{"id":5787,"date":"2012-09-18T01:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2012-09-19T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T23:34:44","slug":"even-more-exciting-news-panasonic-announces-the-gh-3-and-2-exciting-lenses-for-the-roadmap-42-5mm-f1-2-and-150mm-f2-8-wow-now-i-am-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5787","title":{"rendered":"Even more exciting news.. Panasonic announces the GH-3 and 2 exciting lenses for the roadmap &#8211; 42.5mm f\/1.2 and 150mm f\/2.8 &#8211; wow, now I am excited!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic&#8217;s upgrade to the GH-2 will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:panasonicgh3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GH-3<\/strong><\/a> as leaked, and it will have <strong>the best HD video capabilities of any hybrid camera available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key features of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:panasonicgh3\" target=\"_blank\">GH-3<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16mp sensor, 6fps burst rate<\/li>\n<li>ISO 125-25,600 extended range<\/li>\n<li>much larger than the GH-2 &#8211; more dSLR-like in size<\/li>\n<li>weatherproofed<\/li>\n<li>designed for pro-videographers in particular<\/li>\n<li>fast AF<\/li>\n<li>new EVF with 8x faster data transfer to it for smoother display on panning<\/li>\n<li>three-core Venus 7 FHD engine<\/li>\n<li>swivel, rotate, articulated touch screen<\/li>\n<li>wireless TTL flash for the 1st time in a Panasonic camera &#8211; will it be compatible with Olympus &#8211; I would hope so!<\/li>\n<li>PC sync socket<\/li>\n<li>iOS and Android app control via WiFi (built-in)<\/li>\n<li>.MOV and AVCHD video formats with Timecode support<\/li>\n<li>60p\/50p\/30p\/25p\/24p HD video with 50Mbps in IPB and 72-80Mbps in All-I compression .MOV modes, 28Mbps in AVCHD format and 20Mbps in MP4 format<\/li>\n<li>stereo mic plus 3.5mm mic socket<\/li>\n<li>shutter 60sec &#8211; 1\/4000th sec, flash sync only 1\/160th sec though<\/li>\n<li>HDR mode<\/li>\n<li>electronic shutter<\/li>\n<li>optional vertical grip<\/li>\n<li>550g<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:panasonicgh3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome stuff which really value adds to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/doku.php?id=photo:microfourthirds\">Micro Four Thirds system<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what I am really interested in are the new Panasonic lenses they are teasing us with (on the roadmap for 2013-14):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>42.5mm f\/1.2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>150mm f\/2.8 HD<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus their previously announced <strong>35-100mm f\/2.8 OIS high end lens<\/strong> now has a pre-order on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Panasonic-H-HS35100-35-100mm-G-Series-Cameras\/dp\/B009B0X9PI\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon <\/a>for $1499 &#8211; not cheap, but that is the price of quality, in compact size.<\/p>\n<p>What a brilliant system the Micro Four Thirds is turning into!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile still waiting on shipment of the stunning Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 lens to go with my Olympus 12mm f\/2.0 and 45mm f\/1.8 lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic&#8217;s upgrade to the GH-2 will be the GH-3 as leaked, and it will have the best HD video capabilities of any hybrid camera available. Key features of the new GH-3: 16mp sensor, 6fps burst rate ISO 125-25,600 extended range much larger than the GH-2 &#8211; more dSLR-like in size weatherproofed designed for pro-videographers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23],"tags":[18,261,241,15],"class_list":["post-5787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-lenses","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-gh-3","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-panasonic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}