see also:

• comparison of current Micro Four Thirds cameras
• Micro Four Thirds system
• Panasonic GH-2 camera
• Panasonic G5 camera
• Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera

• the G6 was announced in April 2013 and improves upon the very popular Panasonic G5 camera by adding:
  • better 16mp sensor (same as Panasonic GH-2 camera but improved image quality although no native multi-aspect ratio)
  • faster AF
  • 7fps burst rate instead of 5fps (w/o AF)
  • 5fps burst instead of 3.8fps with AF tracking
  • 3x faster EVF, OLED type
  • 1040K LCD screen instead of 920K screen
  • 2 new scene options - 'Cute Desert' and 'Sweet Child's Face'
  • iAuto able to automatically select one of 9 scene modes to suit the scene
  • 'Clear Retouch' touch gesture-based heal tool
  • ability to touch objects in a photo and erase them with a content-aware fill (a ‘gesture based heal tool’)
  • NFC-simplified Wi-Fi connection for connecting to smartphones to control the camera
  • focus peaking
  • timelapse video mode
  • Progressive AVCHD 2.0 or MP4, 1080/60p/50p at 28Mbps
  • 24p 24Mbps video and full manual control
  • 25p 20Mbps MP4
  • BUT lacks the stand-out high bitrates and ALL-I options of the GH3
  • Zoom rocker switch near the shutter release
  • 40fps burst mode (and rumours of a 4K / 8MP burst mode at 20fps)

• 16mp sensor (same as the Panasonic GH-2 camera but better image quality although no native multi-aspect ratio), ISO 160-25,600
• 3“ 1.04m dot fully articulated capacatative touch screen LCD
• 1.44m dot OLED EVF (3x more responive than the G5 EVF) with eye sensor
• 1080/60p/60i/30p/24p HD AVCHD video plus 60p/30p MP4 video, up tp 28Mbps quality, both with full manual control
• 3.5mm ext. mic socket
• 5fps with AF tracking, 7fps w/o AF
• 23 scene modes including new 'Cute Desert' and 'Sweet Child's Face'
• iAuto can automatically detect which scene mode to use
• 'Clear Retouch' touch gesture-based heal tool
• NFC-simplified Wi-Fi connection for connecting to smartphones to control the camera
• generous hand grip
• 1/4000th sec shutter, x-sync 1/160th sec
• popup flash plus hotshoe but ? no remote TTL flash

• the GH series of Micro Four Thirds system are the current top models made by Panasonic and are differentiated from this G6 by:
  • Panasonic GH-2 camera has a unique over-sized sensor allowing uncropped native 16:9 aspect ratio images
  • highest HD video capabilities with highest movie quality
  • top panel switch controls that make it easier to select:
    • focus mode: S-AF, C-AF or MF
    • drive/self-timer: single, burst, self-timer
  • largest buffer and thus fastest burst rate
  • more powerful built-in flash
  • Panasonic GH-3 has remote TTL flash capability
  • higher price

• dark halo issue when i.Dynamic is turned ON