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Official certification by ARRI is surprising indeed!
If anything can cause an explosion in seeing Panasonic mirrorless on film sets I work on, it would be THIS! 
Would instantly make the GH7 the #1 choice for crash cam / B Cam / etc, anything that needs very awkward mounting, such as mounting a camera for a shower scene or riding a motorbike or a snorricam. 
 

GH7 definitely look like the best M43 ever
I m tempted to dump the Sony and back to Pana again.
 

super 16 mm / 1 inch dci 4k prores raw hq 60 p. this is really something. finally, a 4k raw s16 cam is available to the general public. 
I am itching to pull the trigger now. either gh7 or om 1 mark ii. probably gh7 first, then wait for om1 mk iii. 
 

Thats quite the surprise.
The handheld Alexa dream finally realised ?
I wonder if this is going to turn up on the S line cameras as well?
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/panasonic-licenses-arri-logc3-from-arri-for-the-lumix-gh7-302165254.html

The greatest thing about the GH7 - Arri logC. But as a paid upgrade.

The Pyxis is almost literally the exact guts of another BlackMagic camera that was released more than a year ago, but moved into a cube and people are peeing their pants in excitement for it.  The FX3 is an A7S3 in a different body.  The R5C is the R5 in a different body.  The industry is full of successful cameras that are basically "cheaper camera, but cinema body."  Not sure why Panasonic should be held to a different standard.

Wasn't it Apple who was designing phones on a tic-toc rythem? Panasonic is clearly doing the same. GH5 (tic), GH5ii (toc), GH6 (tic), GH7(toc)- it makes sense. The "tic" is usually a big jump over the previous generation and the "toc" is the one you wish the "tic" was after using it for awhile. The GH6 had quite a few bugs (banding with backlight, slow startups, etc.). Still, it is a great camera Panasonic should be proud of, but I think the GH7 is the one people wanted from the GH6.

Would you prefer they spent a lot of time and money on a new body design and designing a new sensor, delaying the camera and having to charge a lot more money for it?
Personally I think they've done exactly what they should have done - merge the best parts of the GH6 with the best parts of the G9 ii, to create what's hopefully going to be the best pro-video orientated micro43 hybrid camera ever.

Panasonic proved to have the best body and thermal design in the market. 
Just remember that Gh4 (unlimited 4K had the same GH3 body (1080p).
And we are still getting Sony cameras that heats like an oven...
Gh7 appears to have exactly the same GH6 body that is good to me.
 

Exactly. And then they add 32bit float internal audio... even with the added cost, it's a game changer for the one man band filmmaker.
That said, I'm probably not a customer. I've use the GH5, had the GH6 briefly and briefly had access to an S5iiX and I'm just not a Panasonic guy. 

You're saying it like it's a bad thing, but people really like the G9 II.  Putting its guts in a pro body, enabling internal raw, and charging only $300 more for it (judging by leaks) sounds pretty great to me.

You gotta give it to Panasonic though, they took an entire market of loyal m4/3 users and halted any and all discussions about the full frame "myth" and made them loyal full frame shooters. And then when you think m4/3 is all but dead and buried... they flip the script and instead of releasing an S2H... they release the apex of m4/3 cameras.
I guess they learned from their mistake of sitting on the GH6 release for so long. Release m4/3 first and then full frame a year later...
Us dopes will buy both. 

That is the GU special edition...

I only had to do the one room but yes - especially as I don't have stuff like speed rail etc and it was rather windy.
In fact, I was going to move on to blackout the back ground floor for the next sequence but by then it was just too windy so I had to black out inside and bounce my lights (shooting day for night) inside rather than having them outside.

I didn't see full frame on the rumored specs???

https://www.43rumors.com/leaked-first-panasonic-lumix-gh7-images/
Someone say it's the same GH6 body.
It could be my lucky year 🙂
 

Honestly I think sticking with the Panasonic Lumix S 50mm f/1.8 Lens as the "freebie / promotional lens" would have done far less harm to the S9 launch, than that f8 manual focus lens! Even though the 50mm is quite big, at least it wouldn't have generated so much negativity  being bundled with the S9. 
(although yeah, I think ideally Panasonic should develop a 45mm f2/8 lens that's very compact, or something like that)
What was wrong with the GH4?? It was revolutionary for its time!
 

Rumors now say the GH7 pricing is $2200
That's good news (was worried it might have been on the higher side of the two thousands, not low two thousands), and with how high inflation has been lately, I don't think we could have realistically have hoped for much better. 
 
ohhhh... that's an ingenious loophole! 
Kill two birds with one stone. 
The YAGH was innovative for its time, nobody else had tried this, but I can't see them ever repeating in 2024 the now obvious mistakes of it:
1) it needed external power
2) was too big (having four SDI outputs for instance is great, but a bit overkill? 1x full size HDMI + 2x SDI independent outputs is enough for 97%+ of people) 
 

Yes, Panasonic's lens options are a weakness. The primes they have are excellent and geared towards video shooters in that they are roughly the same size and weight, have the same filter size, have minimal focus breathing, etc. but they are bigger than their competitors. They are more expensive than Canon's f1.8 primes, which are under $300 and much smaller, but the build quality isn't nearly as good as the Panasonic lenses. Sony has a lot of options, with their sub $600 primes being pretty small but they're also F1.8, f2.5, and f2.8. 
Panasonic should really look into doing budget primes along the lines of what they have for m43 (14mm f2.5, 20mm f1.7, 25mm f1.7, 30mm f1/7, 42.5mm f1.7) A bunch of compact f2.5 or F2/8 lenses for under $300 would be appealing.

Dead to rights with me, too.

Samyang have released it in L Mount this morning.
Thats put a cat amongst my pigeons at least.

I used to have the 10-25 f1.7 and it was probably the perfect lens for me. It really was great. The pairing with the 25-50 would be great.

The Single Most important thing, "has Gerald been invited or Not?"
 
On a more serious note, I feel Panasonic can squeeze out another 1/2 of dynamic range (from the G9ii) by tweaking the VLog, improving heat management and improving the Sensor coating further. That's 11.8 (G9ii) + 0.5 stops. That Full Frame territory. A few flavours of ProRes, BRAW and RAW wouldn't be too bad. They could shrink that horrible YAGH attachment that they made for the GH4, to about 1/3rd it's size, and have external multiple flavour RAW in the recorder.