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Panasonic GH4 RAW vs. JPEG High ISO Comparison

June 11, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Panasonic_GH4_Mirrorless_Digital_Camera_Body

I’m still in the middle of my ongoing review of the new Panasonic GH4 and wanted to share a few files of the same scene shot across the ISO range.

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Here’s a quick look at the in-camera JPEG file processing vs. the GH4 RAW files converted to DNGs and processed through Lightroom 5 with no adjustments. First, here’s a look at the full scene that was captured.

Panasonic GH4 Sample Image

Next, is a chart that looks at the full resolution of the files.

On the left, you’ll see a 100% crop of the images that came as JPEG files straight from the camera. On the right, you’ll see the corresponding RAW files shot alongside the JPEG files in a RAW + JPEG configuration.

GH4 ISO Test

If you want to take a look at the full resolution files, you can download them at the following links

  • ISO 200: JPEG – RAW
  • ISO 400: JPEG – RAW
  • ISO 800: JPEG – RAW
  • ISO 1600: JPEG – RAW
  • ISO 3200: JPEG – RAW
  • ISO 6400: JPEG – RAW
  • ISO 12800: JPEG – RAW
  • ISO 25600: JPEG – RAW

[UPDATE: I have added both the RAW files and the converted DNG files for those who want to examine the originals in your own raw processing program. You can download the original files at this link. Please do not post the download link directly to any forums or other sites. It’s ok to link to this page, but if the external bandwidth gets heavy, I will have to take them down.]

I’ll have some additional comparisons soon and full review is in the works as well.

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Panasonic GH4 at B&H Photo

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Filed Under: Panasonic Tagged With: GH4, iso, noise, Panasonic, raw

 

Comments

  1. TOM T says

    June 12, 2014 at 8:15 am

    Hi Eric,

    Thanks for preparing the samples, I’ve had the GH4 for some weeks now, and been playing around with it and comparing it with the GH3 and GX7 but in a non-technical way, and I still believe the GX7 is still much better in the still. I can’t confirm 100% yet, as I am waiting for Adobe to update’s RAW profile for LR, but so far, that’s my opinion and test is coming from DxO Optic’s conversion.

  2. Adam says

    June 13, 2014 at 8:42 am

    Thanks for the samples. Any chance of linking to the actual RAW files for us to play with ourselves?

    • Eric Reagan says

      June 13, 2014 at 11:33 am

      I’ll see about getting those up in the next day or two.

      • Adam says

        June 17, 2014 at 7:07 am

        Thanks!

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