Panasonic working on 8K!

It's hard to imagine, 2020 is just almost 5 years away. Doesn't seems like 6K is popular. The future is bright!

http://www.43rumors.com/panasonic-8k-with-33mp-stills-is-the-future/

Does that mean Panasonic is working on bigger sensor?

Would much rather have the 4K at 60 and 120 fps. The data sizes for 6 and 8k are getting ridiculous and the cameras that currently shoot it, none record internally.

“Panasonic announced plans for future 4K and 8K video and photo features, including 4K at 60fps and 120fps, as well as the ability to take 33 megapixel still images from 8K video footage. They say they are planning to have this technology ready for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games. No further information was given at the time.“

The next easy to accomplish thing that's something better than the GH4 is higher framerate. So 4K 60fps should be in the GH5 since they already doing that in their camcorder.

Double frame rate clips have been always difficult to play as they tend to overload the video card buffer even at HD definition. With 4K first generation cars you can play easily 1080@60p however 4K@60p drops frames. There is also an issue with HDMI as 1.4 doesn't support it. I believe the power and bandwidth of graphic cards will be the real problem and not really HDMI

This is where H.265 comes in. When Samsung release the NX1, the consensus is the consumers are not ready yet. Moving into 2016, processor on camera will improve slightly so higher frame rate compression shouldn't be a problem. If the bottleneck is the memory card, H.265 will solve it. My point is, at least Panasonic is doing something to support the technology revolution!

This is where H.265 comes in. When Samsung release the NX1, the consensus is the consumers are not ready yet. Moving into 2016, processor on camera will improve slightly so higher frame rate compression shouldn't be a problem. If the bottleneck is the memory card, H.265 will solve it. My point is, at least Panasonic is doing something to support the technology revolution!

Bandwidth depends on the uncompressed video signal

4K@8 bit per pixel and 30 fps requires 1920 MB/s at 60 fps 3840 MB/s

Generally breaking through the 2000 MB/s barrier requires a decent GPU with good amount of onboard memory and cache

Having h265 will make smaller files that will be playable with hardware accelerated cards but you still need the raw bandwidth to issue the uncompressed video

We shall see!!!