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EDITOR’S CHOICE: PANASONIC S5 The Panasonic Lumix S5 is the Editor’s Choice mirrorless
HLG colour for easy HDR. And a dual native ISO sensor, which bases at 640 and 4000 ISO when shooting Log. There is also waveform monitoring, five-axis in-body image stabilisation, speedy 180fps HD recording and 10-bit internal video capture in a wide range of codecs. It’s a stunner at a great price.
The Lumix S5 has the same sensor as the flagship S1H, and while it’s true the S5 doesn’t have everything the S1H has, it still retains a huge amount of the spec and tools. It offers V-Log like the S1H and Panasonic Varicam cinema cameras, full LUT support and anamorphic shooting with an in-camera de-squeeze, plus
this year. It offers lots of the spec of the flagship
Panasonic S1H, but in a body that’s much smaller and at a more affordable price. For those who have been asking for a full-frame version of the legendary Panasonic GH5, this is it.
“The Blackmagic UrsaMini Pro G2 remains one of the best-performing andmost affordable cinema cameras”
range. It also uses Blackmagic Raw, which allows the camera to shoot in up to 300fps in some codecs. If you want full sensor 4.6K images, you can go as high as 120fps, while windowed 4K DCI and 4Kmaxes out at 150fps and windowed 2K DCI and 1080 HD gives the headline 300fps, all in Blackmagic Raw. One of the by-products of the lockdown has been the explosion in streaming, so it’s perhaps fitting that the award for the Camcorder category once again goes to JVC’s HC500. Although the Canon XF705 won a legion of fans thanks to its advanced technology, the far more affordable HC500 got themost votes.
outstanding dynamic range, all recorded to twin CFexpress cards. In the Cinema Camera category, there has been a flurry of new arrivals, such as the Canon EOS C500 Mark II and C300Mark III, as well as the Sony FX9. But proving you don’t need a full-frame sensor to be the new kid on the block, the Super 35 Blackmagic Ursa Mini Pro G2 takes the honours for a second consecutive year. That’s because it remains one of the best-performing, most affordable cinema cameras you can buy, with very fast frame rates and a 4.6K HDR image sensor that gives up to 15 stops of dynamic
It features a one-inch 4K CMOS sensor, plus a 20x lens with traditional three-ring control, a high-resolution viewfinder, it can record up to 12 stops of dynamic range, and there is HDR and HLG colour. It also records to SSDs in 10-bit ProRes 422 at 4K in 50/60p and offers class-leading connectivity, with live streaming, FTP file transfer and remote camera control – as you’d expect from JVC. It’s one company that really takes streaming seriously, and this award is clear proof this is working.
ABOVE The Sony A7S III, JVC HC500 and Blackmagic Ursa Mini Pro G2 are all winners this year
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