Panasonic GH6 Ver.2.0 Firmware to be released on the 5th of July

Panasonic has announced that the Ver.2.0 firmware for the GH6 will be released on the 5th of July.

Panasonic has worked closely with Atomos so that the new GH6 firmware will enable the output of up to 5.8K / 29.97p and 4K DCI / 119.88p RAW video data over HDMI that can be recorded as Apple ProRes RAW on the Atomos NINJA V and NINJA V+.

GH6 Firmware Version 2.0

RAW video data output over HDMI function

Apple ProRes RAW can be recorded on the ATOMOS NINJA V/V+.

A LUT (Lookup table) designed for RAW video recorded on NINJA V/V+ is available on the following customer support website. Panasonic claims that this will make it easy to match colors between the footage recorded with Panasonic Varicam and EVA1 cameras.

Internal recording 4K DCI 60p/FHD 60p in ProRes 422 HQ/ProRes 422

With this new update, it will be possible to shoot internally in 4K DCI or FHH at up to 60p in ProRes 422 HQ/ProRes 422.

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