Panasonic confirms that they have no imminent plan to offer 8K on their cameras

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At the Photo & Imaging 2023 event in China Panasonic managers said that demand of 8K on digital cameras is very weak and therefore you should not expect 8K to be implemented any time soon. This likely means that the S1H and the GH6 successor will both NOT have 8K recording.

If you remember back in 2017 Panasonic promised to launch an 8K MFT camera by 2020. Well, we might have to wait til the second half od this decade before this might happen 🙁

via CameraBeta

Panasonic says: new entry and very high end L-mount cameras will be coming and the new telephoto zoom will be very compact

CameraBeta has been invited for a talk with Panasonic managers and this is the info they gathered:

  • At present, Panasonic focuses on the mid-range full-frame camera market, but in the next few years, it will supplement entry-level and high-end models
  • Video will continue to focus on 4K, 6K oversampling, 6K and open gate.
  • 8K is not sufficiently popular in the consumer market.
  • A telephoto lens will be available soon. I think it’s a surprising size, so please look forward to it.
  • It has suffered a lot in the last three years, but is still very good.
  • LUMIX G is stable overall. LUMIX S is the best result ever.
  • China is the strongest market.
    ・Rapid recovery of production and sales
    ・Securing production and supply by building factories

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via Asobinet