New Panasonic GH1 Has Multi-Aspect Ratio Sensor

New Panasonic GH1 Has Multi-Aspect Ratio Sensor
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The new Micro Four Thirds Panasonic GH1, announced today, offers HD video. The new Lumix G Vario HD 14-140mm kit lens supports continuous contrast detection autofocus in an optically stabilized lens, nicely suited to the the video capabilities of the GH1. A 7-14mm Micro 4/3 lens was also announced, while the 20mm f/1.7 pancake, awaited by many, has not surfaced in the announcements.

Buried in the massive amount of GH1 coverage is the fact that unlike the first Micro 4/3 camera, the Panasonic G1,the GH1 makes good on one of the original specifications of the m4/3, the multi-aspect ratio sensor. Like the sensor in the Panasonic LX3, the 12MP sensor in the GH1 allows users to take photos in 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9 aspect ratios with the same angle of view as depicted below.

For full coverage of the GH1 announcement, see 1001 Noisy Cameras.

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Luc de Schepper · 840 weeks ago

Thanks for posting this Amin. It seems that the GH1 also supports the 1:1 format, very nice :-)

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Juha Haataja · 839 weeks ago

This is indeed interesting! On the LX3, the Panasonic multi-aspect sensor works great. With the bigger sensor of the GH1, this may be really good in terms of versatility, and also image quality, thanks to the added pixels in the various aspect ratios.

And yest, the GH1 does support also 1:1 aspect ratio, but that is cropped, it is not native as the other three ratios.

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