Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G7KK DSLM Mirrorless 4K Camera, 14-42 mm Lens Kit (Black)

It is great camera for beginners as well as professional s..Because it has plenty of options....It will take some time to get acquainted with it...It is the camera for youtubers, and vloggers...I am happy to own a camera like this...still I am testing it...once it is completed, I will express my opinion...

Good to money Worth for buying Good product More clarity Best focus Good lenses Bright options Portable Battery good Light weight

Panasonic G7 is a very sturdy well built 4K camera which is ideal for both Still and video photography. The price is also good on Amazon

I will update review as I go: The 4k camera with interchangeable lenses, what else you can get? It is overpriced in India, but there is no competition for it in India yet. 16 MP is low but if paired with some nice cheap lense, it does deliver cinematic pictures and videos. I have 3 different lenses for it and it does the job for me. I will update more as time permits

I kept it in cart when it is 73,000 then i saw it turned upto 1 lakh something..... Its beter to import... Amazon.Com.. It cost u about 34,000 think wat is btr.... If u have someone in other countries btr to tell bring it... 32,000 outside means 449 dolar or smthng.... Good camera i like it.... Check sony a6300 too....

Got the camera from another source at a very attractive price. I am loving this camera. I have no previous of DSLR experience or micro-third cameras, but I am learning it with this camera. The camera is excellent. The kit lens from Lumix is super, it a "jack of all trade" for beginners like me. The Panasonic bag provided with the G7 is of excellent quality. It can hold the camera and at least 3-4 lenses. The bag is very strong and looks to weather rough use. A 32 GB SD card also comes with the camera. I have checked the 4K movie too, but I think I won't be able to use this feature much because of storage constraint. A 15 secs 4K video clips take 615MB of storage! So, making a 10 min video will eat up 60 GB storage at least. 1080p HD is very good & I am quite familar with the 1080p 60fps format from my previous Canon Vixia R50 camcoder experience. And at present I will stick to it. The 16 MP in compare to other 24 MP cameras does not matter much to me, I am not into printing profession. The kit lens can capture more than enough details, which will work great for me. The auto-focus is quite good and the camera is very quick. The only bad thing is the battery, the 1200mAh battery just do not have enough juice for video recording sessions. I will need at least 180 mins of recording time, but the battery will only last upto 50-60 mins. So, I will have to stock extra batteries. I am not very keen on these cheap Chinese AC adapter with DC coupler thing as any power surge can damage my beautiful equipment. Nobody can beat this Panasonic micro-third G7 camera in combination to the cheap & high quality lenses. I already got the 25 mm prime lens and now I have ordered the super hit 45mm-150mm zoom lens on Amazon. My kit is complete with the 14mm-44mm kit lens, 25 mm prime & the 45mm-150mm zoom lens. Total cost of ownership is less than 60K, which is much less than body price of entry level Nikon/Canon/Fuji with 4K option. The beauty is when I upgrade to GH5, I have the minimum lens kit ready. Pros: - Best budget 4K camera money can buy - Excellent for both video and photo shoot - Sharp photos, true color - Cheap but best quality lenses from Lumix - Low cost of ownership - Best kit lens (14-42mm) compare to any DSLR / micro-third cameras - 4K video recording - 1080p at 60 fps - Photos at ISO 6400 is quite good - High quality, weather resistant bag - 32 GB SD card supplier - Supports the 64 GB UHS v30 SD card from SanDisk - Lumix lenses are the cheapest compare to any other brand lenses Cons: - Battery is only 1200 mAh, which may not be enough - No in body stabilization - Not weather & dust proof

This is the best camera you can buy at this price. No other camera is this cheap with features like Panasonic G7. Totally recommended for cinematographers.

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This camera is quite the bang for your buck! Great 4K video, lots of programmable buttons, articulating screen, and it comes with a lens as well! Only downside is no headphone jack, but I record audio externally anyways so this doesn't affect me. Also make sure you get a fast SD card, as slower ones will not work with the camera if you're trying to record 4K. Overall it's a great little camera the gives you almost all of the features of the GH4 but at a fraction of the price!

With prices of today's cameras so high, the G7 can be found for around $250 used and it is plenty of camera for most people. I highly recommend it. I've had the camera since 2017 and it is my only m43 camera. I use it with the 14-140ii, 9-18mm, 25mm/1.7 and 43/1.8 primes. It has been a great reliable camera through the years taken to hikes in the mountains, vacations and family gatherings - always delivering good pictures and videos. I think that the shutter shock issue was a little overblown. It has never been an issue for me even keeping the camera in mechanical only shutter. Not saying it does not exist but it is not something that had bothered me. I used the G7 to record my daughter's soccer games for a couple of years and it performed well there as well managing to keep up focus with the action. I used only FHD 60fps so cannot comment on the 4K video. The microphone port made a huge difference in recording good sound. The body is very light at only 400g which keeps the package easy to carry for extended periods of time. With the 14-140 lens the combo weights almost the same as my Sony A57 DSLR alone. The newer upgrades G85 and G95 have gotten bulkier and heavier. Adding image stabilization is probably the main reason for that. With the 14-140 having IOS and the prime lenses being fast I have not missed the in-body image stabilization of the newer models, hence never upgraded. The ergonomics are great with two control dials and plenty of customizable buttons. I love the well placed quick focus mode selector switch and the touchscreen focus select area while looking through the viewfinder. I like the power slider next to the mode dial on the right side of the camera allowing one hand operation when needed. The power switch being on the left side of the camera is what I did not like on all Olympus bodies when I was deciding which brand to go with. I have a small Meike tilt and swivel TTL flash that works really great with the G7. It makes for a light combo at family gatherings for high quality bounced flash pictures. I use only RAW so cannot comment on the JPEG engine. The RAW files allow lots of latitude during processing. Lifting shadows and lowering highlights works very well. ISO up to 3200/6400 is perfectly usable when processed properly.

Todos sabemos que las camaras de calidad tanto Reflex como Mirorless son caras. Yo uso la camara para trabajar, tenemos una agencia de marketing digital. Antes usaba la Canon Rebel T5i y ahora estamos usando esta Panasonic Lumix G7. Principales diferencias entre la G7 y la Rebel T5i: TAMAÑO Ganador: Lumix G7 - La G7 es mirrorless por lo que es mas chica de tamaño y mas ligera . Ademas usa sensor micro cuatro tercios por lo que los lentes son mas compactos comparados con los de la Canon. CALIDAD EN FOTOGRAFIA Ganador: Lumix G7 - Usamos tanto la Canon T5i como la Lumix G7 para tomar fotografia de comida y creemos que la G7 es mejor que la T5i por la viveza de los colores. El unico punto negativo de la G7 es que las fotos son en tamaño 16MB y las de la Canon T5i es de 18MB. CALIDAD EN VIDEO Ganador: Lumix G7 - La G7 graba en 4K por lo que no hay punto de comparación. En video la T5i no tiene nada que hacer contra la G7. FUNCIONES EXTRAS: Ganador: Lumix G7 - Aun no termino de descubrir al 100% la camara, pero hasta ahora he visto dos funciones muy practicas que no tiene la T5i. La primera es foto en 4K; basicamente te permite grabar pequeños clips de video y de ahi sacar fotos 4K de excelente calidad de 8MB. Y la otra funcion es la de timelapse: se pueden crear los efectos de timelapse muy fácilmente. FACILIDAD DEL SOFTWARE: Ganador: Canon T5i - Quiza es porque aun no me acostumbro al sistema de Panasonic, pero se me hacia mas facil el sistema Canon. Pero igual aquí es cuestión de acostumbrarse. Creo que las camaras Reflex ya van de salida. Si vas a comprar una camara te recomiendo una mirrorless. Y si estas comparando entre la Canon T5i y la Lumix G7, te puedo decir con seguridad que la Lumix G7 es mucho mejor. Tiene mas funciones y podrás grabar video en 4K.

EDITED 8/17/2015: I recently received a Panasonic G7 from Amazon, and I have already shot over 20,000 frames with it during the seven weeks I've had it (with many different lenses, and with mostly using the electronic shutter), plus a few video tests. Since I already own the Panasonic G5, and GH4 (and I also had the G6), and have shot over 125,000(!) photos with these MFT cameras, I was familiar with Panasonic cameras, and also with the menu settings changes I generally make to get what I want in the images. The G7 fits “neatly” between the very small and light G5/6 bodies and the considerably larger and heavier GH4 (although that one is still relatively compact compared with most dSLRs, and its MFT lenses are also generally very compact and light – and this gear is FUN to carry and use!). I value the GH4 for its excellent EVF, great grip (it is easy and secure to use one-handed), its excellent set of useful external controls, its wide range of useful options in its easily-used menus, the excellence of its stills-quality (with selected type and sample of lenses, and with customized menu settings), and its great video capabilities. I value the G5 for its sharp EVF (the one on the G6 has better color and contrast, but it is not as sharp), its miniscule size and weight, its very good external controls and menus, and the excellence of its stills and video (although the G5, unlike the G6, has no external mic input, and it is without focus-peaking). The G7 is a nice combination of the good qualities of both the G5/6 and the GH4, at a lower price in size, weight, and cost compared with the GH4 - although it is without weather-sealing and high data-rate and slow-motion 1080 video options (but it does have 100Mbps 4K-24/30P video plus “4K-Photo” options). The excellent EVF is similar to the one in the GH4, the grip is almost as good, the external controls (both buttons and knobs) are unusually numerous and useful, and the menus are similar to, and consistent with, those of the other models in the line. A few items have been added to what the G5 had: 4K-Photo/Video, the tone-curve adjustment shared with the GX7/8 and GH4 (I find this very useful!), “Diffraction Compensation” (I briefly tried this and decided to leave it “Off” – it progressively sharpens the image as the lens is stopped down to its smallest stops to offset the softening normally resulting from diffraction, but this can result in excessive noise even in good light - and this sharpening can be done better during editing), and an external mic input similar to the one on the G6 (but missing on the G5 and GX7). Using the G7's electronic shutter, leaving the EVF and camera always-on during shooting sessions, and using no flash, I get well over 600 JPG highest-quality frames per battery charge. As for color and other photo characteristics, I appreciate having the ability to adjust EVERYTHING on these Panasonic MFT cameras (color balance and saturation, contrast, color-curves, sharpening and noise-reduction levels, etc.) - and I also appreciate being able to match surprisingly well the EVF's characteristics with those of my reference computer monitor so that I get very useful and accurate previewing while using the EVF (with a floppy wide-brimmed hat worn while outdoors to shade the EVF). These cameras are a "tweaker's" (read, "perfectionist's"...;-) dream come true...! Overall, I have no real complaints with the G7, although a few things bothered me very slightly at first. As with the GH4, the rear “dial” (which on the G7 is a circle of buttons as with the G5, rather than a wheel as with the GH4) gets somewhat “hidden” below the rear surface of the camera toward the “dial’s” upper right – but this is to keep it from being unintentionally pressed/moved by the right hand gripping the camera. It took me a bit of time to remember the new way to access exposure bias adjustment (I generally use A-Priority, setting the aperture for best lens performance with each lens and/or for best DOF for what I want in the image – and I often adjust exposure-bias as I shoot, using the excellent EVF as a guide), and it required a button-push to access this on the G7 (the G5/6 and GH4 can be left with the rear thumb-wheel needing only to be moved in order to adjust exposure bias). But, I discovered that with going into "Dial Set" in the menus, I was able to enable exposure biasing with a simple turn of the rear wheel (no button press required!;-). Also, the image resolution is very slightly smaller than that of the other Panasonic cameras I've used, but this is of little practical consequence. And, as others have noticed, the G7's (and also my GH4's) serial number tends to "evaporate" - and with my G7, there is now no trace remaining of that number. Panasonic has recognized this issue, and if both the box label with the serial number and the purchase invoice are retained, and if the camera is registered with Panasonic, the warranty will be honored. Bottom line: this is one HECK of a nice camera, at a very decent price! Highly recommended! (A few photos taken with the G7 are attached...) --DR

Me costó menos de 10,000 lo cual es muy peculiar para una mirrorles en primera instancia, la he estado probando para varios tipos de foto, el cuerpo funciona de maravilla y todas las funcionalidades que tiene la hacen extremadamente versátil y relativamente fácil de usar. Tiene una excelente calidad en sus materiales, incluso el lente, pero eso me lleva a la limitación: el lente. El lente con el que viene es bueno, pero muy limitado, evidentemente es lago básico y te limita en cuanto a las capacidades que la cámara podría tener. Puede ser necesario un telefoto y/o un prime de 25mm para tener mejores capacidades (también depende del tipo de foto que quieres tomar), que Amazon tambien ofrece.