As known new Olympus camera has some video quality issues.

One Panasonic insider told that GH5 prototypes also have severe video issues for now. And that spring leaks had mostly one goal - to kick developer team butts so they could accelerate work and fix issues.

If Panasonic is watching this feed. Would love to be a Beta tester. I am a current GH4 owner/user. I still have my GH2. Started on an HVX-200. Currently rent the Varicam for my bigger projects, if loyalty counts for anything.

!080p is nothing to write home to mother about. No Slo Mo to talk about.

I am really interested in it for the 4k with the stabilization with say the 12-100mm lens. Sounds hard to beat, but hoping the GH5 has some kind of IBIS, knowing it will be a overall better video camera than the Oly.

Every one is comparing the GH5 to the GH4, but the G7, GX85 and G85 all have better video than the GH4. I would be surprised if the GH5 is much better than these more recent cams--it;s worth noting that over the last seven years all of these cams claimed to be one to two stops better every time a new model came out, and really there isn't a big difference. If each one was one stop better, that would be four stops total since GH1.

New rumors say the GH5 HAS 6000 pixel wide sensor.

6000 x 3375 pix sensor = 20.25 Mpixel

I'm trying to figure out what kind of file will come out from a 6k photo mode shooting. Any thoughts?

Panasonic GH5 will be available for preorder on January 4th according to BHphoto

43rumors as usual jumps ahead.

Only thing I know is that Panasonic office is very upset that interest to camera vanished so quickly. It is not same self sustaining talks it was with GH4.

A lower launch price than the E-M1 MkII would be a good rumor to revitalize interest :)

Well they need to give people something to talk about which they haven't. So there coming out with a new camera big deal what's the details make us drool with anticipation. Also they need to out do Olympus which has lots to talk about now. It will get really interesting when we are comparing the 2 Micro 4/3 flagships because Panasonic suddenly has some competition who are also first out of the gate. Translated as they may have already lost some future customers for the GH5.

@crammond

What is this link for?

Konosuke Matsushita, Panasonic Founder, Principles

1. The mission of the company is to enrich society
2. Company’s vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers
3. In the long run, the public opinion is right
4. Don’t sell customers goods that they are attracted to; sell them goods that will benefit them
5. Treat your products like your children
6. Any waste will increase the price of the product
7. Stick to fair prices
8. After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales; it is through such service that one gets permanent customers
9. Use complaints to strengthen ties with your customer
10. To be out-of-stock is due to carelessness; if this happens, apologize to your customers, and deliver the goods as soon as you can

It seems that current Panasonic management carefully read them and do exactly opposite.

If future cameras become only H265 recording the files will need transcoding before editing because decoding 4k h265 for playback is impossible in real time in computers we have today.

This is absolutely not true. Every last GPU, including quite cheap as well as latest CPUs have hardware acceleration, no problems.