Smart move. The predecessors are climbing up in value in the used market and almost everything with a similar form factor from the competition is out of stock everywhere. Camera snobs might scoff at it, but these things sell, people want them and that is what matters.
Cameras always are devices of compromises. I have the ZS200, which has a one inch sensor, but no tilting screen. That said, Panasonic knows what they're doing and I think this fills a place in the market where so many other camera makers have abandoned compacts. That optical zoom is a big advantage over phones.
Can Panasonic spend their meager camera business budget making things people want? A successor to the GX9? Rather than whatever these two tiny updates are. This is why they get so much flak imo. They seem to make endless puzzling decisions, and then once in a while, a truly brilliant move like the GH7. Then we get weird things like a 26mm f8 $200, S5D for $1800, and now these. Please, GX9ii. Something of substance.
Excited to see this format making a comeback. One of my favorite cameras is my old Fujifilm X-10, but it's missing a lot of modern connectivity features.
Thanks Panasonixc.... been waiting for something ike this for ages. With aging limbs I can now go for a hike with something like this in the bag.. weight is importatnt for me these dasy
What many people likely don't know: At 720mm, the Zs99 captures as much light per time from a distant object (for example the moon or a distant bird) as a full frame camera with a 35mm f/1.75 lens. The effective lens diameter= focal length/f-number determines how much light is captured from an object per exposure time. If the moon looks less noisy on the full frame camera, then this is not due to capturing more light, but due to the lower resolution and due to less read noise. Fewer pixels per object usually means less read noise per object. A full frame camera with a 35mm lens would give you about the same number of pixels per object, if the sensor had more than 7 gigapixel.
Hi Richard! Great review of an exciting pocket point & shoot camera. What's amazing is that Leica still makes such lenses for Panasonic. I have the vintage Panasonic Lumix with Leica zoom lens. Have used that camera when I've traveled. Carry it with me everyday in my backpack. Even shot an art video in a museum. The quality of the video was actually amazing. 😎😎
Until recently, I never really cared about every day carry cameras, or these really big zoom ranges, but overtime I’ve really began to appreciate the smallest most versatile possible cameras, whether they’re interchangeable or not. I got a ZS 200 with its bigger sensor and have really enjoyed that camera and really appreciate a huge zoom range and this camera despite the smaller sensor has an even bigger zoom to compensate. I definitely be at least somewhat interested in trying one of these out for sure!
hey Rhett! yes it's funny i feel the same as well. The camera being pocketable does make it really handy even though we will have to sacrifice the image quality a bit.
They have introduced LUT into the Lumix S9, so I am surprised Panasonic has not introduced LUT into this compact camera. It is quite a "disappointment." Look at the Fujifilm X100VI or the Ricoh GR III, they have LUT build in and they are hot selling off the shelf. Panasonic should produce things that the customers wants. They should introduce back the Lumix GM series, GX series, put in LUT and you can see it will fly off the shelves.
A camera like this is best paired with large sensor camera for low light and portraits. That's where its value is best. Use it for the range in bright daylight situations.
thats some crazy reach zoom. would be fun to try it. was hoping with the small sensor could go to 4k 120p like action cams but guess they need to keep the cost down.
yes i think price is a factor, as it's not just the sensor, you need faster processor, and maybe bigger battery..etc to support 4k120 so it will drive up the price significantly.
First! 📸 I actually just digged up my old point and shoot to take some shots with a flash, it’s pretty cool to chuck in the pocket but really want a point and shoot with Real Time LUT!! 😜
Looks like a downgrade to me. I can accept if there is no evf on a small zoom but good luck to use the 720mm end without an evf. Seems like there is a trend that camera makers doing these days that cameras starting to lose evf at least in case of models which are targeting non-professional photographers. Similar to the trend when phones lost the jack input for headphones. I surely keep my TZ200 instead. Very thorough video Richard.
@@duckdog7277 They have been discontinued as far as I know. But after this release I wouldn't be surprised that Lumix might give the TZ202 a similar upgrade in the future.
yes i think 1" with 24-200 would be a good compromise for better image quality and less reach. But the price of a 1" camera will be a lot higher than this TZ99.
Seems like it would be common sense for the major camera manufacturers to make a few pocket sized zoom digicams since they're so in demand right now..what am I missing??why won't they make them if people are willing and ready to buy them?
@@TheRealRichardWong Usually when taking pics I use the EVF. When taking video or waist level photos or selfies: I use the screen. Super convenient camera.
As an owner of a GF2, then GF6 for better specs, I thing the GF line failed when Panasonic ditches the click-wheel of the GF1/2 and GX1. So I bought the GX1 too... .
I get that there has been a resurgence in popularity for compact cameras, but I feel like it's a pretty major gamble for Panasonic to bring back a product line that has already dried up once and isn't going to have a lot of common parts with the rest of their products. I think that this needed to be released two months ago though, because this would probably be a great Christmas gift but they missed that window. I think this is going to have a rough launch, similar to the S9.
I really don't want to know what the people at Panasonic are doing. They should produce a compact with LUT, Full frame, and a 12-50mm lens. With USB-C and Bluetooth 5.0.
Hi Richard! How doe it compare to FZ80D (which you reviewed earlier) in terms of the image quality? Say if they're both on 30x, which do you think is a better performer?
i haven't really compare them side by side so sorry can't comment. But FZ80D has a 60x optical zoom. However there is a huge difference in terms of size
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I want a TZ99-like look and size, half-frame compact camera lens, 12-28 equivalent to 18-40, large aperture, the aluminum alloy near the rubber is flat
@@richardgorski23 Panasonic had a phone with a 1" sensor as far back as 2014, technically. There are a handful of phones from 2021-now that have them, though none of them are Apple/Samsung/Google. Vivo, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Huawei all have 1" sensor phone offerings.
i really want panasonic to make a pocket prime camera reusing their 14mm or 20mm optic + their 20mp mft sensor like the Ricoh's GRIII and i don't care if it doesn't have EVF as long as it has the hotshoe and compatibility to their old external EVF
Its a cool camera, but i'd honestly pick up a used Sony RX100 or ZV1 over this, because it doesn't do anything really better than either of those. If it did IBS, more than 20 megapixels; in 2024?! , and had the better AF system on the S5II system, than sure it would make sense.. But I feel like this was kind of a waste of time for Lumix to work on tbh; nothing about this is revolutionary, that separates it from camera's Sony released years ago. 😞
I prefer display screen over EVF. There is no EVF that is good enough or bright enough especially if you wear glasses. Other than a DSLR viewfinder, EVF is just sub par. Rather use a good high resolution touch screen display
Right, people are looking for compact super zooms again but almost all the manufacturers stopped making it. Who’s the only one left? Canon, with the SX740. Why doesn’t anyone buy it? Because NO EVF ON A SUPERZOOM. Not going to be fun to use. Now, people won’t buy the ZS99 either and the camera industry as a whole will shrug and say the consumer doesn’t want it because they don’t sell. They would! Nikon, please save us and bring back the A1000.
An interesting camera but unfortunately contrast detect Autofocus vs Phase detect, for that reason, not interested,. It would be great to have this in the car as as something always by your side.
I am not getting it. Why do they create a Vlog monitor and ommit the extra viewfinder but then don't give any mic port? Makes no sense. Or does USB-C allow for external mics? Any software features that would take it above a smartphone? Like with the zoom they could add a tracking feature for people that zooms in and out automatically if you have the thing sitting on a tripod for example. Any computational photography tricks like on smartphones for night or low light photos? At least that should be an option nowadays. I don't understand why the stabilisation is so weak with that small sensor size it should be rock steady. 4k and no 60fps is a bummer as well. Again I am better of with en EVF and just a tiltable screen for pure photography. This is half baked and video performance is so much poop that I would rather use my phone for such shots. What I really like to see is a 1 inch sensor camera like this with a "longer zoom". Does not need to be 30x optical. 15x optical and 30x with in sensor crop would be enough. Make it either a pure photography oriented camera. Or if you offer a flipup screen and no EVF do proper stabilisation OIS with EIS as well as offering a mic port better even wireless mic support and maybe builtin storage (like 128G or something like that) with easy to transfer and edit video files on your tablet, phone or laptop. Smartphones with their 30x and computational photography might in most situations beat this one though those smartphones which are good at it are probably way more expensive.
Just think of the drone identifications you can do with this. They still sell little barn doors for pocket cameras on ebay. Maybe you can find a folding set. Panasonic should have integrated a removable one for this model. First thing is get, and use the wrist strap at all times. I'm not impressed with the fastest aperture of this lens. Don't ever put one of these cameras in a pocket that has lint in it. It WILL get sucked back onto the the sensor. A proper upgrade of this camera would give you a way to clean the sensor. A 30x zoom will suck any dust on the barrel of the lens back into it. 30x is cute, but how's the optical stabilization? My Canon 310 Elph, of which somehow, I still have two of them in new condition...and another beat, but still working, has an 8x optical zoom, and running that zoom during handheld video, is remarkably smooth, and even at 8x zoomed in, the OIS does very well. I prefer the glass in my older Panasonic pocket cameras but the Canon is excellent. These Leica lenses tend to have better corner sharpness. So, make some kind of liner for your pocket, or find a model that has a case that attaches to your belt. Oh, one more thing, the focus tracking on that Canon is amazing. I shot a video of a fake fight scene at night with the camera in one hand and a hand held LED in the other, swooping all over in and out of the fight, and I never lost focus. I'm spoiled. If you'd like to see the film I made, it's on youtube as Bum Rap Andre Hunt. 50% shot with a Canon 5D Mark II and the other half with the pocket Elph. And no one has ever noticed a difference.
why not 1 inch sensor ;( and 4k 60. we have sony rx100 VII with 1 inch sensor from 2019 xd. so this lumix tz99 is like sony hx99 ;p from 2018. same sensor size, same zoom range... this is JOKE
PANASONIC: as MFT in GF2/GX1 FORM FACTOR PLEASE. with CLICK-DAIL and NO TILT-SCREEN, but HOT-SHOE EVF ... maybe LEICA Visoflex compatible, so no real need to produce themselves. and IM{ORTANT: usable via USB-C (inkl. PD) as a WEBCAM, incl. MIC-INPUT-Jack. For a fair price "instant buy". optional B/W version - will sell like "hot cakes".
Smart move. The predecessors are climbing up in value in the used market and almost everything with a similar form factor from the competition is out of stock everywhere. Camera snobs might scoff at it, but these things sell, people want them and that is what matters.
I bought a TZ3 in 2007. The image quality was fantastic. On a winter trip to US, the LCD literally froze and died! Lesson learned the hard way.
Cameras always are devices of compromises. I have the ZS200, which has a one inch sensor, but no tilting screen. That said, Panasonic knows what they're doing and I think this fills a place in the market where so many other camera makers have abandoned compacts. That optical zoom is a big advantage over phones.
This is the best news of the day for me.
Thanks for watching Dymanh!
Can Panasonic spend their meager camera business budget making things people want? A successor to the GX9? Rather than whatever these two tiny updates are. This is why they get so much flak imo. They seem to make endless puzzling decisions, and then once in a while, a truly brilliant move like the GH7. Then we get weird things like a 26mm f8 $200, S5D for $1800, and now these.
Please, GX9ii. Something of substance.
Excited to see this format making a comeback. One of my favorite cameras is my old Fujifilm X-10, but it's missing a lot of modern connectivity features.
Nice Test Richard.
I hope we have in the future a new GX9II or GM5 II.
Thanks Panasonixc.... been waiting for something ike this for ages. With aging limbs I can now go for a hike with something like this in the bag.. weight is importatnt for me these dasy
What many people likely don't know: At 720mm, the Zs99 captures as much light per time from a distant object (for example the moon or a distant bird) as a full frame camera with a 35mm f/1.75 lens. The effective lens diameter= focal length/f-number determines how much light is captured from an object per exposure time.
If the moon looks less noisy on the full frame camera, then this is not due to capturing more light, but due to the lower resolution and due to less read noise. Fewer pixels per object usually means less read noise per object. A full frame camera with a 35mm lens would give you about the same number of pixels per object, if the sensor had more than 7 gigapixel.
It’s the Dlux 8’s cousin I LOVE IT!!!
Hi Richard! Great review of an exciting pocket point & shoot camera. What's amazing is that Leica still makes such lenses for Panasonic. I have the vintage Panasonic Lumix with Leica zoom lens. Have used that camera when I've traveled. Carry it with me everyday in my backpack. Even shot an art video in a museum. The quality of the video was actually amazing. 😎😎
Until recently, I never really cared about every day carry cameras, or these really big zoom ranges, but overtime I’ve really began to appreciate the smallest most versatile possible cameras, whether they’re interchangeable or not. I got a ZS 200 with its bigger sensor and have really enjoyed that camera and really appreciate a huge zoom range and this camera despite the smaller sensor has an even bigger zoom to compensate. I definitely be at least somewhat interested in trying one of these out for sure!
agree, pocketable super zoom is handy
hey Rhett! yes it's funny i feel the same as well. The camera being pocketable does make it really handy even though we will have to sacrifice the image quality a bit.
They have introduced LUT into the Lumix S9, so I am surprised Panasonic has not introduced LUT into this compact camera. It is quite a "disappointment."
Look at the Fujifilm X100VI or the Ricoh GR III, they have LUT build in and they are hot selling off the shelf.
Panasonic should produce things that the customers wants.
They should introduce back the Lumix GM series, GX series, put in LUT and you can see it will fly off the shelves.
Great timing, my TZ100 is getting quite old, especially with 30K photos taken and being dropped many times. Thanks.
I’m glad this has happened. But we do need an lx100 iii with dual base iso and 24mpx.
They removed the EVF? No way I will keep my ZS 80
crazy to remove the EVF??
Removing the viewfinder on cameras is such a stupid trend.
A camera like this is best paired with large sensor camera for low light and portraits. That's where its value is best. Use it for the range in bright daylight situations.
thats some crazy reach zoom. would be fun to try it. was hoping with the small sensor could go to 4k 120p like action cams but guess they need to keep the cost down.
yes i think price is a factor, as it's not just the sensor, you need faster processor, and maybe bigger battery..etc to support 4k120 so it will drive up the price significantly.
First! 📸 I actually just digged up my old point and shoot to take some shots with a flash, it’s pretty cool to chuck in the pocket but really want a point and shoot with Real Time LUT!! 😜
Yeah a complete brand new point and shoot with all the latest Lumix tech would be awesome!
I have my TZ90 and love it .....
I'm still using a TZ 70, it is a jewel for walk around, and I think that his 12mp is more than that little zoom lens ressolution it is able to handle
I have the canon sx740 and I like it, I would love to see substantially improved versions of these type of cameras and I believe that it is possible
need Lumix lx100 new edtion plz best camera in size
Looks like a downgrade to me. I can accept if there is no evf on a small zoom but good luck to use the 720mm end without an evf. Seems like there is a trend that camera makers doing these days that cameras starting to lose evf at least in case of models which are targeting non-professional photographers. Similar to the trend when phones lost the jack input for headphones. I surely keep my TZ200 instead. Very thorough video Richard.
I would have LOVED a proper RX100VII alternative. aka a 1inch sensor with bright 24-200 zoom lens. Damn it Panasonic
Not gonna happen for $499, try $1,199 and then everyone would cry about the price lol
Not sure if it's still being sold but the lumix tz220 is a 1inch sensor p&s cam with a 24-360mm zoom, and it's amazing
@@duckdog7277 They have been discontinued as far as I know. But after this release I wouldn't be surprised that Lumix might give the TZ202 a similar upgrade in the future.
yes i think 1" with 24-200 would be a good compromise for better image quality and less reach. But the price of a 1" camera will be a lot higher than this TZ99.
Seems like it would be common sense for the major camera manufacturers to make a few pocket sized zoom digicams since they're so in demand right now..what am I missing??why won't they make them if people are willing and ready to buy them?
While I'm glad Panasonic is still producing TZ/ZS line cameras I'm glad I still have my TZ95. The EVF is small but incredibly useful.
hey Tom, Do you use the EVF on your TZ95 a lot? Or mostly under some special situations like zoom all the way in?
@@TheRealRichardWong Usually when taking pics I use the EVF. When taking video or waist level photos or selfies: I use the screen. Super convenient camera.
that control dial is going to confuse the hell out of folks
As an owner of a GF2, then GF6 for better specs, I thing the GF line failed when Panasonic ditches the click-wheel of the GF1/2 and GX1. So I bought the GX1 too... .
I get that there has been a resurgence in popularity for compact cameras, but I feel like it's a pretty major gamble for Panasonic to bring back a product line that has already dried up once and isn't going to have a lot of common parts with the rest of their products.
I think that this needed to be released two months ago though, because this would probably be a great Christmas gift but they missed that window. I think this is going to have a rough launch, similar to the S9.
I really don't want to know what the people at Panasonic are doing.
They should produce a compact with LUT, Full frame, and a 12-50mm lens.
With USB-C and Bluetooth 5.0.
It reminds me the old LX 100 which I sold a few years ago. It was a little momster. 😅
I have TZ95D and I almost never pick it up over Sony RX100 VA. Maybe a LX15 successor would have made more sense with improved and competitive AF.
Hi Richard! How doe it compare to FZ80D (which you reviewed earlier) in terms of the image quality? Say if they're both on 30x, which do you think is a better performer?
i haven't really compare them side by side so sorry can't comment. But FZ80D has a 60x optical zoom. However there is a huge difference in terms of size
I think compact cameras are actually more popular now than ever, I'm not sure what you mean. Nice video overall though!
How is that possible that Panasonic put a grip on a cheap point and shot and not in LUMIX S9?. Thanks for sharing
It's wild they still haven't improved sensor read-out speeds for 1/2.3" sensors. Surely the jello effect should be completely eliminated by now.
No one inch sensor. No deal . Btw fellow NZer here
I'm sure the image quality will never compete with the Fuji X100VI. I wish it could.
I don't like that they removed the Fn4 button (one can choose the function of each button).
A lack of EVF is a big mistake ....Just like the S9
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phones started migrating to 1" sensor like 3 yrs ago..
still no 30x optical zoom.
30x optical zoom is crazy. But DFD? 💀
I want a TZ99-like look and size, half-frame compact camera lens, 12-28 equivalent to 18-40, large aperture, the aluminum alloy near the rubber is flat
something like the LX100?
@@TheRealRichardWong LENS change to 9-20 1.4 OR apsc -12 28
Pictures looked good would be nice to see pictures of people to see skin tones
thanks for the suggestion!
Ahh the tz99 sensor is smaller than my 1 inch phone sensor
just without phone insane post processing
I doubt your phone has a 1 inch sensor
@@richardgorski23 Panasonic had a phone with a 1" sensor as far back as 2014, technically. There are a handful of phones from 2021-now that have them, though none of them are Apple/Samsung/Google. Vivo, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Huawei all have 1" sensor phone offerings.
Panasonic, please don’t make us a daytime camera in 2024.
@@richardgorski23 many flagships have 1 inch sensor, tho youre gonna be stuck with super wide 23mm/19mm equivalent lens
i really want panasonic to make a pocket prime camera reusing their 14mm or 20mm optic + their 20mp mft sensor like the Ricoh's GRIII
and i don't care if it doesn't have EVF as long as it has the hotshoe and compatibility to their old external EVF
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Its a cool camera, but i'd honestly pick up a used Sony RX100 or ZV1 over this, because it doesn't do anything really better than either of those. If it did IBS, more than 20 megapixels; in 2024?! , and had the better AF system on the S5II system, than sure it would make sense.. But I feel like this was kind of a waste of time for Lumix to work on tbh; nothing about this is revolutionary, that separates it from camera's Sony released years ago. 😞
I have TZ95D and RX100 VA, and on any given day, I'd pick up Sony over TZ95D, for so many reasons.
LX15 successor would have made more sense, TBH.
I prefer display screen over EVF. There is no EVF that is good enough or bright enough especially if you wear glasses. Other than a DSLR viewfinder, EVF is just sub par. Rather use a good high resolution touch screen display
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Disappointed about the sensor size and the F-related limitations.
its got fairly smaller sensor than what most cheap android have, tho its gotta have much better lense than some average plastic lense found on a phone
Leatherette, matte and satin black on the same body? Weird combo that makes it look cheap imho.
Right, people are looking for compact super zooms again but almost all the manufacturers stopped making it. Who’s the only one left? Canon, with the SX740. Why doesn’t anyone buy it? Because NO EVF ON A SUPERZOOM. Not going to be fun to use. Now, people won’t buy the ZS99 either and the camera industry as a whole will shrug and say the consumer doesn’t want it because they don’t sell. They would! Nikon, please save us and bring back the A1000.
I don't understant the price point. 299 and it would sell better to non-photographers. Impressive zoom though.
Why are they rereleasing a camera that is nearly 10 years old with basically no updates?
An interesting camera but unfortunately contrast detect Autofocus vs Phase detect, for that reason, not interested,. It would be great to have this in the car as as something always by your side.
i wish they back lumix lx100 mft sensor the best ever cam ihave tryed even than om1 and my fujix100vi
I am not getting it. Why do they create a Vlog monitor and ommit the extra viewfinder but then don't give any mic port? Makes no sense. Or does USB-C allow for external mics?
Any software features that would take it above a smartphone? Like with the zoom they could add a tracking feature for people that zooms in and out automatically if you have the thing sitting on a tripod for example.
Any computational photography tricks like on smartphones for night or low light photos? At least that should be an option nowadays.
I don't understand why the stabilisation is so weak with that small sensor size it should be rock steady. 4k and no 60fps is a bummer as well. Again I am better of with en EVF and just a tiltable screen for pure photography. This is half baked and video performance is so much poop that I would rather use my phone for such shots.
What I really like to see is a 1 inch sensor camera like this with a "longer zoom". Does not need to be 30x optical. 15x optical and 30x with in sensor crop would be enough. Make it either a pure photography oriented camera. Or if you offer a flipup screen and no EVF do proper stabilisation OIS with EIS as well as offering a mic port better even wireless mic support and maybe builtin storage (like 128G or something like that) with easy to transfer and edit video files on your tablet, phone or laptop.
Smartphones with their 30x and computational photography might in most situations beat this one though those smartphones which are good at it are probably way more expensive.
How is this affordable for $500 US, with tax $550?
one can get a used gh5 like any day for that money..
Just think of the drone identifications you can do with this. They still sell little barn doors for pocket cameras on ebay. Maybe you can find a folding set. Panasonic should have integrated a removable one for this model. First thing is get, and use the wrist strap at all times. I'm not impressed with the fastest aperture of this lens. Don't ever put one of these cameras in a pocket that has lint in it. It WILL get sucked back onto the the sensor. A proper upgrade of this camera would give you a way to clean the sensor. A 30x zoom will suck any dust on the barrel of the lens back into it. 30x is cute, but how's the optical stabilization? My Canon 310 Elph, of which somehow, I still have two of them in new condition...and another beat, but still working, has an 8x optical zoom, and running that zoom during handheld video, is remarkably smooth, and even at 8x zoomed in, the OIS does very well. I prefer the glass in my older Panasonic pocket cameras but the Canon is excellent. These Leica lenses tend to have better corner sharpness. So, make some kind of liner for your pocket, or find a model that has a case that attaches to your belt. Oh, one more thing, the focus tracking on that Canon is amazing. I shot a video of a fake fight scene at night with the camera in one hand and a hand held LED in the other, swooping all over in and out of the fight, and I never lost focus. I'm spoiled. If you'd like to see the film I made, it's on youtube as Bum Rap Andre Hunt. 50% shot with a Canon 5D Mark II and the other half with the pocket Elph. And no one has ever noticed a difference.
I say it will be a dud no one will pay that much when they can just pull out their phone.
Youre not getting a 30x optical zoom on your phone. Not even close. I have a ZS19 and it destroys my iPhone 15 Pro Max in anything over like 70mm
2025 and not even a 1 inch sensor, EVF, image stabilization, 4k60? Panasonic trying to create a 1/23" vlogging camera? such a L
It’s a cell phone camera in a compact body. No thabks!!!
But still far bigger than a phone, chip size
why not 1 inch sensor ;( and 4k 60. we have sony rx100 VII with 1 inch sensor from 2019 xd. so this lumix tz99 is like sony hx99 ;p from 2018. same sensor size, same zoom range... this is JOKE
Is this just a repackaged Sony HX99 from 6 years ago?
No EVF? No thank you.
Using 1/2.3" camera in 2024 is clown move
Not when you want a pocketable camera with 30x zoom lens
No viewfinder, no care. May as well just use a phone.
NO 4k 60fps really Panasonic?
PANASONIC: as MFT in GF2/GX1 FORM FACTOR PLEASE. with CLICK-DAIL and NO TILT-SCREEN, but HOT-SHOE EVF ... maybe LEICA Visoflex compatible, so no real need to produce themselves. and IM{ORTANT: usable via USB-C (inkl. PD) as a WEBCAM, incl. MIC-INPUT-Jack.
For a fair price "instant buy". optional B/W version - will sell like "hot cakes".