{"id":10963,"date":"2010-09-21T18:52:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T18:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=10963"},"modified":"2010-09-22T05:21:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T05:21:19","slug":"the-new-panasonic-gh2-and-ag-af-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/the-new-panasonic-gh2-and-ag-af-100\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Panasonic GH2 and AG AF-100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both have recently been announced.<a href=\"http:\/\/philipbloom.net2010\/08\/13\/the-future-of-video-dslrs\/\"> I have already talked a little bit about how I think the AG AF100 will or won&#8217;t affect the DSLR market.<\/a> I am hoping to get one to try soon from Panasonic UK when I get back to England. I am very excited by it. I am already a GH1 (hacked) owner and love it. I have sone nice micro 4\/3rds glass and all my Leica M series glass works on them as well as my Nikons and to a point my Canons (no aperture control though).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10965 lazyload\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-09-21 at 13.50.32\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-21-at-13.50.32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"288\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-21-at-13.50.32.jpg 426w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-21-at-13.50.32-310x209.png 310w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 426px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 426\/288;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10965\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-09-21 at 13.50.32\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-21-at-13.50.32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-21-at-13.50.32.jpg 426w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Screen-shot-2010-09-21-at-13.50.32-310x209.png 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t shot with it, just know the specs. Until I get to shoot anything with it I can&#8217;t really say how good or bad it is&#8230;on paper it looks great! The HD-SDI out, XLR inputs, viewfinder etc&#8230;24mbs AVCHD a bit of a let down, but with the clean HD-SDI the pros have other options..Shame there is no option for AVC intra&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The GH2 has recently been announced and looks like a nice upgrade from the GH1, incorporating a lot of the features from G2 and upping the AVCHD bitrate to 24mbs from the GH1 17mbs&#8230;of course with my hacked one shooting well over 50mbs not sure how this makes me feel&#8230;24mbs is not bad, 50+is of course way better. I am sure Tester 13 will hack the GH2 once he gets his hands on some firmware but this is going to be some way off I am sure. \u00a0What the specs do say that excites me is the ability to use HDMI for clean output&#8230;well that is what it says, if this is true then this is great so we can use devices like the Nanoflash etc to get away from AVCHD completely into nice I frame codecs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I hope to get a review camera soon to try it all out, well both of them until then&#8230;I can&#8217;t say how good or bad they are, if they are better than cameras X, Y or Z&#8230;as soon as I can, I will!! Keep you fingers crossed that I can get hold of these cameras!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/1009\/10092130panasonicgh2.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10964 lazyload\" title=\"GH2k_slant14140LCD\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GH2k_slant14140LCD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"380\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GH2k_slant14140LCD.jpg 520w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GH2k_slant14140LCD-310x226.jpg 310w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 520px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 520\/380;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10964\" title=\"GH2k_slant14140LCD\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GH2k_slant14140LCD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GH2k_slant14140LCD.jpg 520w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GH2k_slant14140LCD-310x226.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/1009\/10092130panasonicgh2.asp\">You can read an appraisal of the GH2 at DP Review<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/the-new-panasonic-gh2-and-ag-af-100\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,31],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1834,322,374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}