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PANASONIC GH5S USER REVIEW
S CLASS! Panasonic’s impressive new GH5S is aimed squarely at pro filmmakers
WORDS AND PICTURES ADAM DUCKWORTH
There’s also Panasonic’s Dual Native ISO technology as used in its far larger and more pricey Varicam and EVA1 cinema cameras. This system reads the chip in two different ways and each has a different native ISO. So one setting has a lower native ISO of 400 for maximum dynamic range and the other is at higher 2500 ISO but aimed at minimising noise. To aid the filmmaker for multi camera shooting, there is a Timecode In/Out port. While the GH5 was the first mirrorless camera to offer 4K video recording at 60fps, the GH5S goes a small step further by offering it in the slightly larger Cinema 4K format thanks to a slightly larger sensor. This larger sensor also affects the angle of view, although only very slightly. The GH5S now records 14-bit Raw stills files instead of the 12-bit files
ony may have got the ball rolling by offering a video-focused version of its mirrorless camera in the A7S, but Panasonic has smashed it out of the park with the impressive new GH5S aimed squarely at filmmakers with no compromises. It may have a sensor roughly a quarter the size of full-frame and only 10.2 megapixels, but the GH5S is far from just another mirrorless camera paying lip-service to filmmaking. Like Sony’s full-frame A7S II, video performance is paramount and the low pixel count makes for larger pixels which handle noise better and make for less rolling shutter. Panasonic now has a definite split in its G-series. Its G9 is for the still photographer who only occasionally shoots video; the GH5 for users who put equal weighting to stills and moving
images; the GH5S for filmmakers who occasionally shoot stills. While the G9 and GH5 share the same 20-megapixel sensor, the GH5S is based on the recent GH5 but now comes with an obvious red Video Record button on the top plate and uses an all-new high-sensitivity Live MOS sensor. This reaches a new high for Panasonic of 51,200 ISO which can be expanded to 204,800. PANASONIC HAS SMASHED IT OUT OF THE PARK WITH THE IMPRESSIVE GH5S
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