Panasonic Announced The Development of The World’s First 8K Organic Sensor Camera System

By Louis Ferreira | Published: October 27, 2018


Panasonic previously announced the development of their 8k Organic Sensor. Now they have announced an 8k camera that uses the sensor the 8K Multipurpose Camera AK – SHB 810.

Item name8K multi-purpose cameraImage processing unit
Part numberAK-SHB 810AK-SHU 810
Release dateFall 2019Fall 2019

Panasonic Corporation has developed the 8K camera system equipped with the world’s first*1 8K organic sensor. We plan to launch it in the fall of 2019※2 .

8K Multipurpose Camera AK – SHB 810 is a compact, lightweight, box – type camera that uses a PL lens mount. Equipped with 8K organic sensor which will be the first in the world * 1 . Efficient photoelectric conversion and charge accumulation are achieved at the same time by laminated structure using organic thin film for photoelectric conversion part. We realized a wide dynamic range corresponding to light / dark difference with 8K high resolution, global shutter without skew distortion and flash band * 3 , electronic ND filter function. Read More »

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Today Only Amazon Storage Savings up to 78% Off

By Louis Ferreira | Published: October 24, 2018


Amazon’s Storage savings are back again with savings of up to 78%. There are some great deals on SSD’s and more today only and while supplies last, so make sure you check Amazon today.

Sandisk Extreme Pro 300MB/s
64 gig
128 gig

Sandisk Extreme Pro 95MB/s
128 gig
256 gig
512 gig

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Panasonic Firmware Updates Dramatically Improve GH5/GH5S/G9 AF

By Louis Ferreira | Published: October 23, 2018

Panasonic has dramatically improved their AF, which is good news because the Fujifilm X-T3 is looking to challenge the GH line today and the GH6 is likely not ready to launch yet.

Updates to the GH5 (firmware 2.4)

  • Improvement of tracking performance and minimizing of backfocusing in continuous AF mode with 225 AF points
  • Fix of a One-Push-AE bug in Creative M mode, when SS/Gain-Operation is set to Angle/ISO
  • Fix of bug that sometimes caused timecode to be reset upon battery change
  • Fix of a bug that caused showing all footage, instead of just the intended frame in 6k/4k Photo mode

Updates to the GH5S (firmware 1.2):

  • Improvement of tracking performance and minimizing of backfocusing in continuous AF mode with 225 AF points
  • Fix of a bug that caused the camera to not react appropriately to brightness changes under fluorescent light
  • Fix of a One-Push-AE bug in Creative M mode, when SS/Gain-Operation is set to Angle/ISO
  • Improvement of image quality when using V-Log for VFR recording in Creative Mode
  • Improvement of image quality when using the Intelligent Dynamic Range Controlfeature

Updates to the G9 (firmware 1.2):

  • Improvement of tracking performance and minimizing of backfocusing in continuous AF mode with 225 AF points
  • Fix of a bug that caused the camera to not react appropriately to brightness changes under fluorescent light

The updates are available now and can be downloaded here:

Panasonic GH5: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama
Panasonic GH5S: B&H Photo / Adorama / Amazon
Panasonic Lumix DC-G9: B&H Photo / Amazon / Adorama

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Olympus UC-92 Battery Charger Registered

By Louis Ferreira | Published: October 22, 2018


Olympus registered a new battery charger the other day in Korea and it might be for a new flagship Olympus camera. Hopefully more will leak soon via nokishita.

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Rokinon 85mm f/1.8 Preorders Start

By Louis Ferreira | Published: October 19, 2018


The Rokinon 85mm f/1.8 Lens for m43 can no be preordered at B&H Photo and Adorama

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