Panasonic manager says the use of Stock photos for the S9 product page is due to “20 year old mentality”
Lumix S9: Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Panasonic US, FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK, Panasonic UK.
As you know the Japanese Panasonic S9 product page briefly made use of Stock photos to showcase the S9 features. Some of those photos were even shot on Canon/Nikon cameras.
Sankei had a chat with Panasonic managers and reports:
A company representative explained, “More than 20 years ago, in a video camera advertisement, there was a technique of inserting images that were not the actual product, and we created the site with that mindset.” The company is a latecomer manufacturer that launched the “LUMIX” brand in 2001 and entered the digital camera market in earnest. Before that, it mainly dealt with home video cameras.
The marketing and development departments work together to decide on the content of the product sites for cameras, including the S9, and there were instances of misleading paid images being used on all sites for current models. The photos are currently being replaced one by one, and details will be explained in the future, including the rules for creating new sites.
I am sure Panasonic isn’t going to make these kind of errors anymore…
Lumix S9 preorder links:
US&CA at Amazon, BHphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Panasonic US shop
EU at FotoErhardt, FotoKoch, Calumet, WexUK, Panasonic UK shop.
18-40mm and 26mm reorder links:
18-40mm f/4.5-6.3 at BHphoto, WexUK.
26mm f/8.0 at BHphoto, Adorama, Panasonic US, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, Calumet, WexUK, Panasonic UK.
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Gerald Undone vs Panasonic controversy
As you all know Influencers get early access from companies. The question is how this influences the honesty of their reviews. Gerald Undone shared his “bad” experience with Panasonic. He complains the marketing team wasn’t happy with his S5 review and therefore was cut out from the announcement loop. But at the same time he says Panasonic told him the S9 was not a kind of camera he would like to review…so Panasonic actually came back to him and this is what makes the story a bit unclear to me.
Sean Robinson answered “indirectly” to Gerald in this video:
And also Chris and Jordan from Dpreview shared their opinion:
CineD also gave a very honest feedback:
What are your thoughts on this?
You can now install the new Panasonic LUMIX Lab
You can now install it from the Google Play store.
Our read Ryan told me:
After playing with it I see the app gives you the ability to share any downloaded LUTs using the standard Android share menu. This means you can email them or upload them to cloud storage like Google Drive. Then you can use them in desktop apps (Photoshop, Resolve, etc) or copy them to cameras not currently supported by the Lab App.
