Thanks for joining us for this Adorama pro video review. I'm Michael Artsis
and we have something so special I'm excited about I can even wait
here is the GH4 from Panasonic
this one is a pre-production model as of this review this camera isn't even out yet
we've had this for the past two days the first thing I love about this camera is
that it's very very affordable
and it's a tight package it's a mirrorless camera that you can shoot
4k stunning video with right onto a memory card in the camera
it'll take Micro Four Thirds lenses and with a firmware update
you won't only be able to shoot you UHD 4k
but also supposedly DCI 4k now this camera is very similar to the GH3
especially in body at the same body at the magnesium body what you do also have
an audio in and a headphone jack on the camera - so if you are just using
camera you can record external audio and monitor that audio
and you do have HDMI jack right on the camera now
it shoots great stills but I think you're all you care about his video
that were I think is most desirable about the camera, the ISO goes all
the way up to 12,800 but realistically you don't wanna go past
1600 noise gets really high I think you know staying between 200 and 400 maybe
even eight hundred is really where you want to be at
and use best lenses you can add an optional
breakout box from Panasonic that they've made
everybody's been asking for DSLR for a while it's like a battery grip
for a DSLR and look what you can do you can take the 4k
and you could spit it out uncompressed 422 10-bit
to an external recorder - we did it we took
and AJA Quad Ki Pro and we hooked it up
and we're giving you stunning 4K video that is completely uncompressed now in
addition to that on the break box you get true
XLR audio input and great audio preamp. Hey I'm Michael Artsis thanks for joining us
we've got a great Mike test here on the GH4
of course then you have audio dial to control the audio you can go 48
phantom power line for mic and you can
monitor your audio with nice LED level
in addition to that. You power this thing by 4 Pin
XLR battery brick for battery belt
or the plug into the wall and you also have HDMI out
enough about the stats let's check out some of this video
now first we were into Times Square at night and we wanted to show you how
stunning Times Square could look
so check this out this is what it's all about how good the footage looks
you can see that with the Micro 4/3 lenses were using a Panasonic
lens right now and you can see that the auto focus tracking is actually pretty
quick
and pretty accurate you can also put in an adaptor on this Micro 4/3 camera
and take
other lenses on it like this Nikon glass this is a 50mm
1.4 that were using in this bar it's very low light you might wanna shoot
your friends concert
or a recital or some other event you do get some more ray you
do get some anti-aliasing and of course there's rolling shutter
that's what you get from a DSLR and its digital CMOS sensor
that's not going to go away here for I think this camera shines
is really when you're trying to do interviews look at this interview shot
and also product Shot - right we wanted to run the gamut for you to show you how
we will use it in work flows how you might use it - this footage from Times Square
is shot on board in the camera. The footage on the product shot here
are shot using breakout box to an AJA Ki Pro Quad
recorder uncompressed prores 444
video just stunning now you've got a bunch a different frame rates to choose
from you can to 24-16 4k
and you could also shoot 1920 by 1080 on this camera both on board and with
the breakout box and you have a slew of options for that as well
I talked to the folks at Convergent design the other day and they told me
that in just a few months they'll have a firmware update out for the Odyssey Q7
that allows you to do
Prores 444 coming out of the breakout box this GH4
so you can use the Odyssey Q7 its really amazing monitor / recorder
right on board you have focus P I think with these small monitors on a camera like this
having that really helps you figure out your focus
and it's not something to live by but it's certainly a good tool to have in
the bag
so this is a Panasonic GH4 shooting
4k video we plugged into TV at Adorama
that was 4k we look at some the footage and it was just unreal
for the price point that this camera is I really think it's going to be amazing
the great thing about recording 4k in the camera is that it's a light enough
codec
to edit on most computers that you already been editing on we're using it
iMac with FCP X on it to edit and you can do it
on this iMac it premiered now with 4k footage you really have to have a
storage array and a server
and we've got that infrastructure but we're still using imac to
edit and I think that that's really key we can kinda get away with doing it for
this review
with the uncompressed 4k out of the AJA but the reality is we really need to
upgrade our systems fuel to
edit that robust footage I have to say this camera shoots
really well - I'm Michael Artsis thanks for joining us
and stay tuned for the next Adorama Pro video review