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and the image stabilization?Difficult for me to consider buying one over the currently used NEX-6, despite the electronic shutter and the quiet mode. 1000€ on this while the FF NEX is just around the corner would make me look ridiculous.
I am happy to see the developments. Wish they introduced this instead of the GX-1, sometime time ago.
But you can make that space infinite. Just buy another camera :ROTFL:The ridiculousness will not be due to lack of features but a dip in my wallet that has a finite space.
If price is an issue, the $3K rumored FF-NEX is quite a stretch. Besides, I'd expect Sony will take quite a while to make a decent range of lenses for any system like that.It is rumored that 5 axis sensor stabilization will be available in Sony NEX' soon. I am an excellent sensor cleaner myself.
The ridiculousness will not be due to lack of features but a dip in my wallet that has a finite space.
They all have decent sensors these days and thus other criteria have become more important for buying one over the other. At least the sensors don`t hold anybody back from making great shots.Am I the only person around here bemused at the number of people placing orders for the GX7 before we know which sensor it contains?
Tony
What suits your wife and what suits me are two very different things.The only thing notably lacking from m43 (in my humble opinion) is good AF. When visiting our daughter at camp, my wife said (about an OM-D with 75/1.8 lens) "This thing is so slow to focus. Why didn't you bring the Canon with the big white lens?":shocked::shocked:
Matt
We know what sensor it contains ... a new one. What we are not sure of yet is the measurement of its performance. However, since I am still quite happy with the performance of my ancient E-1's old 5Mpixel sensor, and every later camera seems to have an even more capable sensor, I'm sure the GX7 will perform well enough.Am I the only person around here bemused at the number of people placing orders for the GX7 before we know which sensor it contains?
I'm still using the GH2. I thought that Panasonic had overproduced, or overbought, that sensor (antiicipating sales to Olympus that dwindled rather than grew). Did I not read around here that all the newer bodies were using essentially the same sensor, albeit with evolving software?We know what sensor it contains ... a new one. and every later camera seems to have an even more capable sensor, I'm sure the GX7 will perform well enough.
G
I don't know what you read around here or what the GH2 sensor use has been across models, but Panasonic says quite clearly in their press release that this is a new design sensor:I'm still using the GH2. I thought that Panasonic had overproduced, or overbought, that sensor (antiicipating sales to Olympus that dwindled rather than grew). Did I not read around here that all the newer bodies were using essentially the same sensor, albeit with evolving software?
It doesn't give much in way of technical specifications for the new sensor, but press releases never do.from Popular Photography - New Panasonic Lumix GX7 and Leica Nocticron 42.5mm f/1.2 lens and official Panasonic Press Release
...Panasonic developed a new 16.00-megapixel Digital Live MOS Sensor for LUMIX GX7 that achieves both high resolution and high sensitivity image recording with minimum noise by utilizing cutting-edge Semiconductor Fine Technology to improve color saturation by approx. 10% and a redesigned on-chip lens that enhances light condensation to achieve approx.10% higher sensitivity. Noise generation is minimized in both pixel circuit and digital signal readout circuit for better S/N ratio by approx. 25% and detail reproduction by approx.10% compared to the LUMIX DMC-GX1, making it possible to capture clear images even in low lit situations. The image processor Venus Engine features advanced noise reduction systems, including Multi-process NR (Noise Reduction) and Detail Reproduction Filter Process, which enhances the limit resolution. The combination of the digital Live MOS Sensor and the Venus Engine achieves max. ISO 25,600. ...
All the m43 sensor discussion and hype is getting really boring. There were 2 major achievements in the past years, the GH2 sensor (which was already 18MP and multi ratio) and the OMD sensor some 18 months ago. Never ever have we seen a real 18MP sensor on m43 format, which at least was the goal behind 43 when it was developed (more than 10 years ago).Yeah, even though Panasonic called the G5 and G6 sensors "new" because they used partially updated parts, the output still stayed very similar to the GH2.
Now, with the GX7, Panasonic has again called it a "new sensor", but also provided some technical explanation of what is different: larger photo-diodes and a new noise-reducing electronic circuit, primarily. This seems to be at least a more substantial update in sensor technology than the G series was getting.
I think a lot of people recognize that while that GH2 series sensor performed well, the Sony sensors in the GH3 and most recent Olympus cameras has slightly better dynamic range and low-light performance. The oldest of these, the E-M5, is now nearly 18 months old so the big question is, will we see a step beyond even that? Or will it merely be similar to what we have now?
At the end of the day though... only the pixel peepers know for sure. The rest put in their early pre-orders and happily take pictures when the camera arrives, without a care for how the camera they didn't order would have performed.