(FT5) Uematsu (Panasonic) says: There will be no GH3 this year (not a surprise).

Ok, that’s certainly not a surprise but at least it is official. Techaradar (Click here) talked with Mr. Uematsu from Panasonic and confirmed that “there will not be an upgrade to the GH2 by the end of the year“. And he also said that “Photokina 2012 would be very important for Panasonic“. All I know from my sources is that the GH3 will support AVCHD 2.0 with 1080/50p(60p) recording at 28mbit/s. EVF will be MUCH improved and the sensor will very likely have global shutter (like the [shoplink 25766]Nikon J1[/shoplink] and [shoplink 2567]V1[/shoplink] cameras).

The only camera we will see long before Photokina will be probably the GF PRO camera (named GF7, or GX1) which could be a sort of Panasonic L1 in Micro Four Thirds version([shoplink 20740 ebay]Click here to see that cam on eBay)[/shoplink]. The GF PRO will be announced in December/early January right before the CES event in Las Vegas.

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