@EspenB I did not receive a camera and I have 315,000 subs :)

I wonder if the GH6 will be Netflix approved considering the codec options. It's an interesting camera, if you can get past the autofocus challenges. Tempting in many ways. I noticed Panasonic are offering a free "early adopter" gift in the form of a Lexar 128GB CFExpress card.

If you are tracking something fast, whether it is a bird or a ping pong ball, then AF is important.

Throw the autofocus away and you have a really hard to beat camera. I wish it had the GH5II wifi connections and live YouTube streams.

The additional data that it has against the Sony cameras is impressive.

This is a no brainer for many applications. Much more than any sony line, except for low light and autofocus GH6 beats almost anyone.

hi guys and girls, I have accompanied this community since GH2, always with a benevolent and amused look, always passionate about each other's opinions... I have been a television producer since 1998 and I have always had an unwavering passion for cameras . I shot programs for television in GH2 (with which I still take photos!), music videos in GH4, corporate films, endless interviews... Today I have an FS7 markII, nice lenses and a GH5 that I always use in my professional practice when working solo (yes!).

So I have seen in these pages the arrival of many new LUMIX... and each time... it's the same comedy ;) There are those who complain of not having had such and such capacities, such a gadget, such a function... There are also those who utter furious and indignant reproaches against these Panasonic people "who didn't understand anything", "who didn't do better than Sony", etc.

Here's what I think about it myself: it's not the camera that makes the director. The permanent competition of "the one who will have the biggest" does not change the case: do you know how to tell something? If I'm telling you that, it's because the answer is not in the gadgets of your new camera... I shot on film, in Hi8, in Betacam, in DV, I did commercials for the television with Canon 5D (!) in short, I have known dozens of different cameras and very often I had no choice: I used what I was given. The most beautiful films in the world were shot with cameras that only knew how to capture light. 30 seconds of well-filmed Super 8 is sometimes worth a lot more than hours of rushes out of the latest full-frame model of my balls that costs a blind. When I see certain Youtube influencers who have never sweated two minutes to tell an interesting story and who do very often disgusting tests and reviews, who don't even know how to make a frame, put a tripod in the right place, who adjust their diaphragm anyhow and who know nothing about color grading... It makes me laugh... Most of them only know how to do one thing: go film their girlfriend in the park closest to home with their new toy to see if one autofocus is better than another... Les amis ! Friends! The best autofocus is your eye combined with your finger!

Sorry to be my old veteran here, but frankly, the endless debates around the technology chosen for the autofocus, what the fuck are we kidding? I know it's a bit excessive to say it like that, but it's to give you an idea of ​​how I feel when I read all the cynical and indignant comments, all these analyzes from people who don't know anything about it to the effort and science needed to make such tools. I don't know how to make a camera either, yet I am always surprised at the way Panasonic responds to the real practices of my professional daily life. I want to pay tribute here to the engineers at Pana who each time manage to offer great and not too expensive cameras that make it possible to produce quality images and sound, in a transportable and affordable format. Panasonic's credo is to make "Swiss army knife" tools and once again this powerful GH6 will allow young directors to hone their skills, perhaps to shoot their first films and for that, thank you Pana!

@gabilourson you are a pretty cool guy. Also an FS7mkII user and always surprised at the results with proper planning.

Panasonic GH6 manual available at

https://av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/support/dsc/oi/GH6/index.html

I use auto gain control all the time. I would not buy a camera without it.

Well said @Energy80s Except for the kit lens (forgotten in some drawer), all my lenses are manual and would never use auto-anything for serious work.