Panasonic officially announces mirrorless single-lens "GH5", the contents also greatly evolved with body size UP

Panasonic is a photokina 2016 "LUMIX GH 5(GH 5) "reference exhibited, but only revealed were slight specs such as" 18 million pixels of 6K photograph "," 8 million pixels / 60 fps continuous shot "and" 4 K / 60 p movie shooting ". However, it begins on January 5, 2017CES 2017Panasonic officially announced GH 5 before.

The Panasonic GH 5 is a big, bad mirrorless camera that's all about video - The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/4/14145730/panasonic-gh5-fz80-gx850-compact-cameras-ces-2017

Panasonic GH 5 Review: Hands-On Preview
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/panasonic-gh5/panasonic-gh5A.HTM

Movie Maven: Panasonic Lumix DC-GH5 First Impressions Review: Digital Photography Review
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/movie-maven-panasonic-lumix-dc-gh5-first-impressions-review

This is the body of GH 5. At first glance, it looks almost the same as GH4 which is the previous model, but the Verge of foreign news media says "There are many changes". GH 5 is different from GH 4 in the first place, it is 98 mm in length × 139 mm in width × 87 mm in height and 13% in size by GH 4 ratio. Incidentally, the body weight is 725 g including the battery.


Speaking of the GH series, it adopts a dust-proof and drip-proof mechanism, but GH 5 also has a new anti-freeze function. In addition, 5-axis stabilizer is built in. The number of pixels is 20.3 million pixels, the autofocus is twice faster than GH 4, and the autofocus point is changed from 49 points of GH 4 to 225 points. In addition, it is possible to shoot movies at 4 K · 60 fps, 1080 p · 180 fps, and movies at 10 bit 4: 2: 2.


back


The Bali Angle liquid crystal on the back evolved from 2.36 million pixels to 3.68 million pixels.


Dial on the top or shutter button. The button for movie shooting is moving from the back to the top.


Left side of main unit


There was only one SD card slot up to GH 4, but GH 5 has evolved into a dual SD card slot, so you can insert two cards for backing up data and save the data in a different file format.


Right side of the main unit


It has a full-size HDMI port here. The HDMI terminal of GH 4 adopted Micro HDMI.


Bottom of the main unit


Batteries are the same as GH4, that is, batteries such as GH3 and GH4 can be used directly in GH5.


It is like this when the battery grip is attached.


It is an overseas camera information siteEPHOTOzineAlsoReview articleIt has published a movie that understands what the shutter sound of GH 5 feels like.

Panasonic Lumix GH 5 Shutter Sound - YouTube


The estimated price of GH 5 is only 1999 dollars (about 230,000 yen) for the main body, and is expected to be released in the second half of 2017.