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BELOW There is a very clear size difference between the Panasonic S5 and S1H, but both have the same sensor
“Designed for filmmaking are two cameras fromPanasonic: the Lumix S1H and newer S5, which share the vastmajority of spec”
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The Sigma fp at £2000/$1799 is a tiny camera with a full-frame sensor and Leica L-mount that shoots Raw internally to SD cards. It has waveforms and easy access to picture profiles. But, equally, there are things it lacks, like a tilting or folding screen, audio monitoring via headphones, and phase detect autofocus. The £1999/$1997 Nikon Z 6II is a reworked version of the original 24.5-megapixel Z 6, but now features dual card slots, better AF, USB-C charging and a forthcoming upgrade ALSO CONSIDER…
Panasonic: the Lumix S1H and newer S5. When the S1H was launched, it smashed it out of the park for filmmaking duties with its 6K recording, high bit rates, quality codec choices and fan-cooled body to avoid any overheating. Then, around a year later, Panasonic followed it up with the smaller and more affordable S5, which shares the vast majority of the spec of the bigger camera and its full-frame sensor. There’s no fan cooling on the S5 and maximum native resolution is capped at 4K instead of 6K, for example. But they share V-Log colour gamma, full LUT support, anamorphic shooting and HLG colour. Both have a dual native ISO sensor which bases at 640 and 4000 ISO in Log. Each one also has waveformmonitoring, five-axis in-body image stabilisation, plus 180fps HD recording. The S1H offers all-Intra codec, while the S5 uses more compressed Long GOP format which it records to twin SD cards. In some codecs the recording time is 30 minutes, as it doesn’t have the cooling fan of the S1H built in. After a firmware upgrade, both cameras have identical contrast-detect AF performance, which is the key area where they can’t keep up with Sony and Canon’s more advanced phase-detect systems. The S1H is a bigger and chunkier camera with significant advantages over the S5. But it’s hard to fault the lower- spec Lumix, as it has the most important features and an asking price that’s way less. The S5 is a mini S1H at around half the cost, in the body of a GH5. You can’t go wrong with either.
to 4K/60p. It also outputs ProRes Raw to an Atomos recorder. If you want a Super35-size sensor, the £1549/$1699 Fujifilm X-T4 is as good as it gets. It has a fully articulating screen, five-axis in-body image stabilisation, and addictive 240fps HD super slow-motion which allows the AF system to stay in play. It can also record 10-bit internally 4K in bit rates up to 400Mbps and frame rates up to 60fps, with good F-Log gamma for a wide dynamic range.
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