– When it comes to video the GH2 has it all over the NEX 5. There’s a bit of vignetting at wider apertures, but nothing problematic. – About the Panasonic 14mm f/2.5 lens lens: This lens requited itself exceptionally well during my casual testing, producing sharp contrasty images at all apertures with very speedy AF. A little bit of vignetting, focusing is very fast, and silent. – About the Panasonic 100-300mm lens: How good is it? Very good, though again I have not done any lab tests, simply a few hundred real-world frames during a one week period. – At the risk of repeating myself, this is a photographer’s camera. If you have large hands, you may find the grip area somewhat tight for your fingers and so should test for yourself before purchase. Though the camera is small, its very comfortable in hand for someone with “normal” sized hands. Unlike some of its competitors, Panasonic “gets” user interface from a photographer’s perspective. – Which brings us to the Panasonic GH2 specifically, and the G series in particular. – The GH2 comes with an excellent 200 page printed manual. – I did not have an opportunity to do much more than some basic video tests during the week that I have the pre-production GH2 for testing, but I can report that at first glance, every aspect of image quality seems very fine, with none of the mud that marred the GH1. While I haven’t done any lab tests (I’m sure that the technical review sites will do so as soon as production cameras become available), my sense is that Panasonic has licked the AF speed issue on non-DSLRs. – The new sensor’s faster read-out allows the autofocus of the GH2 to apparently equal that of mid-level DSLRs. This represents a good two stop increase in usable ISO sensitivity with comparable noise characteristics. – Even ISO 3200 is usable with just a bit of NR in post processing. That’s not just what the future of this industry is about. They’re simply putting higher resolution and cleaner sensors in the same old boring cameras. As for as I can tell, neither Canon nor Nikon do. The future of the photographic industry belongs to Sony and Panasonic. At one point he paused and said, ->You know – the future doesn’t belong to either of those two. We were talking about the historical market battle between Nikon and Canon. I like how they started the article: “ At Photokina in 2006 I had dinner with a senior executive in the photographic industry. Luminous Landscape wrote a very detailled “Panasonic Lumix GH2 First Look”.
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