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Exciting Pana announcements, especially for video people.

Started Jan 4, 2017 | Discussions thread
Jorginho Forum Pro • Posts: 15,370
Re: Exciting Pana announcements, especially for video people.

Kisaha wrote:

Another interesting fact is the size/weight of the new GH5.

GH5 138.5 x 98.1 x 87.4 mm and 725gr.

NX1 is 138.5x102.3x65.8 mm (or 14.0 x 10.2 x 6.6 cm in other measurements) and 550grs.

And for comparison, Nikon D750 140.5x113x78 mm, 840grams.

I understand that it is a semi pro (or pro) video orientated camera, but the increase in size and weight is substantial; main reason should be IBIS and special cooling system for the in-camera processing and recording, still, m4/3 is reaching dSLR territory.

No it is not. It does not let quality suffer under size like Sony seems to do. There was a clear wish among videographers to have a cam like the GH5. Fine. You want a cam that warms your hands in winter and cook eggs in summer? Make it in a small package. But Panasonic is about quality and durability. Try to find one GH4 on the mFT that broke down. It might be there, I do not read all threads but these are very few and far between. Overheating has never been recorded (in 4K hehe).

If you want a similar setup with an APS-c sensor let alone FF...we all know what would happen. I would be enormous. IBIS heats things up and 400 Mbps in 4K...well...

We can see m43s is not approaching some certain size by simply looking at GX80, GF9, EPL8 and especially GM5 (where is GM6 though). Especially  the latter of course is of a size no DSLR APS-c can even come remotely close to.

But this is your typical cherrypicking: we pick one model., we mention size and weight and...done. Too funny.

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