Matrix resolution 16 megapixel capable of shooting video in 4K @ 30/25 / 24p autofocus in real time. The “4K photo” allows you to retrieve footage from 4K footage individual frames as photos 8-megapixel resolution.

Panasonic Lumix G7 offers three functions for the “4K images”, namely:

• Mode 4K Burst Shooting – shooting an 8-megapixel images at 30 frames / s;
• Mode 4K Burst S / S – as continuous shooting, but start and stop (S / S) is carried out separately pressing the shutter button;
• Mode 4K Pre-burst – a series of 60 pictures that are made before and after pressing the shutter button.

Here is a sample video in 4K by Panasonic G7 (for the full experience, of course, need to include screen resolution 4K):

The camera has a built-in electronic viewfinder resolution of 2.36 million pixels, as well as swivel LCD display resolution of 1.04 million pixels.

Among other important features of Lumix G7:

• Sensitivity range up to ISO 25600;
• Speed AF 0.07 seconds;
• Full-frame continuous shooting at 8 frames / s;
• Autofocus with face detection and eyes;
• Minimal Electronic Shutter Speed 1/16000 sec;
• Focus picking;
• Panoramic and Timelapse(interval) recording;
• Built-in Wi-Fi
• Standard 3.5 mm jack for an external microphone.

Conclusion of Lumix G7

Panasonic Lumix G7 can boast very interesting features and functions over their competitors. Lumix G7 will go on sale in mid-June 2015. The benchmark price – $ 800 per set with 14-42 mm lens, or $ 1,100 per kit lens 14-140 mm.

Source: Panasonic

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What comes to mind when the words “compact camera with replaceable optics”? Something small and amateur… This view was relevant five years ago, and it is for the high-tech industry is a huge time. Today, having played in “reflex and Soap”, manufacturers offer a really interesting model.

Category of compact cameras with replaceable optics today is very diverse. It includes devices with high-aperture optics and small matrix “inch” models and quite unfamiliar to the general public with a large camera arrays and lenses with fixed focal length.

For the sake of historical justice, it should be noted that Fujifilm does not belong to the championship in entering the market with unusual for the parameters of the digital era – a non-replaceable lens with a fixed focal length and a large matrix. Perhaps the palm formally belongs Sigma DP1, announced back in 2006, however, it was more beautiful toy (4 apertures, the lack of a viewfinder, specific control).

The first serious bid for success was Leica X1 2009. The only significant disadvantage in terms of equipment – the lack of a viewfinder. The price tag of $ 2,000, even amid the global crisis did not seem challenging, the brand has positioned itself as a premium and do not hesitate to ask for $ 6-7 thousand. For rangefinder devices.

Fujifilm has become one of the sensations of Photokina 2010 X100 camera. This is a wonderful device, it is very easy to use, with a minimum of childhood diseases. At the time of it surpasses competitors in an equipment (the famous hybrid viewfinder, full manual exposure control with excellent implementation) and gave them a head start in price.

The camera was so successful that it continues to be produced until now, however, already in the third edition.

Design, ergonomics – Fujifilm X100T

Although this maxim and became a template, but worth repeating: Fujifilm X100 yield significant impact on the industry in terms of design aids. Extreme retro – if implemented correctly – can become a trend.

External changes compared to the previous models virtually none.

Drive right job exposure, exposure compensation, aperture in place. In the center of the Shutter button – threaded socket for mechanical.

Letter about the other lens. The shape of the buttons on the rear panel has become round, it looks fresh. A careful comparison revealed facts movement keys (and their reassignment). Disappeared scroll wheel around the five-way joystick.

I had the experience of shooting all the previous models. The layout of the buttons Fujifilm H100T – the best.

First, the menu button drive modes (Drive) was under the thumb, and now the main manipulation can be done with one hand.

Secondly, the functionality of seven (!) Buttons reassigned through the menu and very flexible – from, such as white balance, to the exotic such as face recognition, only about three dozen. To be honest, I do not remember so much … The company, which will offer the first mini-display to show the current function of each function key (for example, based on e-paper) widely respected. As the number of assignable buttons and hit five-way joystick.

Q-menu can also remap: 16 positions – three dozen functions.

If someone is a projection on the front panel seems a little (I’m with them, would agree), then Fujifilm has pad-holder MHG-X100. It captures and bottom panel is screwed to the tripod, leaving access to the battery compartment and memory card. In the hands, I have not kept, but judging by the pictures, as a bonus buyer receives offset tripod socket closer to the optical axis of the lens and the center of mass of the camera.

The only significant complaint about the design and ease of shooting – screen on the rear panel. At this angle of lens custom camera angles can a good way to build interesting frame.

Yes, compared to the size of the X100s screen diagonal increased slightly but limit the growth of the vertical size has already been reached.

There is also entirely black version. An amateur. Personally, I prefer it a classic, two-tone body.

Functionality – Fujifilm X100T

In order not to reinvent the scale of significant improvement compared with the previous model will try to arrange them in order of the shooting process. First we see a future frame (viewfinder), then projects the image on the lens matrix, then there are processes determine the exposure / focus is achieved, then in the case enters the matrix and the processor, the result is stored on a memory card and displayed on the rear screen.

Hybrid Viewfinder, a real jewel of the series X100, just got better.

In the optical mode, the bottom right corner, which is useless when cropping (where the lens is visible), you can now use. There is projected enlarged portion of the image of the AF point for the visual evaluation of the quality focus.

For easy selection of the display, mode has been redesigned switch located on the front panel. In previous versions, he had only turned in one direction and it cyclically varying optical and electronic modes.

Now position two. Right (looking through the viewfinder) is still cycles through the optical and electronic modes. Left and cyclically-show or hide the zoomed image.

In manual focus, image Digita Split Screen can be displayed in the lower right corner of the optical viewfinder. Feeling almost like working with analog cameras, only the location of the “digital wedges” unusual. In the electronic viewfinder is centered in the frame.

This short video shows how it happens in practice.

Fujinon lens optical scheme has been very successful, and it remains unchanged since the release of the first model series. What improved? Manual aperture control. Previously step change was the whole stage exposure in Fujifilm X100T he reduced to ⅓. Division of the body did not appear, but they are not needed – the value is displayed in the viewfinder or on the rear display and the touch is distinctly felt a click.

In X100T appeared electronic shutter with incredible fast shutter speed 1/32000. Zero is not superfluous, thirty-two thousandths of a second. Because of the implementation of the shoot moving objects is not recommended because of the resulting geometric distortion.

The car was traveling about 40-60 km / h. Walking man distorted by.

Electronic shutter with a fast shutter speeds and built-in neutral density filter lens into three stages allow you to shoot at the bright sun on the beach or in the snow-covered virgin when the diaphragm 2.

X100T divides the matrix with the current flagship of the Fujifilm X-T1. 16 megapixels is more than enough to see 4K TVs provided low-energy crop.

Phase sensors embedded in the matrix, significantly increased the speed of AF compared with the X100, X100s but the owners need not worry.

This is how the automatic focus.

AF points are located throughout the area of the screen and their size regulated. Thanks to reprogram the buttons to change the current point can be in one hand: if you assign one of the five-way joystick buttons, the first press will include the appropriate mode, and the second and subsequent longer will move the point area of the frame.

Metering area now can be linked to the AF point. Useful stuff, if changes in brightness coincide with the storyline.

Speed burst shooting according to the manufacturer is 6 K / s. When using a fast memory card, such as a Kingston 64 GB SDXC UHS-I U3 camera confirms the declared characteristics. After the exhaustion of the buffer (I turned up to 8 frames RAW + JPEG) speed drops to about 1 K / s, but the picture is not interrupted. The buffer is released very quickly, and the camera can continue to use.

Image quality will be discussed in the next section, we will continue to improve transfer. The size of the rear LCD screen has increased due to the shift of proportions by photographic standard cinematic. Diagonal become three inches, the main thing – to increase the density of pixels. Now the image is formed with a tail million items, get a picture of 720×480 pixels.

Quality survey

Raw files from the camera can be downloaded at this link. They are made with zero setting color, sharpness, light and shadows, noise reduction (except for noise reduction at slow shutter speeds).

Share your thoughts. ISO 1600 – absolutely working the sensitivity. 3200 basically working, 6400 – Working with reservations. They are not so much the noise level, this is no problem. Occurs some narrowing of the dynamic range and loss of detail, particularly in the shadows. And it does not matter much whether it was light or not enough.

Since the shooting in RAW is limited to ISO 6400, direct conclusions about the usefulness of the values 12800 and 25600 are difficult. ISO 51200 clearly seems marketing value. From RAW at ISO 3200 and underexposure three stages (conditionally – the equivalent of 25,600), you can get an acceptable image for screen viewing or printing up to 13×18 format. Minus two degrees, the camera can withstand very worthy.

Great detail, especially noticeable in the pictures with bare tree branches against a background of almost spring sky. Profile optical lens distortion correction are in Adobe Camera RAW.

Of particular note feature film stimulating colors. In Fujifilm X100T set expanded: Classic Chrome is not named for licensing and patent reasons, some vintage Kodak Chrome. For the first time in the industry, Adobe has included the relevant sections in the ACR.

Power

The camera is powered by a rechargeable battery NP-95 1800 mAh 3.6V and voltage

One charge enough (according to the manufacturer) to 330 shots under normal usage patterns or up to 700 in the power-saving mode, ie, with disabled screen when using the optical viewfinder. An impressive figure.

The device performed well in February frosts. Radical drop tank is not noticed. After fifty street shots and about the same number of shots made with fill-in flash and studio test series there is still one notch on the display. Total 150 frames, viewing footage was thorough.

And now – the most pleasant. The battery can be charged inside the camera via USB. In other words, any paperback, car charger for smart phone, even the modern TV in the hotel, not to mention the laptop will be able to replenish power. In this vast ointment is a fly in the ointment – while charging the camera should be turned off.

Wireless function

According to the latest fashion, the camera is equipped with a Wi-Fi-module. He decides to three useful tasks – provides remote control shooting and shooting itself takes footage from the camera to your smartphone / tablet for later viewing / mailing / placement in social networks and the like, and transmits the camera to save geodata in pictures.

On the mobile device, you can change the basic parameters of the shooting. I can not say that the realization of the ideal, to the logic of the ligament camera / application to get used.

In summary – Fujifilm X100T

On the Ukrainian market at the device virtually no competitors. Sony RX1R? Yes, full frame, yes Lens Carl Zeiss.

I liked the camera Fujifilm X100T. Yes, it is expensive costs, it’s a serious genre and technical limitations associated with the focal length of the lens and its non-replaceable. But believe me, the pleasure you get from both the process and the outcome. I must admit that 35 mm – not my focus. Here are 28 and 50 closer to me, but Fujifilm offers a proprietary optical attachment, giving the equivalent of these focal lengths.

Liked:

High-quality images in a wide range of sensitivity

+ Convenient to realize full manual control

+ Innovative viewfinder

Did not like:

– Comes with no hood

– Very expensive adapter for filters

– Video Quality

Source: Fujifilm

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Will stay on Olympus photo market after the great fall in sales “tsifromylnits”? All hope for a mirrorless interchangeable lens apparatus (although from the mirror technology, the company has not officially abandoned). Olympus does not update the range every six months as its competitors. Issue new products technologically justified and not dictated by the marketing department. On one of those “reasonably updated” cameras today we take a closer look.

In a series of Pen Olympus now offers three lines. Most small and simple devices called Pen Mini and have the letter M in the title. In the middle is the Pen Lite, the camera with the letter L balance between simplicity and enhanced functionality. Vertex per line Pen with the letter P, which presents devices with professional and amateur stuffing interface. E-P5 – one of them.

Design

External appearance of the Pen line inspired by the film model 1963 Olympus-Pen F. By the way, it was not a full-frame device (yes, in the last century there were also models with a frame less than 24×36 mm, shoot at the 35th film), and half-frame – size images on film was the standard 18×24 mm (in the “portrait” orientation). According to some reports, the system then Olympus-Pen was the smallest in the world of SLR cameras with interchangeable lenses. On one of the ads even depicted male shoes, which was placed in the unit itself has a couple of lenses.

Each succeeding each other models Pen digital era a little different from the previous one, without losing the retro charm. Judge which version is closer to the original meaningless as a minimum, because the film had an optical viewfinder Pen (this is another story, instead of the dominant pentaprism it used a combination of Porro), and assume the current sight on the screen or on the rear panel, or by Plugs into the accessory port external viewfinder.

If you want to see the location and estimate the size of government, see video overview prepared by the project Hotline Video.

Changes compared with the previous model (Olympus Pen E-P3) and a lot and a little at a time.

The first thing that catches your eye – the rear screen has gained a degree of freedom (albeit limited, but it is a significant step toward increasing the convenience of shooting unusual angles).

Wheel for changing settings are now located on the front and rear panels – just below the thumb and index finger – in conjunction with the hardware switch set their functions the phone got almost professional management system. Slight offset five-way joystick (one of the wheels used to be located around it) down and left also increased usability – thumb does not need to bend in an unnatural position.

Powering now produced a lever with two fixed positions, and this is good because we see immediately turn off the camera or simply “fell asleep.”

The body is made of aluminum alloy, a number of controls – metal. Quality materials and workmanship meet the requirements to product-preimum klasaa.

Functionality

Owners OM-D EM5 upset and save money for a new model OM-D: Olympus Pen E-P5 not just absorbed all the best developers to come up with the ex-leader, but also received a number of features not available in EM5.

Goodies finally leave, as long as we consider some improvements.

Exposure 1/8000 is still regarded as the prerogative of professional cameras. Need it in at least two cases – when shooting with large apertures in bright light (yes, neutral density filter helps, but can degrade sharpness and lower contrast due to reflections) and when you want to capture very rapid processes (in most cases it is impossible to imitate.) At Pen E-P5 such exposure is.

In contrast – a couple of examples of unsuccessful implementation of very interesting features.

Olympus engineers have added the ability to shoot time-lapse-videos (in the sense of not just do a set of frames at a specified interval, but also turn them into a video.) But the implementation can not even discuss – limit of 99 frames reduces the usefulness of innovations to zero.

Appeared wireless interface Wi-Fi. Itself – great. Very pleased with the implementation of the connection based on the QR-codes and the ability to create two profiles – public (for “foreign” smartphones, which in the presence of adequate free utility you can download only the camera footage material) and private, suggesting greater interaction with the machine, including remote management and geotagging.

However, implementation of the remote control eliminates virtually all the advantages of wireless access, because shooting can only be performed in automatic mode. Once the alliance partner Olympus Micro 4/3 – company Panasonic – made the program through which change almost all shooting parameters to market such flawed decision, at least ashamed.

Olympus E-P5 first in a series Pen received intracameral 5-axis optical image stabilization with automatic recognition of the pan. It really is an important achievement, since this system – one of the best on the market.

Engineers finally took into account the fact that Panasonic produces lenses with built-in optical stabilizer, and E-P5 menu item appeared, allowing you to select which of the systems use – their own, in-chamber, or “objective”.

Screen on the rear panel has a “photographic” proportions 3:2, it is powered by LCD technology (OM-D EM-5 – OLED) for reasons of priority color quality, increased to one million the number of pixels.

Not without a spoon of tar – when tilted down part of the screen casing extends above the bottom edge of the casing. You probably will not notice it. Until then, unless you need to install the camera on a tripod. One way out – to look for the puck in the bins a couple of millimeters thick, and enclose it between the body and the tripod platform – the important thing is to have enough length to secure the screws.

Built-in flash (also envy owners OM-D EM-5) is designed poorly. It is completely hidden in the body, but the folding mechanism does not allow to reject the lamp unit upward. In addition button on the rear panel is too soft and often flash pops from being accidentally pressed, which can have dire consequences when carrying the bag.

Video mode Pen E-P5 beautiful specifications and menus, but the results are not encouraging. As an interesting note takeaway ideas on hot area of ​​the touch screen incorporating filters – it allows you to add, for example, not to the entire Video Echo roller, but only to his particular story part.

Now about the promised goodies. The first relates to the manual focus. In the Olympus Pen E-P5 there is an increase (up to 14x) and lights contrasting edges. All in all – there is nothing revolutionary. However, their combination allows very accurate the sharpness (eg for macro).

Lights contrasting edges of objects

The combination of magnification and illumination contrast edges of objects

But that’s not all. Intrachamber stabilization system can work not only a snapshot, but at the moment the focus, it will be appreciated by owners of telephoto lenses.

Unfortunately, the movie mode lights not working edges. There is one more wish: a choice of two colors of illumination edges (black and white), add one or two more (yellow and red, for example) is easy firmware upgrade.

It should be noted that the autofocus speed and accuracy – one of the best in the industry, especially when you consider the convenience of specifying an arbitrary point. It can be chosen by an enlarged fragment of the image to 14x.

Second goodies – control system parameters. As already noted, in the Olympus Pen E-P5 two wheels, their location is very convenient. However, the “trick” – a hardware switch on the rear panel, instantly reassigns both ring and button at the switch.

Sounds complicated. But if you get used to, it is very convenient. Basic settings can be changed without any additional travel menu (which in itself is very comfortable at Olympus). For example, in position 1 the wheel set shutter speed and aperture, and in position 2 – sensitivity and the white balance.

In normal mode button enables video recording, but the menu is bound to it is another function.

Just four options, the first two actually overlap each other (the difference – on which wheel is assigned to ISO and white balance), and the third involves remapping button video recording, and the fourth – the focus mode (ring while working offline).

Quality frames

There are a few shots taken on the street – one in the apartment with light saving bulbs and a standard test set.

First, the white balance when shooting in JPEG. En plein air – no complaints, everything honestly. Indoors, under incandescent lighting – too honest. Automation makes frames unnaturally warm – a person perceives a more neutral image. Save preset position or capture a neutral point of the sample.

JPEG at default settings pleases clarity of details and correct saturation, even in the red.

How small 16-megapixel sensor allows you to raise the sensitivity? If we remain within JPEG, ISO 6400 is completely operational value: look at the images on a scale of 25%. Yes, already have a claim to the dynamic range, can be seen zamylennye. But the results are impressive.

In poor lighting conditions the difference between ISO 200 and 6400 much more noticeable, but the footage is still usable.

There are cases where the frame to make the problem better than not doing any. ISO 12800 and 25600 for JPEG contraindicated, even for the Web is better not to apply. But from RAW obtained good results if the colors quite bad enough to take a picture to grayscale.

The overall quality of the shooting should be called great. Yes, the camera is not designed for specific types of pictures (eg, sports reporting, where the AF tracking is needed), but in the hands of an experienced lover is a great tool for the implementation of most of his creative ideas.

During the test operation of the camera proved to be a good side. It starts quickly, responds promptly to switch (including touch screen). Rate – if you do not need autofocus – 9 c / a in RAW, it is especially useful when shooting HDR (the minimum number of “ghosts”).

According to the manufacturer, the autonomy of up to 330 frames standards CIPA. Especially this study characteristics were not made, but a normal shooting day battery stand. External battery charger, so that if necessary you can buy an extra battery and recharged as needed.

The only serious complaint – the price (especially if you want to purchase an external electronic viewfinder).

Liked

+ Quality Pictures
+ Lots of features and components of the OM-D EM5
+ Almost a professional set of features
+ Innovative control system

Dislike

– Price
– Implementation of Wi-Fi-functions
– Video Quality

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