(FT2) Panasonic GH2 to be first shutter-less camera
According to the website eosHD “In what is being billed as another sizeable revolution in the camera world, Panasonic is set to unveil a shutter-less DSLR. Billed as a ‘global shutter’ and marketed as HD Progressive, Panasonic will for now reserve this feature only for their high end range of camcorders and the GH2.
Panasonic is set to release the LX4 and G2 in February, but the GH2 will wait until the 2nd half of 2010 according to my source in Asia. Rather than do a yearly update of the GH line, Panasonic want to bring a greater incremental step to the ‘luxury’ line.“,,,”The global shutter also creates the possibility of an entirely silent camera. Goodbye shutter click. On a DSLR a global shutter requires greater power demands and causes the sensor to run hot, but Panasonic were able to develop one because their modern CMOS processing plant can shrink a chip below 35 nanometers, which coupled with the relatively small (in DSLR terms) sensor size of the Micro 4/3rds format allows the chip to run cooler.“
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kurth
January 28, 2010 |did anyone bother actually going to eoshd.com ?? this appears to be the case of the cheshire cat chasing it’s own tail !
misu
January 28, 2010 |well, my g11 has some kind of a shutter, you could say it is the iris closing just before exposing and it still makes some noise, making it useless for indoors sound recording. I guess the iris of a bigger lens would make even more noise so still noting for me with the gh2. except maybe with the option of not using iris at all and exposing wide open, which I find acceptable.
as for the heat, things might be worse, as this means a lot more noise in the images.
AltraOttica » Blog Archive » Goodmorning 01.02.10
February 1, 2010 |[...] del sistema, assieme alla chiusura dello specchio. Dopo aver eliminato quest’ultimo, dunque, Panasonic ha in progetto di eliminare anche l’otturatore, creando dunque una fotocamera completamente silenziosa. Per fare questo, utilizzerà per la [...]
peter
June 17, 2010 |Another question to the GH2: Is there a chance to get JPEG-XR.
The new jpeg is released for one year now.
The GH2 with this feature would have all what I look for.