Until now, the color science is the same in Panasonics and their derived Leicas - only differences are the outside cosmetics, 3 year warranty and a copy of Lightroom bundled. Let's see if there is something new now.

About the shutter speed for video, it was explained in one of the videos posted here - you set the shutter in 1/60 (or any speed) in the upper dial, and change to a value between the stops (like 1/50) using the rear dial (the one with the 4-way controller)

My understanding is that the jpeg engine is different, but what does it matter if you shoot raw? If the recording time for video is different that might add some value.

@kurth September 20

"physically manual control of aspect ratio, shutter speed and aperture on the camera" These are not "physical" controls. They are interpreted by the firmware.

photo oriented 4k video mode"

For this just check GH4 and FZ1000 firmware update.

@stevens37y....the on/off switch is a physical control...and it's interpreted by the firmware. Your statement is an obvious truism. The point is whether you can record video in all of the aspect ratios, and whether the creative filter mode now has manual exposure control....i.e. whether the controls are the ultimate determining/overriding factor.

@Vitaliy...yes ...when the firmware is released , if it's released sooner than the lx100, then they should know what kind of file format. It'd be great if they gave us another 4k option. And it makes sense because many still photographers don't want to use nle's .

ps....according to image-resource, the 16:9 video is cropped after the fact by the camera, not recorded in another aspect ratio

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2014/09/18/firmware-updates-will-bring-4k-photo-mode-to-panasonic-gh4-fz1000

Great news ( in answer to my preceding post ) ! And I really like the revolving recording function as well.

@stevens37y: Using MJPEG instead of h.264 for the "photo oriented 4k video mode" would not make much sense: The quality would be vastly inferior at the same bandwidth. And extracting still images from a h.264 recording is no big deal for a camera processor.

@karl...there's a downloadable mp4 file associated with the above video at vimeo

@karl

not true to both statements is my guess. Well absolutely not true you need to be a paying vimeo customer to download the files, just a member is sufficient....and it looks to me like they let him put his card in the camera on the photokina floor, and take some footage

I've downloaded it but haven't moved it to my g5 for viewing. I have been viewing some 4k fz1000 footage downrezzed in mpegstreamclip, and have been pretty impressed with the 4k converted to 1080. It's great that it's mp4...so easy to work with.

The 4k files are razorsharp. No grain. The dynamic- I don´t know. Need better footage.

idunno what it is, but i can't get myself interested in this camera. the two biggies are probably the fixed lcd and the short range, i like zooming into things a lot. it is a pretty darn nice looking camera overall for the price, but i'm gonna sit back and see what happens ;)

how is the mic? how close is this to the gh4??

I asked Nauticam:

"Do you intend to manufacture an underwater housing for the Panasonic LX100?"

and got the response:

"I am sorry to tell that we do not have a plan for the LX100 camera so far"

That's sad, given that Nauticam did manufacture a housing for the LX7. So I'll have to ask other manufacturers - after all, at least Ikelite also made a LX7 housing. (BTW: There's an article on the Photokina 2014 from a German dive magazine where the author states as if known as a fact "there will be underwater housings" for the LX100. But without disclosing any source or naming a manufacturer, this may of course be just his wishful thinking.)