Panasonic GH7 Spec Comparison and First Impressions | My Thoughts on the New Panasonic Lumix GH7

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In this video, I give my honest opinion on the new Panasonic GH7. Sorry, it's a bit of a long video, so I have given the timestamps in the comments. Pre-order the Lumix GH7 (Released July 8th) 👉 amzn.to/3KtJJjJ Arri LogC3 looks 👉 www.arri.com/en/learn-help/le... If you want to find out more about the Panasonic Lumix cameras, please subscribe for more content.
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#panasonic #lumix #gh7
0:00 - Introduction
1:27 - Price
1:53 - GH6 Similarities
6:43 - Body Changes Over the GH6
8:30 - Improvements Over the GH6
12:18 - Additional Features Over the GH6
27:48 - Bug Fixes
29:48 - Camera Add-ons
38:54 - Dislikes
47:12 - Was ProRes Raw the Right Choice?
48:13 - Summary
49:53 - Final Thoughts (Am I pre-ordering?)

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@stevelitton Месяц назад

1:27 - Price 1:53 - GH6 Similarities 6:43 - Body Changes Over the GH6 8:30 - Improvements Over the GH6 12:18 - Additional Features Over the GH6 27:48 - Bug Fixes 29:48 - Camera Add-ons 38:54 - Dislikes 47:12 - Was ProRes Raw the Right Choice? 48:13 - Summary 49:53 - Final Thoughts (Am I pre-ordering?)

@AoyagiAichou Месяц назад

If you add this to the end of the description (with a 0:00 stamp as well), it'll create chapters!

@stevelitton Месяц назад

@@AoyagiAichou Thank you, appreciate the tip! I just added that 👍

@lu.smoove Месяц назад

It’s criminal that LUMIX never gave you one to test before release! Your knowledge and passion for the GH line/ MFT is undeniable! I’ve learnt a TON from you setting up my GH6! Will you be picking up a GH7 any time soon?

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Thank you, thats really nice to hear that you have been learning from the videos. Haha, I really appreciate you saying that but I don't think Panasonic will be knocking on the door anytime soon 🙂 I find it a bit mad that people can stomach listening to me for more than a couple of minutes outside of the standard tutorials I do. But I felt like I really wanted to talk about this new release with or without the camera. I shot this whole video in one go and at the end I realised it was nearly an hour long and I clearly had a lot I wanted to get out on this topic. I am still on the fence about ordering it, I haven't done it yet but I always wait a while for all the hype to die down before making a decision.

@lu.smoove Месяц назад

Never say never! It’s not the audience size, it’s the QUALITY in content, just keep em coming! You was recommended to me via a MFT group on FB, so you honestly never know who’s checking in on your page 👀..regarding the GH7, it makes sense avoiding the hype train and letting the dust settle and see if people report any bugs. I would love a GH6 firmware update but hey ho…one can dream! All the best with the channel, you’ve got yourself a new sub! 🌟

@stevelitton Месяц назад

@@lu.smoove Thank you, I do really appreciate it 🙏 That's nice that there are people out there recommending my content 🙂 I never see any of that, I just kind of put out the content and just reply to any comments. I think the GH6 still has a bit more life in it yet in terms of firmware updates but we will see. Thanks again 👍

@DroseMr Месяц назад

😂🎉

@lnuponom2678 Месяц назад

@@stevelitton If you have free money and you collect Panasonic cameras, then of course you need to buy the Gh7! :)

@tubekane Месяц назад

Thank you for this excellent, detailed, well researched review. I currently use a GH6 and for my style of shooting, run and gun, my GH6 is working well. As a one-man-band, I have many issues to deal with and anything that can reduce my workflow I am quite happy to consider. For me, the incorporation of 32bit float audio without having a separate device, better auto focus, improved DR boost and a few other improvements are more than enough to convince me that the GH7 will be a welcome upgrade . I will order a GH7 later this year.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

No problem. I am glad you found it helpful. I think we are both on the same page there, I think I will get the GH7 but whether that is at launch, I am not sure.

@halifaxzapp Месяц назад

Oh man, live view composite! heck yeah. Thanks for pointing that out. Also, thank you for covering the extra empty audio channel issue. Glad that is resolved.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Yeah, I am really happy that feature made it into the camera. Hopefully that 2 channel audio update just gets rolled out across the GH6, G9m2, S5ii and S5iiX as well 🤞

@angeloplayforone Месяц назад

The S5II, S5IIx and S9II has a battery grip. The target audience of GH line is more interested in rigging the camera. So changing needs new riggs and mounts.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Yeah, I just wanted to make that clear to anyone coming from the cameras that do have the option for battery grips. The GH line also used to have them, the GH5 had the option for one. It was just the GH6 that dropped the option for one and then that was carried over into the GH7. It's not unusual for video cameras to have the option for one, the BMPCC has the option for one. It's not a massive deal but just something worth knowing.

@pragmaticfilmmaking Месяц назад

I've been waiting for you to drop a vid.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

It's a long one I'm afraid but I timestamped it all in the first comment. I wanted to just make sure I had all the information in there and try not to base any of it on my immediate reaction to the launch as I am obviously quite invested in the GH line of cameras. Let me know what you think, I would be interested to get other peoples opinions on it.

@OCAIOF Месяц назад

Agreed on DR boost changes being the overall best improvement over the GH6. I wish they could manage something like that through firmware updates on the GH6.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

I guess the sensor must be the sticking point there as opposed to other parts of the camera hardware. If they did push some kind of DR Boost advancement through firmware that would be amazing but I think after 2 years we would have seen something by now sadly 😕

@OCAIOF Месяц назад

@@stevelitton Yeah, I guess you are right!

@stevelitton Месяц назад

@@OCAIOF Who knows though, I don't think the GH6 firmware updates are finished just yet so I will remain hopeful 🙂

@pragmaticfilmmaking Месяц назад

Regarding the GH6 battery life, I went on a safari in Senegal this April and two batteries lasted the entire day. Although I wasn’t shooting continuously, I captured all the shots I wanted from around 7am until after 5pm.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

It's really for event client work it struggles the most, I am always on a second or third battery by lunchtime if I use standard batteries. For just going out shooting the odd photo and video clip, it's fine. I still take a second battery with me though. I think the SSD takes a bit of a toll on the battery.

@pragmaticfilmmaking Месяц назад

@@stevelittonI use power banks for events and seminars, and I get over 7 hours of continuous recording with a 15,000 mAh battery and up to 4 hours with a 10,000 mAh battery, and leaving with the internal battery still full. Power Delivery is one of my favorite features of the GH6, as the external battery solutions for long-form recording with the GH5 were unreliable.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Yeah I agree, I love the fact that you can use PD power banks to get long battery life but then you aren't able to use SSD to facilitate those long recordings and that is where my issue lies. I am a bit disappointed they didn't address that issue in the GH7.

@pragmaticfilmmaking Месяц назад

@@stevelitton I’m surprised there isn’t a split cable solution available. That being said I do all my recording internal, just use long gop for longer stuff. 7 hours with a 512 card.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

@@pragmaticfilmmaking Yeah that would be very handy. I guess it would compromise the speed though. LongGOP has to be my go to sometimes for long events just due to the fact I can't get backup recording in the All-Intra and ProRes options. Again, something I wish they had addressed in this camera.

@toriigatedigital Месяц назад

dude you are the biggest fan of these cameras.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

I'm not sure if that is a complement but I will take it as one 🤣

@chinitopinoy1726 Месяц назад

No future proofing for high frame rates. 4K 200 fps or 240 fps should've been a feature. Icing on the cake would've been good quality 1080P or 2K 960 fps even if limited to 2 second recording end trigger mode. lol

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Ha, yeah I would have loved to see some higher frame rates for sure. I absolutely love the high frame modes on the GH6 and its a shame they didn't push the needle at all in that regard.

@DroseMr Месяц назад

Xlr2 work w Gh6 Fw update possible?So does ssd have capacity limit for say 4tb ssd possible?🤪Thank You

@stevelitton Месяц назад

I saw a video with ProAV I think it was where the Lumix rep said the XLR-2 will work will other Lumix cameras but no 32-bit float functionality unless you are using the GH7. They also said that the SSD limit was still capped at 2TB. I am a assuming that is a speed thing with bigger drives.

@DroseMr Месяц назад

Rton.Thank You

@adidabax6809 Месяц назад

Making my way through, so maybe you cover. I keep seeing complaints from long-term users who moved to a PDAF camera that the image is a big change. I forget where I saw it on the GH7 reviews, but they said the same. Lots of people seem to like the OG S5, GH6, S1 series over the image from S5ii/x, G9ii, and I guess now GH7. Curious if you've got thoughts.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Not something I mention in the video but yeah I have seen people mention that and it always seems like they are saying the pre-PDAF sensors looked better. Which I know Sean did mention on Lumix Live and said the PDAF points had a small impact on the image. But to be honest I don't own a PDAF camera from Lumix, so I couldn't comment on that. I could do a comparison if I do get the GH7. I do think some people just don't adjust the noise reduction etc in the profiles or treat V LogL the same as V Log. I guess if it is a thing then you are really making a little sacrifice on image quality for that superior AF and you need to decide which is more important to you.

@petercofrancesco9812 Месяц назад

@@stevelitton I feel like people believe this because Panasonic said the reason they didn't change to PD AF for the GH6 was because it hurt image quality but I always felt this was PR excuse to buy them time because they were behind in developed it.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

I sort of wonder when they say that, if they just mean they have less options of sensors to use that will hit the cameras desired price point.

@petercofrancesco9812 Месяц назад

@@stevelitton I was told Sony made the sensor and it's up to the camera manufacture to implement the features they want. In my eyes what happened was the GH was intended for cinema type shooting where you commonly don't use AF. But they were ignorant to the fact the market had changed to the predominately social media Youtbers who needed reliable AF to film themselves. Black Magic took the budget cinema buyers away from Panasonic.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Yeah the BMPCC 4K release absolutely rocked the market and other manufacturers are still playing catch up to that in some regards. But Panasonic do excel in other areas like IBIS.

@lnuponom2678 Месяц назад

I see that there are comments that phase autofocus on the Gh7 spoils the image. What does this mean and why do you need such autofocus?

@stevelitton Месяц назад

I don't have any of the PDAF versions of the cameras so I can't really comment on that. The new AF is really mainly aimed at video shooters as it improves the speed of the AF and reduces hunting when being used continuously.

@lnuponom2678 Месяц назад

@@stevelitton If you believe the rumors, this camera is killing the picture. This means that no one will use phase detection autofocus.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

As I say, I really don't know if it makes any difference and I think sometimes people overlook settings when they make these statements. Some people, comment on colours and others comment on the 'digital look', both can be resolved.

@lnuponom2678 Месяц назад

@@stevelitton Buy a GH7 urgently, tell everyone what kind of defect there is in the autofocus. :)

@stevelitton Месяц назад

🙂

@jimgiraffe5253 Месяц назад

i have a sneaky feeling that panasonic might release a gh7x later. same as s5ii / s5iix but i might be wrong

@stevelitton Месяц назад

What would it do though? The 'X' differentiation is the black design, All-Intra and SSD recording. The GH6 and the GH7 do all of that already, minus the black design.

@angeloplayforone Месяц назад

Sorry, but when the GH6 was released there were around 50 You Tube video reviewing this camera. This time there were a lot of video. This means that not many reviewers got the camera. Besides that not many are discussing this camera on RU-vid. The above points that the interest in Panasonic video based cameras and m43 related camera in particular has decreased. I think that the GH6 was the time that Lumix should have released PDAF. After that people simple moved on to other brands and cameras as Sony FX30 and Sony FX3. This 2 cameras has more reviews that popup out even when Sony informed of firmware update. That Lumix their camera with PDAF function on fast points that interest in their camera decreased.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

I can't deny that I think the market has shrunk over the years for the GH line of cameras. In part, this was due to Panasonic's premature release of the GH6, it was a bad marketing decision, and no one can deny that. But, luckily M43 has Olympus to satisfy some of the photo users outside of the Lumix audience and manufacturers like Blackmagic and Z CAM to cater for the more cinema-orientated video users. M43 is still alive and well and I can tell you that from experience of buying and selling MFT lenses. This looks like a great camera, is it a little late, yes, is it perfect, no, but really what camera is? In part, cameras are evolving much quicker than the technology around them, 90% of shooters don't need 6K or 8K, a lot of Lumix users did just want that reliable AF and everything else is just icing on the cake.

@lnuponom2678 Месяц назад

@@stevelitton Why is GH6 a bad solution? I'm happy with this camera.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Not a bad solution but bad timing around their other cameras releases and feature-sets at the time.

@kennethgooswit3697 14 дней назад

What iam missing is internal recording of BRAW, and an OLPF, PRORES RAW is nice but BRAW is king.

@razfilmstv Месяц назад

My G9II has many of the same specs/same sensor as the GH7. I won't be using ProRes Raw anytime soon. Maybe if Lumix had a good trade in bonus like they did with the G9II I might consider it.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

To be honest if you have the G9II then you likely don't need the GH7, it's more of a side step than an upgrade if you aren't using ProRes RAW or planning on buying the new XLR-2 unit.

@razfilmstv Месяц назад

@@stevelitton I don't plan on doing either. A side step is a good way to put it.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Sounds like you are all set with the G9 in that case. It looks like a great camera.

@GrayGhostDog1 Месяц назад

... I'm sure the Atomos Ninja Ultra covers 4K120, as well.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

You are right there, I always forget they changed the name in the newer version.

@Memory_Gatherers Месяц назад

As LUMIX pretty much shit on the GH6 30 mins post launch is anyone making a magic lantern type software for it ? Release the inner beast.

@stevelitton Месяц назад

That would be awesome, it's clearly got the same internals (aside from the sensor) as the GH7, otherwise they would have actually updated some of the shooting modes. I do wonder if them mapping out the software for the GH7 now makes it easier for them to port things to the GH6. I hope there are more updates on the horizon for the GH6, it does deserve a bit more love before they send it out to pasture. It's still a very capable camera, even without the new DPAF system.

@Memory_Gatherers Месяц назад

@@stevelitton Same Steven, it is easily capable so I too hope to see a FW update or two just to add a few features. not bothered at all about AF improvements but realtime luts and lumix app integration would be a nice farewell from Lumix. They are adding Arri log as a paid addon so you never know

@stevelitton Месяц назад

Yeah I am hoping there are still a few firmware updates left in the GH6. I remain hopeful 🤞🙂

@BarryMaskell Месяц назад

It’s disgusting that P has dropped the GH6 - many of the additional features are software based and could be added to the next firmware update - I don’t think it’s a big enough upgrade to warrant buying - I’ll wait until the GH8

@stevelitton Месяц назад

I completely agree, the guts of the GH7 is clearly the same as the GH6 with the exception of the sensor. Don't write of the GH6 just yet though, I may still receive future firmware updates. We could be waiting another 4 years for a GH8, who knows 🤷‍♂️