No 96 fps, crop of 2x+1.2x in 4k, up to 30 fps in 4k only, no native 422 10 bit colours (I did not understand how), and the price? Boh..

This camera is just an epic fail.

just watched the video, it's really impressive.

Just put a preorder in locally, though from the looks of it I´ll have to get one from Japan or the US. Might just give it a test run over here before. Unless they scrap the whole 30min limit thing. Ridiculous indeed!

just show us your oscar nominated works with your ideal camera!

Imagine how it'll look in 4K graded raw.

@Vitaliy ""Only in EU. Say thanks to EU guys. But as it is switchable you could buy it in any other place."" And Europe? I'm guessing that 30' limit recording time is still active

The crop and reframe argument with 4k at 2.3x is far from ideal as the cropfactor increases even more. I bet you don't buy lenses at a certain focal length to just use the center bit of the glass and turn every lens into a telelens. And will you shoot a frame wider to maintain post cropping options??

Proper crops are 2.25x (Cinema 4K) and 2.4x (4K). BM guys solved all this problems long ago.

That base unit looks like a quick rehash of over produced af101 audio components which I guess didn't sell the way they were hoping. Nothing wrong with that though :-) remake, remodel.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev ,

the question I hat is: can YOU hack this? Or is this system good enough? 96Hz in 1080p is fantactic, but can this camera more? Maybe 120Hz?

An whats about the ISO restrictions in the Moviemode? My GH2 has no anymore and that is very good, but I know, the GH3 has one and I never seen a hack for that issue.

An what is with the 29:59 min recording-limit?

why don't people, after all this time, still not understand why there's a 29.59 min limit on these cameras?!

Why people after all this time do not try to read things written above and understand that it is EU law, as otherwise EU gets big fee from every product not having limit (as it can be used to record movies in cinema). Yes logic is not present here, but it is your government, what do you want?

All cameras outside EU do not have limit. As this cameras is global and not restricted it is not a problem for EU either as you can get it in any other place.

yes and this is not just for the cinema. It has other restrictions and taxes. And for all it is easier and cheaper to sell a photocamera with the recordlimit as a photocamera and not - without the recordlimit - as a filmcamera. All cameras that can be record mire than 30 min is automatically a filmcamera. And is no matter that the device is a Canon 5F MKII oder a RED EPIC...

Using the external unit... How do we place bars and follow focus?

I suppose body price will be interesting, let's see with Pro conector.

From what I've read so far, this is a piece of equipment indie frugal-class filmmakers could only dream about 2 years ago.

I have a strong urge to get one, even though realistically I don't need it...but I'm trying to reason myself - I'm thinking whoever buys this, he will be set from buying another camera for 3 or more years...right?

What more will you need, what can GH5 or whatever the successor offer that would make you upgrade GH4?

Also, all these specs make me think one thing only...there's no excuse no more to not make award winning movies anymore. At this point, it's only one's creativity that needs the firmware hack :)

0-255 luma range selection is cool feature, but what about 10bit 0-1023?