At the same event where we've had the chance to take a very quick look at Panasonic's first consumer-grade 3D camcorder, we've also spent some time with another important novelty, namely the Lumix GH2, which, as you will certainly remember, has just been unveiled at this year's Photokina.

Unfortunately, the GH2 was not accompanied by the famous 3D lens (that will certainly become this particular Lumix model's main selling point), but even so, we've managed to get a pretty good idea of what this tiny camera can do.

So, while the GH2 is indeed an interesting device, the truth of the matter is that its improvements (compared to the rest of the G series, of course), are not that spectacular, but rather evolutionary, just the thing we'd expected, given the current standards on this market.

One of the really interesting features we've been able to test was the newly developed Multi Aspect Wide Screen LVF (Live View Finder), as well as the large 3.0-inch 460,000-dot high-resolution Intelligent LCD that can rotate 180 degrees side to side and tilt 270 degrees up and down and allows users to touch the subject on the LCD to adjust AF and that works very well, providing a good images at any angles, as well as a very good level of sensitivity.

Also notable, AF tracking managed to do a pretty nifty job in all lighting conditions, while the video recording function (Full HD) also went pretty smoothly, with the quality of the video and audio provided by the stereo microphones located on the top side being quite impressive.

Of course, we're only talking about the camera's own playback system here, but we're pretty sure things will go OK as well as far as playback on a computer or HDTV is concerned.

All in all, we can say that that, at least at a first sight, the Panasonic GH2 is a worthy successor of the other models in the G series, one which will truly enjoy success when paired with the company's 3D lens.