Gadgetory

hey guys it's David with the verge and we're here at photokina 2012 in Cologne Germany checking out Panasonic's new Lumix G H 3 except we're not actually at a bar we're at Panasonic's massive booth inside a huge convention center in cologne but bar no bar what's interesting is this new camera the lumix dmc gh3 it's the successor to 2010's gh2 and the gh2 was never really a pro camera but pros really loved it they could hack it and change some of the bit rates and up some of the features and so what Panasonic did with this camera is actually bring a lot of those features into the new model so it's the same 16 megapixel sensor has a new tilting LCD it has an improved viewfinder the auto focus has been improved basically across the board it's designed to work just like a DSLR it just has a micro four-thirds sensor as you can see it's enormous it's especially for a micro four thirds camera we used to them being small with small lenses but this very much feels like a DSLR and it's being marketed like that it's going to be two thousand dollars so it's in the same price range as canons new 60 and nikon d600 and it definitely is designed to play in that same market it's got a ton of video features too that was one of the things that panasonic said the gh2 is used a lot for we actually use two of them to record our podcasts and things like that and so it has a ton of video features it has timecode it has a headphone jack and mic input it can record 1080p video at 60 frames per second it's just designed to be a really really pro level micro four thirds camera and it's actually one of the first we've seen this is a as expensive a micro four thirds camera as we've seen produced and it's going to be really interesting to see it has a obviously much smaller sensor than a full frame 60 or even d600 and we're going to be really curious to see what happens with a camera like this that's designed to be used by pros you