The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 is a digital camera with HD video recording capability that is part of the Micro Four Thirds system.

The Micro Four Thirds system (with its crop factor of 2 when compared to 35 mm still) does not offer the degree of shallow-focus effects possible with full-frame cameras.

Micro Four Thirds has the same sensor size as the Four Thirds System but replaces the complex optical path needed for the optical viewfinder with an electronic viewfinder displaying a live view; this allows for smaller and lighter lenses and bodies.

Recording is to a SDHC or SDXC flash memory card in AVCHD or M-JPEG format, giving up to high quality HD 1080P video at 24 fps with up to 2 hours per take on the USA or Canadian versions (for the European version it's 30 minutes per take maximum due to a European tax on video cameras[citation needed]).

The Panasonic GH2 is compatible with the full range of Micro Four Thirds system lenses including: Wide-angle lens Standard lens Telephoto lens Super-Zoom Prime lens 3D lens Various official mount adapters are available[5] Many unofficial adapters allow mounting of additional lenses Panasonic released firmware version 1.1 in October 2011, with a "compatibility update for new Panasonic X class lenses with power zoom (PZ) feature" which enabled the following with them: display of the local length, step zoom, zoom resume, and selectable zoom speed;[6] and a number of other new features and improvements.

[7][8] Non-Panasonic modifications to the camera's firmware, often referred to as hacks, have been developed and posted on the Internet.

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