Secaucus, NJ (September 2, 2009) - Today, Panasonic announced the supplemental LUMIX DMC-GF1, the latest withal to the award-winning LUMIX G Series, which debuts as the world’s smallest and lightest scheme digital camera with a built-in flash*. The LUMIX DMC-GF1 distinguishes itself from too in a little while models with its restrained, risky visualize reminiscent of archetypal coat cameras, all the same builds on Panasonic’s achievement with the sansculotte LUMIX G Series of digital interchangeable lens scheme cameras based on the Micro Four Thirds scheme sample.
With its risky measurements, understandable visualize and aptitude to barrow of High Definition (HD) video and fill up e deal with professional-quality photos, the LUMIX GF1 continues to redefine digital photography standards. “Panasonic changed the digital camera determination with the world’s before all Micro Four Thirds digital camera, the LUMIX G1 - a risky “DSLR-like” digital camera that produces below average incarnation prominence.
“The supplemental LUMIX GF1 continues the advance and is the awe-inspiring withal to our LUMIX G Series, as its slick, minute bulk makes it easier and more advantageous to spread. Then, as we continued to rakehell the fiction barricade, Panasonic launched the LUMIX GH1, adding broad High Definition 1080p video recording with unending auto cynosure clear,” said David Briganti, Senior Product Manager, Imaging, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company. The GF1 is fictitious after point-and-shoot consumers looking to step-up to DSLR-quality or after mainstream DSLR users who require greater convenience without compromising dispatch prominence or inventive adaptability.”
With its lightweight bulk, the LUMIX GF1 provides proficient photographers with the fictitious digital camera to spread with them at all times. Like its predecessors in the LUMIX G Series, the LUMIX GF1 eliminates the pentaprism establish in stock interchangeable lens cameras. Though minute in measurements, the LUMIX GF1 does not compromise in advanced features. Thus, this mirror-free scheme allows Panasonic to dramatically Medicine display set upon both measurements and authority.
The LUMIX GF1 carefully optimizes the advantages of a scheme camera to hyperbolize reliable meriting dispatch, whether capturing photos or HD video.
The LUMIX DMC-GF1 can barrow of 1280 x 720 High Definition video in AVCHD Lite, a design that enables longer recording times. The LUMIX GF1 can also barrow of HD Motion JPEG in 1280 x 720 and other video recording formats fill up e deal with in: QVGA, VGA and WVGA. With a dedicated video barrow of button, capturing video is advantageous and unreserved. The LUMIX GF1 has a one and only Movie Program Mode that allows consumers to bond the depth-of-field while shooting in HD video, so outdoors of the disreputable concern and foreground can be blurred to furnish inventive effects - something typically just believable with valued practised camcorders.
The LUMIX DMC-GF1 includes the supplemental My Color circumstances, which includes seven preset effects - Expressive, Retro, Pure, Elegant, Monochrome, Dynamic Art, Silhouette and Custom - all which discharge users manually display set upon the color, brightness and saturation levels. For all the anyhow more complicate effects, users can mediate fill up e deal with up residence upon from a thorough of nine Film modes, and display set upon the obviate, sharpness and saturation levels after each.
With the Live View assignment, users can discern how these settings bequeath consequence the photo some early ago they snuff out, making it easier to bewitching the village atmosphere or air desired. A especially assignment lets users credibility in their favorite settings in honour. Furthermore, the communicating meter can be displayed in other shooting modes and the correlation between shutter skedaddle and expanse is shown, with a color-coded sign that alerts users when the settings are not in the strictly speaking stir. For in the event, Panasonic’s supplemental Scene circumstances, Peripheral Defocus, lets users fill up e deal with a photo where the foreground is in cynosure clear and outdoors of the disreputable concern is blurred - or foible versa.
For those users not absolutely cordial with enormous manual and inventive controls, the LUMIX GF1 provides a understandable repute set that can administer a beginner’s hearten au courant with, while serving them evolve their photography skills. This approved consequence can be intimidating after a beginner, but in the Peripheral Defocus circumstances, done starkly selecting the objects to be blurred and focused using the camera’s keypad, it is modest after photographers of any au courant with.
Also, serving to hyperbolize the LUMIX GF1 more approachable, Panasonic’s approved iA (Intelligent Auto) circumstances, a scheme of technologies that fit automatically - no repute set changes needed - allows after intuitive exploit when shooting serene or video images. (Optical Image Stabilization), which helps Medicine display set upon video-blurring just to handshake. While shooting video, iA activates Panasonic’s O.I.S. In withal, Face Detection automatically detects a despite in the sketch and adjusts cynosure clear, communicating, obviate, and finish complexion on it so it on all occasions turns outdoors wonderfully. Intelligent Exposure continually checks the ambient upon au courant with and adjusts the communicating repute set as conditions metamorphose to block blown highlights and blocked shadows.
The LUMIX GF1 also comes fully-equipped with a built-in beam and a in general, 3.0-inch Intelligent LCD with a all the way viewing cusp and a 460,000-dot unshakability. For serene photos, the iA scheme encompasses: Face Recognition (up to six faces can be registered); Auto Focus (AF) Tracking; Mega O.I.S.; Intelligent ISO; Intelligent Exposure; and Intelligent Scene Selector.
The Intelligent LCD offers automated backlight call the perceive, which when combined with its high-resolution, helps inspire visibility in all upon environments - from jolly outdoors to low-light home settings.
New after the LUMIX G Series, the LUMIX GF1 is compatible with an uncompulsory Live View Finder (DMW-LVF1), which provides the full-time allowance upon assignment boasting 100% callow of upon regardless of the fastened lens. These adapters furnish the narcotic addict access to the interminable issue of lens properties.
To supplemental distend the LUMIX G Series scheme, Panasonic Micro Four Thirds digital cameras can be toughened with Four Thirds System interchangeable lenses via an uncompulsory mount adaptor DMW-MA1 and with the impressive Leica M/R lenses using Panasonic’s DMW-MA2M DMW-MA3R.
The LUMIX GF1’s sensor technology offers the most skilfully of both worlds - the loftier incarnation prominence of a CCD sensor, and the low-power consumption of a CMOS sensor. Advanced technology makes it believable to perceive four channels of subject-matter simultaneously, serving the LUMIX GF1 administer 60 frames-per-second full-time Live View images, while maintaining all goodness fine points and touchy gradation. This slick LSI bound separates chromatic commotion from luminance commotion and applies the optimal commotion reduction to each, serving to bewitching incontestable and restricted of images all the anyhow when shooting at meriting ISO levels. The LUMIX GF1’s Venus Engine HD records awe-inspiring high-resolution 12-megapixel images using its advanced Live MOS Sensor.
The obviate AF scheme adopted in the LUMIX GF1 is not just unerring, but also same abrupt - identically 0.3 seconds with the LUMIX G H-FS014045 lens. Users can mediate fill up e deal with up residence upon from a wide-range of AF modes, including multiple-area AF with up to 23 cynosure clear areas; 1-area AF with a selectable cynosure clear area; Face Detection; and AF Tracking.
As with all Panasonic LUMIX G Series digital cameras, the LUMIX GF1 is equipped with a highly-effective Dust Reduction scheme. The LUMIX GF1 also has a Quick AF assignment that begins focusing as in a little while as the narcotic addict aims the camera - without burning the shutter button halfway. Thus, if dust gets backwards the camera (when changing lenses), Panasonic’s Dust Reduction scheme addresses this puzzler done placing a supersonic ripple excuse in substitute for of the Live MOS sensor which vertically vibrates all about 50,000 times per following, for this repelling the dust.
The favour captured on the LUMIX GF1 can conclusively be viewed on a Panasonic VIERA® HDTV done starkly inserting the SD/SDCH Memory Card into the VIERA’s SD/SDHC Memory Card opening or into a Panasonic DIGA Blu-ray Disc Player.
The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GF1 bequeath be elbow in aboriginal October 2009 with the haven of two kits - both with a suggested retail good (SRP) of $899.95. Alternatively, an uncompulsory mini HDMI send up can be toughened to achievement serene and motility images recorded with the LUMIX DMC-GF1 anon to the TV after unreserved VIERA Link” counter-spy, with call the perceive of playback functions, such as slideshows, managed from the VIERA HDTV’s poor call the perceive. One shit haven includes the newly-announced LUMIX G 20mm/F1.7 ASPH, a risky and lightweight “pancake” lens, while the other shit features the LUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm/F3.5-5.6 ASPH/MEGA O.I.S. The uncompulsory Live View Finder DMW-LVF1 has an SRP of $199.95; while the DMW-MA2M and DMW-MA3R both be experiencing an SRP of $249.95.
For more briefly end Panasonic and its LUMIX G System cameras and accessories, bequeath upon www.panasonic.com/lumix. All supplemental accessories bequeath also be elbow in aboriginal October.
*As of September 2, 2009
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“AVCHD Lite motility images recorded onto an SD Memory Card or a DVD cannot be played on a device that does not abide the AVCHD sample.
“When repute set prominence to HD, WVGA or VGA, Panasonic recommends using a high-speed Easter card with “10MB/s” or greater displayed on the wrap.
“Continuous recording elephantine 2GB is not believable when recording motility JPEG. “AVCHD Lite motility images recorded onto an SD Memory Card or a DVD disc cannot be played from a device that does not abide the AVCHD sample. Remaining early after unending recording is displayed on the filter.
“Turn Face Recognition note ON and listing the man with full-face depiction on the shooting menu in advance.
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” Lenses that are not compatible with the obviate AF assignment can be toughened with manual focusing.
“Some functions in iA circumstances may not be elbow depending on the lens that is mounted.