Panasonic’s GH5 shoots 4k video at 60fps, coming early 2017

Panasonic showed its Lumix DMC-GH5 during the Photokina photography fair in Cologne and announced some details about the system camera. The GH5 is capable of shooting 4k video at 60fps and there is a 6k Photo mode.

The upcoming camera from Panasonic shoots 4k video at 60fps/50fps and can also record 4k images with 4:2:2 subsampling and a color depth of 10 bits. The DMC-GH5 is the successor to the GH4, the first system camera from Panasonic that could record 4k video at 30fps/25fps.

Panasonic gave a glimpse of the camera at the Photokina trade show currently taking place in Cologne. The manufacturer revealed that the camera is trading the GH4’s 4K Photo function for a 6K variant: 8-megapixel photos can be extracted from 4k/60fps video clips; in burst mode, this applies to 18-megapixel photos.

The camera is barely visible in the product image of Panasonic itself, but DPReview was able to take better pictures of the system camera on the exhibition floor, where the GH5 could be admired behind glass. A price has not yet been announced and the release date is sometime in the first half of 2017.