In a recent interview from China published on Weibo, Panasonic managers claimed that demand for 8K video in digital cameras is weak and therefore they do not have plans to implement 8K in their upcoming cameras. This is interesting because Panasonic was one of the first companies to promote and push 8k video a few […]
Panasonic unveiled a new 35MP organic CMOS Super35 sensor:
Another look into the Panasonic 8K organic sensor:
Some additional information on the Panasonic 8K organic sensor camera prototype:
Four years ago Panasonic promised that they can launch the first 8K camera for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Nikkan reports that now Panasonic thinks their 8k cameras will come in 2022 for the Beijing Olympic Winter Games (Google translated):
Panasonic announced the development of the world’s first 8K organic sensor and 8K camera system. Additional information (see also this related post):
Panasonic Develops Industry’s-First 8K High-Resolution, High-Performance Global Shutter Technology using Organic-Photoconductive-Film CMOS Image Sensor The new technology enables 8K high resolution and high picture quality imaging without motion distortion, even in extremely bright scenes. Osaka Japan, – Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has developed a new technology which realizes 8K high-resolution (36M pixels), 60fps framerate, […]
At the 2018 ISSCC conference Panasonic will present a paper on their new 8K 60fps organic CMOS sensor with global shutter:
Dpreview published their interview with Yosuke Yamane from Panasonic (Division President, Imagine Network Business Division). Several interesting points on the Panasonic LX100 successor, the GH5 and 8K video:
In a recent interview with Focus Numerique Olympus executives revealed that image sensor with 8K video support will be coming to future Micro Four Third cameras:
Panasonic is rumored to announce their new 8k camera this fall (most likely for Photokina). In 8k photo mode each image will be 33.5 MP in size and you will be able to re-focus simply by touching anywhere on the image.
Panasonic will resume the development of sensors capable of recording 8k video and wants to bring this technologies to consumer level cameras. The company halted their 8k development back in 2011, but now they are investing over $80 million in the next generation 8k image sensor that should be ready by 2018 (previous plans were for 2020).
