Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF8 prices and specs
The Lumix DMC-GF8 was released on Mar 2016. For today the cheapest price for the camera is $429.95
The Lumix DMC-GF8 belongs to the category of rangefinder style mirrorless cameras. It means that the Lumix DMC-GF8 is smaller than DSLR cameras but however takes high quality photos and has a variety of taking pictures options.
The camera can take photos at 16 megapixels highest resolution. But for better picture quality the more important thing is a sensor size. This camera has a Four Thirds (17.3 x 13 mm) sensor. The camera with such sensor size is the optimal choice if you want to take photos of a rather good quality but don't want to use heavy DSLR cameras. And if you want to produce photos of the best quality pay attention to Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1R II.
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF8 has max shutter speed of 1/500 sec. It is not very fast shutter speed but anyway the photographer will manage to shoot photos of moving people. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF8 has tilting LCD that will let you to make photos from any odd angle easily. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF8 produces high quality videos in Full HD resolution.
The Lumix DMC-GF8 is an interchangeable and uses Micro Four Thirds lens mount. If the scene needs special shooting conditions, the camera owner can switch lens to a more suitable to get the best quality images.
Also this device has Wi-Fi which means that the photographer can back up images to a cloud service for example. The Lumix DMC-GF8 battery life will be enough to make approximately 230 photos.
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- Mar 2016
- Rangefinder-style mirrorless
- 16 megapixels
- 4592 x 3448
- Four Thirds (17.3 x 13 mm)
- CMOS
- Venus Engine
- 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9
- 4:3 (3232 x 2424, 2272 x 1704), 3:2 (4592 x 3064, 3232 x 2160, 1824 x 1216), 3:2 (4592 x 2584, 3840 x 2160, 1920 x 1080), 1:1 (3424 x 3224, 2416 x 2416, 1712 x 1712)
- 17 megapixels
- Auto, 200-25600 (extends to 100-25600)
- 100
- 5
- Yes (2 slots)
- No
- RAW
- Fine, standard
- 60 sec
- 1/500 sec
- 1/16000 sec
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- 5.60 m (at ISO 200)
- No
- Auto, auto w/redeye reduction, flash on, flash on w/redeye reduction, slow sync, slow sync w/redeye reduction, flash off
- 5.8 fps
- Yes (2 or 10 secs, 3-shot/10 sec)
- Multi
- Center-weighted
- Spot
- ±5 (at 1/3 EV steps)
- ±3 (3, 5, 7 frames at 1/3 EV, 2/3 EV, 1 EV steps)
- Yes (3 shots in blue/amber and magenta/green axes)
- Tilting
- 3″
- 1,040,000
- Yes (with touch AF, shutter, playback, menus)
- TFT LCD
- Yes
- None
- 1920 x 1080 (60p, 60i, 50p, 50i, 30p, 25p, 24p), 1280 x 720 (30p, 25p), 640 x 480 (30p, 25p)
- MPEG-4, AVCHD, H.264
- 24p only available with AVCHD
- Stereo
- Mono
- Contrast Detect (sensor)
- Multi-area
- Center
- Selective single-point
- Tracking
- Single
- Continuous
- Touch
- Face Detection
- Live View
- Yes (2x-4x)
- Yes
- 23
- Micro Four Thirds
- 2×
- 266 g (0.59 lb / 9.38 oz)
- 107 x 65 x 33 mm (4.21 x 2.56 x 1.3″)
- No
- Battery Pack
- Lithium-ion battery & charger
- 230
- SD/SDHC/SDXC card
- USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/sec)
- Yes (micro-HDMI)
- No
- No
- Built-In
- 802.11b/g/n with NFC
- Yes (via smartphone )
- Yes
- None
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