

Video is no longer available: Video is no longer available: If picture-in-picture is the only option, it may prove to be less useful, but if you could record two separate streams at once I could see this being useful for an interview situation where you need two angles very quickly. With this functionality you can shoot from alternate distances or angles for a variety of picture-in-picture images. For more versatility, you can connect your smartphone via Wi-Fi and use that instead of the built-in secondary camera. The twin camera operation also features a narration mode to record ongoing commentary while shooting. This additional camera provides 270° panning and ☒0° tilting for recording two angles simultaneously. There is also a secondary camera on the WX970 (the 870 and 770 both allow the smartphone feature since they don't have two cameras on-board): You can easily switch to slow motion while recording with a simple touch on the LCD screen. The frame interpolation could also find its way into other cameras, which may give us super high frame rates on cameras that are only capable of 120 or 240:įor a more dramatic slow motion effect, the Crystal Engine's Intelligent Frame Creation interpolates frames to achieve an equivalent of 240 fps. As you can see in the video above, the HDR is a huge step up from the standard video, and there don't seem to be any motion artifacts that are too jarring from combining exposures. If Panasonic wants to incorporate this technology into more professional cameras (depending on how they implement it), it could prove to be very useful. 4K is nice, though more dynamic range can certainly improve how a scene looks, especially if you're in harsh lighting conditions.

Many of you probably don't care much about this announcement, but this sort of technology will usually find its way into other cameras. With HDR you can maintain gradation in your images in difficult shooting situations, like when your subject is back-lit. By combining two images taken with different exposure times, the HDR Movie function suppresses blown highlights and blocked shadows for crisper, clearer videos.
