Today I received an email from a German dealer that is usually quick with delivery of new products and accurate in its timing statements (Cyberport), stating that they expect to be able to ship GH4s not before June>>
Maybe this only applies for this shop. Just got an email from my online retailer that my GH4 has arrived today. And I also got an email from Panasonic Europe GmbH here in Hamburg that the GH4 will hit the stores in Germany in the middle of may. The downside is that they can´t supply all dealers - only a limited amount of units at the moment...
I talked to my dealer Scandinavian Photo here in Sweden today, they will get a shipment tomorrow to their central warehouse in Gothenburg. I placed my preorder on februari 11 so I hope mine will be in the first batch. In the Stocholm store I am # 3 to get a camera. Crossning my fingers for monday or tuseday.
@roe1and - mine's probably on the same van! You in London?
@DrDave Please explain "digital rain".
Thread started for GH4 Best Video Settings if you're interested.... http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/10255/gh4-best-video-settings#Item_33
@nobbystylus Cambridge. You got yours yet?
I received my camera from Wex today. Love it! However, I quickly noticed a flaw. The OLED display shows considerable banding when reviewing certain pictures. It was particularly evident in pictures taken of a desk lamp against dark wall. Changing the display luminance to '2' (dimmer) seems to mitigate the problem somewhat. The LCD display is much better on the GX7 in this regard. I wonder if the OLED screen will improve with use (like plasma screens)?
@AdamT I'm not sure what the cause is. The same image on the GX7 is noticeably better (lower contrast though). It reminds me of the image you might see on older Plasma screens where you might see noticeable steps in the graduations, suggesting a limited bit depth. In a couple of test images it was much easier to see in the shadow areas. However, the banding is barely visible (probably a result of the JPEG compression) in the images on the iPad. I suspect it's a feature of the OLED technology.
Note: banding is perhaps not the best description, It looks more like limited graduations between colours in some areas.
has the possibility of the gh4 shooting raw been discussed already? if so i'm sorry.
The attached image is of the rear display, taken with an iPhone. The green splodge towards the right edge is much less visible in the viewfinder.
Note: the area showing the green and orange mottling is actually a cream painted wall. The left edge is the corner of a white Draytek router. The image was taken under electric (led) light. I will try to upload the full image for comparison.
GH4: This is crop taken from the full image (too big to post the full image). The image was cropped and saved in snapseed the original was saved in camera as JPEG, Large, Fine. The obvious mottling is vastly reduced - however it is still there, and it looks like chrominance noise? For reference, the image was taken at ISO250 on a tripod using a delayed shutter.
GX7: this is a crop from the same image taken on a Panasonic GX7. Again, the image was cropped and saved using snapseed. The image was taken using similar settings (the camera chose ISO250 to give me the same shutter speed and aperture - however it was a different lens). On the iPad, it seems like the GX7 has less colour noise in the image? This is really more about the difference between the camera display and the final image - but I thought it would interesting to compare to the GX7 as well.
Found this on Vimeo. Reddish Egret digiscoped with Panasonic GH4 96fps on Swarovski STX85 scope, manual focus. This looks better than what I thought 96fps would look based on others comments.
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