Issue with this rumors is that it is too specific and too early.
Usually it is very small amount of people who know stuff and even most of them have no idea about sensor used.

If we assume that old sensor will be used it means 4K at 30fps max, and whole camera, may be outside of compression options, will be copy of GH4.

Due to specific structure and fact that almost all manufacturers are Japanese and members of very large diversified groups we can see very harsh outcomes.

I expect that one year from now no one will be questioning Samsung exit, and instead will be blaming Japanese companies who will be bleeding and cutting.

If you want a decent CINEMA camera, go buy one. Everything else is going to be a compromise. If the compromise does not suit your needs.... DO NOT BUY IT. If you DO buy it, don't bore everyone on forums with your complaints.

It is speculation topic.

No one here is talking while waiting cinema camera he needs badly for next day project.

I agree, at the moment there isn't really any quantum leap in quality or features from the GH4 to make me want to switch. Yes the A7Sii is much better in low light, but then its limited to 8bit out the HDMI and the rolling shutter (which is odd considering its a 'low' MP sensor). The colours of the canons is better, but then the cameras are much bigger (and the cost...)

The FS5 apart from the NDs and Audio features doesn't provide anything substantially better. I'm sitting it out for whats in store with the GH5.

@Tron

I am glad that my words trigered the creative impulse in you, rocking up your imagination that you can be comedy writer;) Alas, I am sad to announce that I can not laugh at these jokes of yours :( I simply don't have enough capacity to be thrilled like some of you, for the fact that in 2017 flagship camera of major manufacturer I will have to use crippled state of the shck/art technology from 2014, along with specs that will be a combo of 3:1:1,5 color space with 6,83 bit codecs and sensor that will give us who knows what kind of somnabulic combinations of 2.45 crop factor if we shoot 3455x2123 frame size etc etc etc...

Not even Panasonic's generosity to give us 103fps slo-mo but only with 2123x1346 frame size and 3,367 crop factor while we can use only and exclusively iso range 25-630 ASA can't get me warmed up and excited to buy Gee Eidge five (even when it rhimes)!

What you see as my rant, I see as a common sense.

I do not ask GH5 to have for anything more that ALREADY doesn't EXIST on the market !!!

You see, I acctualy moved from canon to panasonic couple of years ago for two reasons: -I liked the potential prospectives of small factor system (my body was asking me for smaller and lighter equipment) -I loved what the indie crowd of ingenious mavericks did with gh1/2 hacks and I wanted to support that way of thinking/working.

I wantet to make a PROGRESS!!! Similar or better results with less suffering... (5lbs camera kit instead of 10lbs).

And I wanted to escape world of companies like Canon, who abuse their workers and blackmail their users (funny how easily people forget that initialy 5D only offered 30fps and NO manual control over f-stop and shutter; Canon put that in function only after a big pressure from users and public! Not to mention that all the qualities that Canon is praised for acctualy come to us thanks to the works and efforts of Magic Lantern people - NOT Canon!!!!)

I thought m43 would change that. Boy I was wrong!

When they offered us their equivalent of normal lens (lumix 25mm) for tripple the price of Canon's 50mm, I thought it was a temporary bug. Then GH3 model came out that changed nothing, so I started scratching my head. Finaly with V-log crap and panasonic's latest and the HIGHEST end broadcast camera they have, issued with native EF-mount it (?!?!?!?!) was clear to me who's getting screwed! And I am not the only one. Like it or not, we are in it all together my friends...

And the only way to protect ourselves from getting screwed again is to raise our standards, expectations and demands (to save our asses litterarly and figuratively:). GH5 is acctualy a situation where users can regain they powers through -buyer's power!

Everything I asked to be in GH5 ALREADY EXISTS on the market! Why avoiding it?

Back in mid-late 90's, to buy a portable external CD reader/burner for you PC was around 2000$. Then soon the new wave come and PC's started been sold with built in CD reader/burner, for a fraction of the price. By 2002 nobody was buying external ones anymore. We are at that stage in cameras now. With smartphones shooting photo and video the way they do, there is no way you can charge 3-10 times more for a dedicated con/prosumer photo/video camera because-soon nobody will buy them! Alexas and Phantoms-YES. DSLR/Mirrorless-NO!

How many owners of 5D mark III bought the latest 5D versions(whatever their idiotic codes names are)? I know of - nobody.

Whoever was shooting video, sold the bodies, kept EF lenses and switched to sony. And they will probably come back to Canon once their put out Canon version of GH5.

Unless GH5 comes with specs same or close to what I asked, it will have the destiny of latest 5D incarnations. And most video m43 users will switch to Canon because m43 optics is not worth staying with m43 the system. Panasonic today is Pentax SLR in post LX model era. And we know what happened to that :(

If the GH5 will have a 20 Mpixel sensor it could have an ex-tele crop mode for 4k. Normal 4k video would be full sensor and I would like to see also smooth sensor zooming and panning with some buttons. The zooming in video playback would be nice too. Now it is only possible with 4k video first frame.

The key is more processing power. It would enable DFD for 4k and many kind of new tricks (like showing exposure values).

Ill be surprised if it has 1080p 422. 4k at 60p too. It'll probably have the same 20mpx sensor in the gx8. It will have nice things like good IS and 2 card slot and lots of whiz bang. Big jump in image quality? don't see it coming. Photo camera, huge room for improvement here. GH line always had much weaker photo.

RAW video? please. Bastardized hdmi output crap again. Maybe in the af101 replacement if they ever do one. Bet it will stay with MFT mount as well. Too many pan lens to change mount. It will cost 1500.

Panasonic brings a lot to the game. The G series of cameras G7, G8, and GH4 all come in at a super low price point considering what those cameras bring to the table. That being said they may lose out in the $1000-$2500 price point because Sony is really bringing the heat on in that segment. In the $1000-$2500 segment it seems as though Sony is giving everybody mostly what they want at a reasonable price point.

Full frame? No no no no!!

If Panasonic wants to damn downright OWN the $2500ish+ price segment (they already have the sub $1500ish and sub $1k segments mastered with the GH4/G7/GX80 lines), all they need to bring out is a camera which is a hybrid of the good bits of AF100/LS300/C100/FS5/DVX200/GH4.

A camera with ND filters, XLR inputs, SDI outputs, full size HDMI, and waveforms but also has internal 10bit 4K 60fps from a m4/3 sensor (and m4/3 mount), all in the size of something no bigger than what a C100/FS5/etc is! (if they lacked one or two features from this list, I really hope they don't, it wouldn't be a complete deal breaker so long as it has most of those features)

If Panasonic could do this and still keep the price under $3K (or at least close to it, maybe even $3.5K ish), then they'd ruthlessly own the market ahead of any Sony A7 series camera which is priced the same.

And it would be priced high enough above the GH4/GH5 to not be directly competing against them, and would be priced waaaaaaaaay below Varicam LT, so wouldn't be competing with the Panasonic cameras above it either. (the Panasonic camera it might do the most harm to is sales of the DVX200, but that would only be priced about the same or even a little cheaper when you factor in the cost of buying the lens or lenses you'd need to match what the DVX200 comes with, plus the DVX200 is aimed at a slightly different market)

IF Panasonic ever comes out with a prosumer hybrid camera with a mount other than m4/3, I hope they skip right ahead to medium format digital and produce an 8K monster camera!! And forgot about so called "full frame" in between. That way they attack "full frame" from both above and below!

Perhaps in 5 years time? Not totally unrealistic to imagine. We just saw a medium format mirrorless camera come out. And Pentax's 645D and 645Z have been out for quite some years now, and they're very affordable by digital medium format standards. And prices for medium format sensors will only get cheaper and cheaper as the years go by. If Panasonic aims to bring out a Medium Format Mirrorless camera in 5yrs time, then they should start doing R&D on that within the next couple of years.

Panasonic could do say a 50megapixel Mirrorless Medium Format Digital for $4K. The Pentax 645D already sells new for less than that, and I bet within 5yrs the Pentax 645Z will have dropped below that price point as well. The 51.4megapixel 645Z is 8256 x 6192 pixels, 4K DCI is 4096 x 2160 pixels. Double that & you get 8192 x 4320 pixels which works out perfectly for an 8K camera from the 645Z sensor!

@ahbleza

Use original source next time.

I also think it is wrong info.

Possible information on Sony sensor in GH5... same as GX85.

"Now trusted sources has posted new Panasonic GH5 sensor information and it looks like the upcoming model will come packed with the same 16MP resolution found in the newly announced GX85. The sensor looks like the same as the previous model and it will be made by Sony."

http://www.dailycameranews.com/2016/06/panasonic-gh5-sensor/

@Brig quote: "Thats the only thing that will not make me switch to sony or canon or somebody else. If no-go, well tough shit...go FUCK YOURSELF panasonic and all the lazy, sleezy, spineless, evil, stupid and fools who work for them!"

I think you should sell all your Panasonic gear right now. It will make you feel better. ;-)

I would realy like for future users and prospective buyers of GH5 to stop been so looser mentality driven! And sooooo defetistic, and depressed and inaccurate in their judgments and with such low expectations on what they should get from GH5.

Just to remind you:

Right now we have cameras (and freaking phones ?!?!?!!!) in a range od 800-3000$ that offer:

• Global shutter (BM)
• 4K (sony/panasonic/samsung and iphones)
• 3/5 axis stabilisation (olympus)
• RAW file (canon/BM)
• Log shooting (panasonic/sony)
• 12+ Dynamic range (sony)

So given that all of these already exist, I see no reason why the future panasonic flagship camera shouldn't include what's already existing on the market?! Why should they avoid it?!

And along with mentioned, in my wish list I would like to add that I exprct GH5 to have:

• noise free image
• acurate colors and skin tone
• no extra crop BoollSheet but straight 2x native sensor crop in 4K video
• functional and practical iso range 50-25k
• 10-bit and 12 bit and any other bit and 422 and 120fps and prores and everything else with appropriate data rates...
• intuitive menu
• peaking that shows only points in focus
• articulated screen
• water/weather sealed body

So from a new panasonic GH5 camera I expect to have all of it plus it all has to be internal and have amazing autofocus and ALL of it MUST WORK AMAZINGLY WELL with no quazy pseudo fuss and krapp mistakes!!!

And it shouldn't cost more than 1500.00 US$!!!

Thats it!

Thats the only thing that will not make me switch to sony or canon or somebody else. If no-go, well tough shit...go FUCK YOURSELF panasonic and all the lazy, sleezy, spineless, evil, stupid and fools who work for them!

If you think that I am asking too much, let me remind you of few things that people seem to slip out od their sight:

1. broadcast world is shrinking; TV and cable is about to go out of biz very soon; its a public secret that very few talk about; protecting high end market cameras within same company is simply stupid.
2. freaking smartphones have picture that is comparable if not compeatable with dedicated show biz industry cameras
3. audience and consumers do not ask for what corporations are tryng to sell them and they especialy do not want to pay premiums for content that can be found elsewhere for free; and that brings the price of tools and wages of people who use them-waaaaay downslope (if you don't believe me, ask Tom Hirsch:)
4. when tools are sold on the market, there are two ways to pay for them: -BBC, NBC, ABC, HBO, big camera rental houses and other big guys, when they buy equipment, they send to manufacturers many digits on the screen and "line of credit" proof file in exchange for real goods and things. -When Joe Doe buys equipment, he very offten pays with hard cash! Like-REAL MONEYYY!!! Like bills and coins! I know its hard to believe, but you and me, when we buy 3 GH4 bodies for 1400$ a piece, we acctualy bring more REAL value and money to Panasonic then when BBC buys 20 bodies of varicams. We give them cash. BBC gives them digital file.

And last but not least: Panasonic tricked and betraid us already. For years they've been pushing for m43 format as their choise of future and then when they finaly put out a pro camera they put it in native -EF mount?!?! Whaaaaaat The FFFFFFFFFF?!!?!! Thats how much panasonic trusts themselves and that's how much we should trust panasonic. As much as all these users of FCP 7 who had to migrate to Avid and Premiere or elesewhere after fcpx showed up...

If I need to elaborate on my statements, I will gladly do so in next reply. Thanks for reading. I hope it helps you position yourself on the market and brings you back your buyer strenth and dignity...

@Vesku

It can, it will look weird.

Whole idea of TV/BR HDR is to keep video normal DR as much as possible to reduce size, and have only specific frame blocks intended to show you "HDR".