Without having held and shot with the GH1 myself it’s hard to say if Panasonic’s latest Micro Four Thirds Lumix is worth a hoot. Sure, it shoots HD video, which is fine and dandy, but these are cameras and not camcorders. If you fail to produce high quality still images then who gives a damn if it shoots HD video or bakes you a cake. Anyway, Eric over at PB got a little face time with a pre-production model and posted a clip of the encoded AVCHD video to MPEG-4. It’s not terribly exciting, but some of you have probably been wondering about it.
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How much will the GH1 cost?
How much is the other lens?
When is the release date?
Panasonic has not released pricing or launch dates for anything.
Focus is overrated!
Hmm, so it’s possible to shoot wobbly, out-of-focus video with it. Interesting. I may have to bookmark this for later.
Nothing worse than retards leaving comments. D’ya know what I mean?
It is great to have an SLR + COMPACT + CAMCORDER all in one Hybrid. I think the days of mechanical prism and mirror technology is far retirement overdue.
So looking very much into buying this camera, when it get down to under $500 that is. I agree that it definitely not worth the $1000+ that they most likely will be asking for it.
Does it not have Auto focus for video? I bet it does, it is a pre-production cam he is testing there.
Panasonic please price the GH1 very close to the G1.
Based on the video, I assume it was shot with a zoom lens with a pretty good range. Chances are these aren’t the best in low light conditions or whoever shot the video probably didn’t change the aperture to the widest setting (likely the 14-140mm f/4). I am still weary about the 4/3 format. No mirror = no SLR. But I hear some good things about it. Panasonic has a GH1 page and there is a video sample there which looks much better.
Yes, the video does look dreadful, BUT the conclusion drawn from this post is completely irrelevant. You cannot judge software (any software) from how it looks in its very early beta stage.
Some folks at dpreview.com had a look at the metadata, it shows “Camera Mode: DMC-GH1 Creation Software: Ver.0.1″.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1033&message=31222757&changemode=1
This is version 0.1, people! There is still a long way until version 1.0, which will be when the camera will actually ship. I fully agree with the hypothesis that this video was shot in a moment when nobody from Panasonic was looking.