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Rumors say that G7 is to be announced, and that it will include 4K video and DFD focusing.
http://www.43rumors.com/and-now-its-panasonic-turn-g7-coming-early-next-week-gx8-later/

Niels

And now it has been announced: http://www.dpreview.com/articles/0437127800/hands-on-with-the-panasonic-lumix-dmc-g7

Niels

DpReview has the full review out. There are things in there that I disagree with, but this quote is really impressive

On top of this, the G7 offers some of the best tracking AF we've seen on any camera (DSLR or mirrorless) in this class. The full capability of this system is only available when you use Panasonic's own lenses, which puts more limits on your choices than necessary, but between this and the 4K Photo mode, it means the G7 offers a lot of support to help you grab the shot you want.

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Especially given that DpReview feels the class includes

This puts it up against serious competition from the likes of Canon's EOS 750D/Rebel T6i, Nikon's D5500, Sony's a6000, the Fujifilm X-T10 and Olympus E-M10.

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so including mirrored SLRs

Link: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonic-lumix-dmc-g7/8

Niels

GX8 is out too.
http://goo.gl/Fk7A9t

Gx8

gh1 said:

GX8 is out too.
http://goo.gl/Fk7A9t

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Just read a bit of the that review. The camera looks great but one downside is that the Dual IS isn't compatible with the 100-300mm lens, which is ridiculous! Surely you most need good image stabilisation when using the longest lens.

Here's the quote:

"Probably the second most significant feature change in the GX8 is the addition of Dual IS. Building on the GX7's in-body image stabilization, the GX8 has the ability to combine the effects of its built-in stabilization with those of the lenses you mount to it. This increases the amount of displacement that the system can compensate for. Panasonic says it's particularly successful at stabilizing movement when shooting long telephoto lenses, where a small amount of camera movement can cause a large displacement of the image.

The system takes information from both the camera and lens's sensors and uses the camera's four-axis stabilization (vertical translation, horizontal translation, rotation around vertical axis and rotation around horizontal axis), in addition to the lens's two-axis rotational correction.

The system requires lens firmware to be updated but has set out a timeframe for providing this firmware for all but three of its lenses* between now and February 2016.

*The original 14-45mm kit zoom, 45-200mm F4-5.6 and 100-300mm F4-5.6 will not be compatible with the system"

Well, we hope that the newly announced 100-400 will be compatible

Niels

njlarsen said:

Well, we hope that the newly announced 100-400 will be compatible

Niels

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lol, indeed. The combination of the new GX8 and new 100-400mm lens looks very appealing at the moment but who knows what will come along in the meantime

Hobbes2 said:

lol, indeed. The combination of the new GX8 and new 100-400mm lens looks very appealing at the moment

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Except that the 100-400mm doesn't exist yet. Given Olympus' indefinte postponement of the release of their 300mm F4, these announcements are so far generating a lot of anticipation among m4/3 bird photographers but nothing else!