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Panasonic G7 Does anyone use the 4k prefocus feature

Started Dec 27, 2019 | Discussions thread
Trevor Carpenter
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Re: Panasonic G7 Does anyone use the 4k prefocus feature

G7 4K was fine at the time when it was launched. I used it mainly as a bit of fun and it gave me some decent results. Next generation on the G80 was identical and gave me shots like this.

Negatives were that you could get some nasty rolling shutter effect, extracting the stills could be a faff, 8Mp means quality is not as good as stills.

A big step forward on the G9 which does it in 6K and more importantly has a new function using a different technology to produces 20Mp RAW stills up to 60fps, great quality and no extraction needed, the camera produces each frame as a still. I still get some rolling shutter effect on some shots..

I don't have proof but from reading these forums oly procapture may have less issue with rolling shutter.

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