Above: When the Panasonic GH5 was launched in 2017, we obtained all of the GH siblings collectively for a household reunion.
It is exhausting to imagine Panasonic’s video-centric GH digital camera collection is 13 years outdated. For these of us who used or coated the collection from the beginning, it is also a stark reminder that we’re a bit older than we was once. Oh, how time flies!
Luckily, the GH collection has aged effectively, evolving from a scrappy upstart video digital camera right into a mature product with among the most superior video options in the marketplace, brief of a professional cinema digital camera. Mockingly, it might have been broadly obtainable firmware hacks for the GH2 that basically propelled the collection ahead available in the market. Panasonic did not precisely condone these hacks, however it certainly acknowledged how a lot enthusiasm the customized firmware generated for a extra succesful GH digital camera. The collection shortly turned a darling of video lovers, spawning a big ecosystem of instruments and equipment that proceed to at the present time.
Personally, the GH collection has at all times been near my coronary heart as its historical past considerably parallels my very own evolution as a videographer and filmmaker. Previous to the GH1, I had been utilizing the very succesful Panasonic DVX100 digital camera for video work, and regardless of the very fact the GH1 was a bit tough across the edges I jumped onboard immediately on account of its measurement, capabilities and interchangeable lenses. Be a part of us as we leap into the wayback machine to look again at this iconic collection of cameras.
– Dale Baskin