Panasonic has announced the new Lumix TS7 (called the FT7 in other parts of the world), a rugged compact camera that's designed to withstand anything you can in the great outdoors.
It seems that February 2018 is the month of global shutter CMOS sensor breakthroughs. A day after Sony announced the first 1MP+ backlit global shutter CMOS sensor, Panasonic announced its own groundbreaking development: a global shutter CMOS sensor that's capable of 8K, 60FPS, and HDR.
Panasonic has just announced the Lumix GX9 mirrorless and XZ200 compact cameras. Both cameras offer 4K video recording in pint-sized bodies.
Panasonic has unveiled the new GH5S, a hybrid single lens mirrorless camera with improved photo quality and stronger video capabilities.
In addition to its new G9 Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera, Panasonic today announced the new Leica DG Elmarit 200mm f/2.8 Power O.I.S. lens.
Panasonic has just announced the Lumix G9, a serious Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera with high-end features.
High-speed memory cards can be pricey, so you want to know that you’re getting the performance that you are paying for before you lay down the cash. This 8-minute video from Tom’s Tech Time compares 10 microSD cards for their read/write performance, and the results show that the numbers used in marketing cannot always be trusted.
Some cameras are more prone to overheating than others, leading some photographers and videographers to come up with creative solutions for keeping their sensors cool. Industrial designer Eric Strebel came up with a solution that looks pretty unusual: he customized a computer heat sink so that it can be mounted to the back of a Panasonic GF7.
Amos Chapple was documenting ice road trucking in Siberia when he heard about another story. One of the drivers told him what he did in the summertime when the ice road was melted: hunting for mammoth ivory tusks.
Panasonic today announced the new Lumix DC-ZS70, a "Travel Zoom" compact camera for people on the go.
Panasonic camera fans freaked out this week when a report in Japan's largest business newspaper, The Nikkei Asian Review, claimed the company was going to "dismantle," "scale back" and restructure its digital camera division. According to Panasonic, this is not entirely accurate.
Panasonic's powerful new GH5 was one of the (if not the) most exciting camera announcements of CES 2017. And now that it's officially announced, we're starting to see what it can do in the real world.
The flagship GH5 was Panasonic's big reveal of CES (and probably 2017), but the company didn't stop there. Also revealed today is the 4K capable compact GX850 and the 60x superzoom FZ80, both powerful cameras in their own right.
The Panasonic GH4 was a huge hit when it first arrived. The first mirrorless ILC to offer 4K/30p recording, it was a powerful tool for videographers. But if you thought the GH4 was powerful, wait till you get a load of the GH5.
In a video that will no doubt earn him quite a bit of Internet ire, photographer and photo educator Tony Northrup recently took each of the major camera manufacturers to task. From Canon and Nikon to Pentax and Olympus... nobody is safe... except Fuji for some reason.
The folks at Digicame-info (translated link) have gotten their hands on a couple of leaked images of an exciting new Micro 4/3 lens from Panasonic: a super-wide angle Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH.
Any time a camera company takes away resolution with a camera update, they're bound to turn a few heads. That's exactly what Panasonic just did with the all new GX85, an updated, more affordable version of last year's GX8.
Panasonic just announced version 2.5 for the firmware of its flagship mirrorless camera, the GH4. The update adds a few powerful features to the already impressive camera.
4K video recording is appearing on many new digital cameras these days, but it appears Panasonic is itching to take the industry to the next level. A new report says the company is planning to launch a new 6K mirrorless camera during its fiscal year 2016 (a period that ends March 2017). This would likely be the world's first 6K-capable consumer-oriented camera.
Panasonic today announced a trio of new CMOS sensors that offer extreme dynamic range, incredible light sensitivity, and a global shutter.
Panasonic drummed up some excitement back in 2014 by announcing the Lumix CM1, a smartphone with a serious camera that had a 1-inch sensor and a Leica lens.
The successor to that "phone camera" is now out, but it's not what you might expect. The new Panasonic CM10 is a followup to the CM1 that leaves out the phone aspect entirely -- it's now just a "smart camera."
Camera companies were overshadowed yesterday by Nikon's major announcements (i.e. the D5, D500, and new action camera), but there was other gear unveiled as well.
Panasonic announced two new serious compact cameras and a new Leica 100-400mm lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras.
Back in July, Panasonic announced an upcoming feature called "Post Focus" that allows photographers to select their focal point after photos are shot. Instead of using light field technology like Lytro or an array of cameras like Light, Panasonic's feature uses rapid-fire focus bracketing.
Panasonic has begun publishing videos around the world that show how the new feature works.
Shenyang-based camera lens manufacturer Zhongyi is taking to Facebook to give a sneak peek of its latest creation, a Mitakon 25mm f/0.95 pancake lens for Micro 4/3 cameras. The new lens will be one of the fastest lenses available for the system: matched only by Voigtlander's Nokton series of f/0.95 lenses. The Mitakon looks to have the edge with a more affordable product in a much smaller package.
Shane Reetz is a photographer whose Panasonic GH4 developed an issue recently: the lens mount began to wobble in and out. After sending the camera to Panasonic’s repair service and finding out a fix would cost $762, Reetz decided he would try performing surgery on his camera himself. The total cost for fixing the camera turned out to be only $5, and Reetz learned quite a bit along the way.
Panasonic has introduced a brand new lens to their Micro Four Thirds system lineup at IFA 2015 in Berlin, along with color tweaks for three of their existing pieces of glass. The new Lumix G 25mm f/1.7 ASPH is making its debut, while the company’s existing 14-140mm f/3.5-5.6, 45-150mm f/4-5.6, and 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 will soon all be offered in a ‘matte black’ color finish.
Videographers wielding the Panasonic GH4 will be excited to learn that the company will soon be making a compelling new update available. Firmware version 2.3 will allow GH4 cameras to shoot with a new ‘V-Log’ recording mode that enables the camera to capture an additional 2-stops of dynamic range. The technology was previously shown off at NAB 2015 and is finally landing on consumer devices.
Linus of LinusTechTips just published the 9-minute video above that explores whether shooting video at 4K resolution is worth it. Using both a Panasonic GH4 and a Sony FS700, Linus and his team take to discovering the links between video resolution, video bitrate, and downsampling.
Panasonic has built a new 3D photo booth over in Japan that uses 120 Lumix GH4 cameras arranged around a circular room. The GH4 has a price tag of $1,500, so this new photo booth has a retail cost of $180,000 for just the cameras alone.
A few days ago, we shared a report on how Panasonic was developing focus-after-you-shoot technology. The company made an official announcement on it today, but it turns out it's not the light field competitor to Lytro that we had thought.
Panasonic's new "Post Focus" technology actually uses a burst of photos at 4K resolution and 30fps to create a stack of images with focus set at difference distances for each shot. It's like focus bracketing on steroids.
In addition to the new GX8, Panasonic today also announced the new Lumix FZ300, a superzoom camera that's capable of 4K video recording.
Panasonic has just announced the new Lumix GX8, a new Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera that boasts a resolution of 20.3 megapixels -- a first for an MFT camera. This is up from 16MP in the camera's predecessor, the GX7.
Lytro may have launched the world's first consumer light field camera back in 2011 and a more powerful followup, the Illum (pictured above), last year, but it may not be alone in rushing for future milestones in light field photography.
Case in point: Panasonic is said to be working on the world's first light field camera that uses interchangeable lenses.
Photographers can finally stop arguing over what to officially call the latest generation of interchangeable cameras that forgo the prisms of past DSLR brethren. A number of various names have existed including Compact System Cameras (CSC), Mirrorless System Cameras (MSC), Digital Single Lens Mirrorless (DSLM), Digital Interchangeable Lens System Cameras (DILSC), and Electronic Viewfinder with Interchangeable Lens (EVIL). The Consumer Electronic Agency has picked a name, and they are keeping it simple.
When Panasonic unveiled its new Lumix G7 camera this past Monday, the company also gave a glimpse into where it's going with its camera technologies.
Here's what it envisions: 8K cameras that allow photographers to extract 33MP photos. Panasonic wants to make it happen by 2020.
Panasonic has just officially announced its new Lumix G7 Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera, a compact camera that's designed with both serious photography and serious videography in mind.
Bigger things may be coming to Sony's popular RX compact camera line, sensor-wise. A new report says that Sony is field testing a new RX camera that packs a significantly larger sensor -- possibly a Four Thirds format one -- that would put it in direct competition with cameras like the Panasonic LX100.
You can tell that "selfies" are a big trend right now by the fact that more and more camera companies are touting it as a feature for their new models. Less than a week after Fuji launched a "selfie-ready" mirrorless camera, the X-A2, Panasonic is unveiling its own: the GF7.
A followup to the GF6, the GF7 is an entry level Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera that offers "modern selfie shooting features," something Panasonic calls "one of the world's most powerful trends."
One of the most exciting things about capturing high resolution video with the Panasonic LX100 is the ability to extract high resolution still photos from it. Video grabbing is not a new thing, but in standard definition you were looking at stills measuring a third of a Megapixel, and even in Full HD you'd only enjoy 2 Megapixels. But with 4k video you can make 8 Megapixel grabs which is much more useful.
Panasonic recently collaborated with German design firm WertelOberfell in creating a series of case designs for the Lumix DMC-GM1 mirrorless camera. The cases were created with a 3D printer and were inspired by three "design epochs."