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A Review by Michael Reichmann
 
The best way to summarize the newPanasonic Lumix GH4  (Mid-April, 2014 release) is to recognise that the camera is designed to appeal equally to two seperate constituencies – still photographers and videographers.
The Back Story
I always enjoy getting my hands on a new camera for review purposes as soon as pre-production versions become available. But I was out of the country most of the winter, and didn't return to Toronto until early April.  I didn't have to wait long though. Final firmware lock on thenew Panasonic GH4was April 11, and by April 17 Panasonic Canada was able to loan me a production GH4 with 1.0 firmware for testing. The timing was excellent, because less than a week later we will be on our way to Vancouver, Hong Kong and mainland China, to go on-press for my two new books. You can read about both of these, and about Michael's new Endowment for Photographers here.

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
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