posted Monday, February 21, 2022 at 8:00 PM EST
It is a good time for Micro 4 Thirds. The long-awaited Panasonic GH6 is right here, only a week after OM Digital Options introduced its personal new flagship MFT digital camera, the OM-1, and practically a yr after Panasonic first teased the GH6. Panasonic’s next-generation compact digital camera is packed to the brim with new options and enhancements.
At its core is a brand new picture sensor and processing engine. The GH6 incorporates a brand new 25.2-megapixel Reside MOS Sensor, growing the efficient pixel rely by greater than 20%. It additionally features a new Venus Engine that guarantees twice the processing energy of its predecessor, the GH5. The brand new picture sensor ditches a low-pass filter to ship improved superb element and guarantees decreased rolling shutter due to sooner sensor readout.
The Panasonic GH6 incorporates a brand-new 25.2-megapixel Reside MOS picture sensor, providing a greater than 20% greater pixel rely than the GH5 and GH5 II.
The brand new sensor has developed with three key applied sciences: New Clever Element Processing, new 2D Noise Discount, and Excessive Precision 3D Noise Discount for video. Clever Element Processing detects the perimeters and flat and detailed elements in your photographs extra precisely, leading to higher superb element decision. 2D Noise Discount suppresses chromatic noise and improves the feel of the luminance noise in your nonetheless pictures. Excessive Precision 3D Noise Discount does the identical, however for video. The GH6 is healthier capable of detect stationary and shifting topics in your movies and may apply extra exact, higher noise discount, particularly at greater ISO settings. Talking of the ISO, the native ISO of the GH6 is now 100-25,600 for stills and 100-12,800 for video, with an extension all the way down to ISO 50 for each capturing modes.
LEICA DG 12-60/F2.8-4.0: 60mm, F5.6, 1/125s, ISO 125
(Shot on a digital camera utilizing pre-production firmware.)
One other key enchancment that the GH6 has made regarding picture and video high quality is the brand new Dynamic Vary Increase mode. Utilizing this mode, the GH6 guarantees 13+ stops of dynamic vary, a full cease higher than with out this mode enabled. Dynamic Vary Increase works by producing two photographs at completely different positive aspects, one low ISO and one excessive ISO, after which making a synthesized composite picture that takes benefit of the wealthy gradation and dynamic vary of low ISO acquire and the improved shadow element of excessive ISO acquire. This mode is enabled routinely for stills images in sure conditions, together with when capturing at or above ISO 800. Head to our Fingers-on Preview for rather more element.
LEICA DG 12-60/F2.8-4.0: 31mm, F5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 100, -0.3EV
(Shot on a digital camera utilizing pre-production firmware.)
The brand new 25.2-megapixel picture sensor featured within the GH6 would not embody phase-detection autofocus pixels, which means that the GH6 continues to make use of Panasonic’s tried-and-true Depth-from-Defocus autofocus system, which depends upon contrast-detect autofocus. Nonetheless, that does not imply that every part has remained the identical because the GH6 incorporates new AF algorithms that promise a lot sooner efficiency, and the GH6 has extra autofocus zones/areas than the GH5, as much as 315 from 225.
Panasonic GH6 with the Panasonic Lumix G Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 O.I.S. package lens.
Whereas the GH6 is a stills-first digital camera, the GH-series has lengthy been very common for video functions, and the GH6 makes many important strides right here. The GH6 provides 4:2:2 10-bit C4K 60p video with limitless recording time, 4:2:0 10-bit 4K/120p, 4:2:2 10-bit FHD 240p Excessive Body Fee video and FHD with 300fps Variable Body Fee, plus rather more. Along with C4K decision, the GH6 additionally data 4:2:0 10-bit 5.7K 60p video and 4:2:0 5.8K 30p (4.4K 60p) anamorphic 4:3 video that makes use of the complete space of the picture sensor. 5.7K 30p video might be recorded in Apple ProRes 422 HQ for the primary time in a LUMIX digital camera, too, which allows non-linear modifying with out transcoding. Prolonged recording instances are made potential by an built-in energetic cooling system.
LEICA DG 12-60/F2.8-4.0: 60mm, F4.5, 1/800s, ISO 100
(Shot on a digital camera utilizing pre-production firmware.)
There’s rather more to be taught in regards to the thrilling new Panasonic GH6, so head over to our Fingers-on Preview to get the complete scoop and examine our ideas after utilizing the digital camera forward of at present’s announcement.
