Panasonic Lumix S5 FullFrame Mirrorless Camera with Lumix S 20-60mm Lens, DC-S5K, 3x Optical Zoom, Black

I guess we are in the Sony era of cameras for mirrorless bodies - with great lens options and autofocus making it hugely popular with YouTube content creators. This has also meant that Sony can command a price premium for features - a7c which is a 3 year old a7iii in a smaller body is more expensive than a Lumix s 5. Yes, the Sony E mount lens selection is amazing ( Finding Panasonic L mount lenses is expensive and sometimes impossible, at least online in India), and the autofocus works like the subject had magnetic powers on the Sony. But the image? I've been blown away by the Panasonic. It offers 10 bit 422 upto 60fps in camera, in v-log. Grading it in resolve is a breeze(you need to buy resolve studio for editing 10 bit footage). Has excellent ergonomics and touch menu system, with rugged build. And the autofocus though not magic, is not bad at all. For photography, it is excellent, and for videos, it's more than enough for amateurs like me. Maybe for a commercial do or die shoot one wouldn't trust it, but is otherwise perfectly normal. But this isn't the clincher for Panasonic. The clincher is the company's support via firmware updates. They add features to a 5 year old gh5 through firmware updates, to make it even more powerful. The 2 year old Lumix s1 got updates to get vlog on it, and then to match the S5's latest specs. The 8 month old Lumix S5 has got an update to Blackmagic Raw recording via an external recorder, in 6K 12 bit 444 raw, apart from the January update which gave it the same capabilities in Prores Raw. Except for the 30 minute time limits on 10 bit footage, it has identical recording specs(same sensor too) to the twice as expensive S1H, which is a Netflix approved camera! And except for 4k in higher framerates, it matches the A7s3's recording specs too, at half the price. Panasonic is a company a) dedicated to video b) dedicated to video quality (that's why they do not adopt the phase detect AF since it requires dedicated pixels on the sensors. They would rather use it for the image) and c) they do not use the 'cripple hammer'. Brands generally want to keep their highest priced cameras differentiated (reason why Sony a7c still has only 8 bit), but Panasonic is mad enough to give the S5 the same features as the S1H and piss off the S1H owners who paid twice the cost :D. In my opinion the only reason to not go Panasonic is the L mount. Their lenses are very high quality, and therefore very expensive and availability is limited in India. I went for only the S5 body and got the 24-105 ois f4 lens which is the kit lens for the S1 and S1H. It has a wide focal range, constant aperture, OIS(no gimbals for me!) and is parfocal for video shooting! It's expensive, but can be the only lens you will ever need. The S5 then became a no brainer. Loving it.

Best 4k 60fps camera in its price, 6k over hdmi and 10 bit colors, full frame censor, flip out screen, anamorphic support what else one could want.... crazy stabilization and AF has been improved in this model.

I often use the Lumix S5 as a B-camera to the Blackmagic 6k Pro. Shoot in V-Log and colour transform to Blackmagic Gen 5 in DaVinci Resolve. The colours match pretty well with the 6K Pro in good lighting scenarios. I don't rely on auto focus, but what I can say is that the S5 doesn't perform well. But, then again, I don't use AF. In good lighting situations set the f-stop appropriately and keep the subject in place. For photos, it's great. One reason why I didn't buy another Blackmagic camera as a b-cam is because I wanted to do photos as well. The S5 has a great price under $1,950 CAD NEW. If you find the camera more than that that the seller is scamming you.

I have been using this for at least two years. The stand out features of this is the video quality, and IBIS. I primarily use this for video in 10 bit. The good I do not have overheating issues when shooting in 10 bit mode, though in 90F heat I do feel it get noticeably warm after an hour. I have not had it shut down on me. The battery is typically safe for 1:30 of 10 bit footage (1:45 or 1:50 total possibly) when using the LCD. Using 3rd party batteries there is at least 15% less run time on average. When comparing against the Sony A7, there is the light weight construction (sony is no different) control ergonomics (something sony lacks) and control options (way better than sony). The video quality is better than my D850. I have at least four video profiles set up on my camera depending on the situation, but you can have more under C3 by going through the menu. I have shot it in (almost) complete darkness and was able to get usable footage after some light cleaning (flat profile). For sound, the auto limit works and keeps things from clipping. The 20-60mm lens is pretty good as a kit video lens for most things. It has a sharpness falloff after 35mm or so, but most of my use is at 20mm. The LCD screen can be customized to your liking with multiple options. There are several profiles to choose from, and you can additionally tweak most of them. I use Cine-D for outside, Natural for indoors, Flat for low light and the last one is the 8 bit mode in 709 for long shooting. Lots of control here. No issues with Auto-focus when shooting pictures. Having the options to choose either e-shutter or mechanical is an advantage when you want to shoot silently. Fun with manual focus lenses with focus peaking enabled along with IBIS. The not so great Battery life indicator does not have % indication. This makes it difficult to tell if you have 5 more minites of video life left or 30 seconds, when running thr battery down. Though normally getting the battery that low to begin with is bad practice. The supplied charger is no good. It takes too long, costs too much and takes up more space than needed. I use the XTAR 4 bay charger to charge multiple batteries. So the auto focus can hunt some times, which typically happens when there is low light (when you're at iso 12800). This can happen with rapid subject changes too. This isn't news. It's typically not an issue most of the time in normal light with subject tracking enabled. The built in sound pre-amps are good enough, but external recorders will be cleaner. I never use the built-in microphones. When taking pictures, the D850 is clearly better. The Nikon has a better grip, even if bigger and heavier, for my hands. The grip on the S5 hurts my hand after extensive shooting. Buffer depth is not high enough on the S5 for my liking, though it's fine once you put a V90 card in. My biggest annoyance is that the Nikon gives me all of the options that I need to tune the Jpeg output where it's perfect out of the camera, but this isn't the case with the Panasonic. What the Panasonic is missing is a separate brightness option, that allows me to pull down shadows in a specific way while boosting highlights without clipping everything. In Raw, I more or less can get there - obviously slightly different due to being different brands. Exposure drift on static objects. When using auto-iso in video on a static scene the camera will sometimes start to overexpose by two stops for some reason. Switching to manual iso drops you all the way to the base, which ruins the footage. Dialing in exposure compensation while this starts to happen is an experience of chasing your own tail. This is with the latest firmware. The USB-C port on my camera does not work off external power when recording. I verified this with a USB power meter. I use a dummy battery with a USB-C connector in to a battery. This runs without issue except when the battery gets depleted, which causes an abrupt end to the video corrupting it - Panasonic provides a software tool to rescue your footage and it does work. Battery grip tax. Some brands charge obscene amounts of money for battery grips, which is mainly plastic and some wires, and Panasonic is no different. Other The electronic image stabilization can introduce artifacts in to your footage, but this is expected behavior. While the IBIS does work, it's not magic and shaky footage will still be ruined. I like controls to be lockable against accidental changes, this is a feature of typically expensive DSLRs for pro's. One thing that can happen is that the switches might move. The focus switch might get changed, or your burst mode selector type (leftmost dial) might switch to a different burst mode without realizing it. This is typically a risk when you have the camera hanging off while you walk around - from repeated brushing up against clothes. Versus the S5 II and X Looking at the specifications, the main stand out feature for me is the ability to record 10 bit without a time limit. I have lost some moments because I was not paying enough attention, granted that is ultimately my fault. The second attractive feature is the larger buffer for taking images. With this I would not need to keep V90 cards just for pictures and keep the large capacity V30 cards for video in the camera. The better auto focus comes with a cost, mainly reduced ability to pull up shadows due to banding. This S5 does not have banding. But I suspect for most this will be the main desired feature.

Sin duda es una cámara con muchas posibilidades, los colores son muy buenos, el autofoco de Panasonic nunca ha sido su fuerte pero en particular siempre he trabajado con foco manual, entonces no representa un problema grabe, aunque en estabilizadores puede facilitar mucho el trabajo. Pero en particular me gusto mucho esta cámara tiene herramientas muy buenas y la calidad de imagen compite con cualquier otra del Mercado. Panasonic siempre va adelante en las prestaciones de color y calidad de imagen.

El mejor diseño de las tres marcas que comparten la montura "L" (Leica, Panasonic y Sigma). El mejor precio también. No le doy 5 estrellas por que el manual es incomprensible; hay ajustes que no se explican y se necesita guía para poder hacerlos. Tuve que preguntar en foros de usuarios en Internet. El peor manual de cámara que he tenido. Todavía hay dos ajustes que no entiendo. Por lo demás la cámara es buena, enfoca rápido y tiene buen sensor. No me gusta su ergonomía y distribución de los controles. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Edición a casi cuatro meses de tener la cámara. Por fin me he acostumbrado al paradigma de ergonomía y diseño; me costó muchas horas de estudio de la cámara pero debo decir que los controles están muy bien posicionados y permiten hacer ajustes "al vuelo" sin necesidad de quitar el ojo del visor. Tiene muchas características difíciles de encontrar pero, si es uno persistente, a fin de cuentas se encuentran esos pequeños tesoros escondidos. Uno que cuando lo pude manejar sin tener que mirar los menús es la posibilidad de hacer una serie de tomas con un compás de exposición que lleva solo un segundo y puede uno ajustarlo con facilidad desde 3 hasta 7 exposiciones y con separación a 1/3, 2/3 o 1 "stop" sin despegar el ojo del visor. Una gema! Entre los "huevos de pascua" escondidos hay otro que es un indicador de estabilidad que nos permite saber como anda nuestro pulso y si los estabilizadores de la cámara y el lente lo pueden corregir. Como esto hay docenas de "monerías" con las que puede uno configurar una cámara que nos quede como un guante. Tengo que corregir mi calificación a 4.5 (que no me permite el sistema) quedándome unicamente e4l resabio de que el auto-enfoque podría ser mucho mejor, ya que tiende a titubear pero aún me queda mucho por explorar en el sentido de los ajustes para encontrar personas o mascotas. Corolario: una ganga y una gran cámara para casi cualquier aplicación. Puede ser grande en el estudio haciendo retratos o fotografía de producto, ya que EMHO 24mp es más que suficiente para necesidades profesionales; al mismo tiempo puede ser una gran tomadora de fotos cándidas en la calle (aunque su tamaño puede intimidar a los sujetos) y también una herramienta perfecta para paisajes o foto urbana. Para lo único que no la recomiendo es para viajar, es enorme y pesada; para eso hay una pléyade de cámaras en formatos de sensor pequeños pero capaces como es el Micro 4/3 o el APS-C o iclusive una Leica full frame que mide y pesa una fracción de esta.

This is one of the reason you won’t find many reviews online about this camera. The camera I got was very defective battery, problem, dropping frames, and the worse part it’s that I try it to return it to the seller(camera canada) and they won’t take it back. Don’t recommend the camera or buying from camera Canadá.