 users.

From memory.... yes? (in the case specifically of the Sonys) As they use their proprietary smart shoe connection, which connects to the base of the handle. But then at the top of the handle there is another proprietary smart shoe connection which is where the audio module is attached to it.

If you want a cinema camera that behaves close-ish to how a modern mirrorless camera is, then it sounds like you want a Sony FX30. They're on sale now: US$1,599 (waiting for them become sub $1K on eBay!)

This here is both a top handle and an audio accessory. If you want to mount a mini short gun such as the Deity SMic3S or a Sanken CS1e then this is the logical way to do it, be using a top handle too. So let's ignore the top handle for a moment, as that size doesn't matter. Can the audio accessory actually be made any smaller? It really can't be, not significantly so. Not if you wish to keep full size XLR inputs plus the knobs/switches for direct control over it (vs doing menu deep diving). Which is the entire point of it!!

Honestly I think sticking with the Panasonic Lumix S 50mm f/1.8 Lens as the "freebie / promotional lens" would have done far less harm to the S9 launch, than that f8 manual focus lens! Even though the 50mm is quite big, at least it wouldn't have generated so much negativity being bundled with the S9. (although yeah, I think ideally Panasonic should develop a 45mm f2/8 lens that's very compact, or something like that) What was wrong with the GH4?? It was revolutionary for its time!

well the BMPCC for its niche as a very low budget "cinema camera" I think can kinda hold up and live without IBIS, HFR (still has 60fps, enough for most purposes), great audio, or great AF. Because that's the type of camera it is (of course, it was aimed at bird photographers, then yeah, you need a totally different feature set!) It's only in the last couple of years or so do I think the lack of 4K is becoming more of an issue as it ages. But yes, sadly the battery situation of the BMPCC has always been its biggest weakness, they should have just used a slightly bigger grip and gone with perhaps a NP-F550 or similar battery.

I half suspect that he doesn't have a pre-release GH7 loaner. The issue is if Gerald has done not just "a negative review" but does what others have even called "the MOST negative Day 1 review" for the previous GH6, and then you stack on top of that all his negativity towards other Panasonic cameras... why would Panasonic ever trust him to give them a fair go review for the GH7? Time flies when you get older, plus I think covid distorted all of our senses of time That kinda makes sense, but also doesn't. As the timing is too tight. Why not just show the demo GH7 to them and have loaners sent out? The change up makes sense if perhaps the GH7 was pushed back by a couple of months or more. But this is really only a small handful of weeks later since the Japan trip. Surely this trip could still have been used for a GH7 launch?? Rather than making a mess of the S9 launch!! I'm surprised the GH6 is being discontinued so fast. Usually the pricing of the new model is high enough, especially compared to the price of the old model on sale, that there is enough of a pricing gap that the new and old model can sell alongside enough and be targeting quite different market niches. At least for a few months or perhaps a year plus, until the new model sees its first discounts. In extreme cases, you see the likes of Sony keeping their older models around for ages and ages, so they can keep on targeting lower and lower price points (as they get discounted) without having to target increasingly cheaper price points. Maybe we'll see soon see "a GH6mk2" , like the GH5mk2. It will have very small changes, enough to call it "mk2", but not so many changes that it costs much R&D at all for Panasonic. That then gets launched at an aggressive price point, so as to cater to everyone who wants "a cheaper GH7".

Would be wild if Panasonic delivers raw in the GH7 via "an external unit" But the external unit is merely a battery grip with an extra card slot.