Panasonic has officially launched the Lumix GX1-m4/3-ilc announced. The camera is equipped with an image sensor with 16 megapixels, and has a built-in flash and a distinctive grip. The Lumix GX1 is from december available.
Panasonic when the GX1 use the same Live MOS image sensor with 16 megapixels which is also in the Lumix G3 is found and the maximum sensitivity that can be fired is iso 12,800. The original GF1 had a maximum iso sensitivity of iso 3200 while the G3 to iso 6400. The sensor is on the front with an anti-dust system on the basis of a supersonic wave-filter.
The higher sensitivity is, according to the company, partly due to the used Venus Engine with three cpus. That would be better able to color – and luminantieruis to separate, leading to sharper photos. Also features the Venus Engine a ruisreductieselectie where this focus is on the transitions in an image, and textures in smoother parts will be left alone.
The combination of image sensor and image processor makes it possible for 4.2 frames per second with a mechanical shutter, while with the reduced resolution and the use of an electronic shutter 20 frames per second are possible. The GX1 can in the most favourable case within 0,09 s focusing, and the camera has a new af mode on: AF Flexible, which after the half-press of the shutter button to continuously focus if the subject is in frame. The camera can have 1080/50i video with avchd recording with a sensoroutput 1080/25p.
The new compact system camera, seems to be what the basic design involves a lot of on the Lumix GF1, but has a deeper grip on the front. This is cast of resin and elastomer for a firm grip on the camera. The GX1 has a large number of controls, including a dedicated function key, and has two customstanden on the mode dial for a total of four personal camera settings.
Like earlier models, such as the Lumix GF2, GF3, G2 and G3, the GX1 includes a 3″touch screen with 460.000 subpixels. This makes it possible to in and out to zoom in combination with the Lumix G X Vario 14-42mm lens. The GX1 is also equipped with stereo microphones.
In addition to the GX1 was also a new electronic external viewfinder announced. The DMV-LVF2 has 1.440.000 subpixels, just as much as the VF-2-setup evf from Olympus, and significantly more than the current setup evf from Panasonic, with a resolution of 220,000 subpixels.
The GX1 is from december available, but a Dutch the suggested retail price is not yet known. In the United States, the camera 700 dollar cost for just the body, $ 800 including 14-42mm-kit lens and $ 1000 with the 14-42mm X lens.
