I love Panasonic and the innovation they have brought to the market ever since the start of their Leica partnership in the early 2000s. They are pioneers and the result is that boring Canon are on 35% share of the market Panasonic started, and Panasonic is on a pathetic 2.5%. This clearly isn’t long term viable and I am starting to wonder if Panasonic have soft quit the market.
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The S1H Mark II, and the other new S1 cameras should be here by now. Interestingly the Leica SL3 has arrived already. This is a camera that is engineered by Panasonic with Leica, and very much Panasonic in terms of electronics and firmware. The S1R Mark II has not come along with it. Instead Panasonic have given us two lower-end cameras, the S5 Mark II and S9. What could be…
Masanori Koyama joined Panasonic in 2002. After a career as a hardware engineer, Koyama san is currently in charge of product planning for LUMIX in Imaging Business Unit in Japan. He has been in charge of product planning for a wide range of Lumix cameras from compact cameras in the TZ, FX and FZ series, to the mirrorless camera line of GH series and the full-frame Panasonic S1H. I asked Koyama san 10 questions…
Comment on the forum I recently had the opportunity to ask Yosuke Yamane-san some questions about the current and future Panasonic line-up, including the upcoming GH6 and how Panasonic can continue to build on the success of the S1, S5 and S1H with new video features. Mr Yamane is Director of Panasonic’s Imaging Division.
Comment on the forum There are some things in life that are only highly rated in your head and yours alone. You stand drowning in a sea of indifference, trying to convince the resident Kanye West mouthbreather to listen Dream Theater’s first album. With cameras for example, I’ve stood in the sea of indifference myself for a long time with the waves of stupidity lapping at my feet, making my…
Comment on the forum The Panasonic GH6 is going to be the most advanced Micro Four Thirds camera ever made. The reaction has been pretty positive. But is it enough for it to be a solid update over the GH5? Does it need a big attention grabbing feature that makes it unique?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI7gNQ8Jc14 Comment on the forum The Sony A7S series has always been considered the leader in low light at very high ISOs. But at just 12 megapixels, it’s a big sacrifice in resolution to get there especially in the 8K age. The main thing that strikes me about the current 24 megapixel full frame sensors is they are CLEAN. Certainly ISO 3200 on my Panasonic S5 looks very similarly clean…
Comment on the forum Panasonic S1H owners today can start recording in high-end cinema camera standard 6K 12bit ProRes RAW via HDMI to the Atomos Ninja V. Unlike many ProRes RAW HDMI outputs this one is a full pixel readout from a native 6K sensor, with dual gain circuitry and incredible low light performance. Most cameras have to pixel bin to achieve 12 bit colour depth in their 4K RAW…