Panasonic's newest high-performance DIL, the 12.1-megapixel Lumix GH1, will carry a suggested retail price of about $1,500 when it's released in June. (Compare Prices)
The camera will include a 14mm-140mm lens along with the GH1 camera body. Some of this advanced camera's more impressive features include the ability to shoot HD video, a silent motor, and continuous autofocusing.
Although the mirror-less GH1 will have many manual-control features aimed at intermediate and advanced photographers, it also can operate in a fully automatic mode.
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The ability to shoot HD video has become the main theme for major DSLR manufacturers that introduced their new digital dslr cameras line-up into the market this year. For me, personally, I don’t think that its a good feature for a dslr as you can use other devices to do that. Pls stick to what DSLR camera does best, which is, taking “still picture”.
This is a truly revolutionary digital camera. It beats bigger and heavier DSLRs in every way. In its small body it hides two graphic CPUs and it can simultaneously take pictures in several resolutons. That is just unbeilevable.
An it actually can fit on a palm of your hand. It’s only the lens that makes a bit on the bulky side, but otherwise the very camera’s body is unbeilevably small.
One can say it is trivial, but for example Canon PowerShot SX1 can not fit UV filter on the front of the lens, because zoom motors are so weak and wouldn’t stand the additional weight. At least with Lumix GH1 one actually can have UV filter on the lens. Would you rather scratch cheap peace of glass or $650 worth of optics?
If any owners of this camera are interested, there is Panasonic Lumix GH1 blog started, devoted to the photographs taken with this little wander.