GH5S vs GH5 Comparison ► Which One Is Right For You?
Photo Moment - January 09, 2018
What are the differences between the LUMIX GH5 and the new GH5S Video Recording Digital Mirrorless Camera? In one hand, the GH5S' lowlight performance is improved… and in the other there's no IBIS. It seems like this camera was designed for a specialized use. With so many amazing cameras to choose from, which one is right for you?
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IBS is Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Dear sir I want to make feature film is this camera is suitable for big screen feature film without distortion. Pls must reply
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Why gh5S you'd ask. Just because I don't keep taking videos all the time, doesn't make it any less important. While I won't be taking videos all the time, I still would have occasions I'd love to shoot video and for my interests - first person with quite a bit of panning like I'm on a roller coaster or swing or something, the excellent rolling shutter performance of gh5s is at home. Also a part of the reason why I have not explored video till now is because my current device - OnePlus 3 is pleb tier at that. Also the multi aspect sensor (I'm always a sucker for the benefits that a larger area of illumination brings). I'm more of a 60fps guy as well and the better high ISO performance would be really handy in those situation.
Here are some photos I took on my OnePlus 3's limited sensor - mostly handheld long exposures to compensate for the low light incapability of the camera. https://www.flickr.com/photos/94577550@N08/
I can totally understand that g9 is a camera more suited to photography professionals - faster autofocus, faster burst speeds. But my type of photography needs is not that. I'm not much into wildlife photography, wedding photography or anything of that fast action type. I'm more into stopping down and taking photos (consider my photographic tastes to things you can do with a film camera). Most of the time I'm into manual focus so my subjects are fairly slow. The two things that do interest me about g9 are better 6.5stops IBIS and the ultra high res mode. Honestly I don't think I'm into that ultra high res mode when it comes to how much things I shoot. I'm not sure I'd be willing to give up better 60fps video at low light (owing to better higher iso performance) and better rolling shutter performance for IBIS. And considering that I have fairly stable hands and not into vlogging and such I don't think I'd miss ibis much (I may be wrong). I'm into video as much as I'm into stills, just less frequent. I was just wondering, if gh5s is that much worse than gh5/g9 at stills apart from the lower res which I believe I can be perfectly fine with provided it doesn't have huge grain or aberrations.
Would the gh5s please me? Should I be worried about lack of ibis. From what I heard, actually ibis can make things worse at times (for things similar to my use case). Thanks.
The only comparison I could do for now is through dpreview. I wouldn't bet much on this since it was JPEG and the colour saturation was quite different between the two. However, even in this I'd recommend you to set the iso to 3200, fit the two images and compare. Gh5s resolved noticeably better than gh5. I'm not sure if this is just oversharpening but I'm pretty sure that gh5 details got completely smeared (best example is to look at the bottle cap and the reflections bouncing off of it or faces/teeth or the grasses). Colour cast is hard to compare but I liked gh5s better than gh5 for the most part except that it was a bit darker all the time. Now bump the iso down to 400 and compare. The hilights on gh5s was better than gh5 but I'm not sure if it's just the jpeg algorithm. iso 1600 was an oddball for some reason I can't understand. The native iso for this camera are iso 400 and 2500, for gh5 it is iso 400.. so it works better to compare at iso 400 and iso 3200. One thing I'm worried about is the moire - you can see a bit of that in the circles adjacent to the bottle (that is the number 8 square if you follow the order of numpads).
No IBIS... That's a huge huge perk to the GH5
10MP vs 20MP photos...
But its nice to see that the 240fps actually looks like 1080p vs the more usable 120fps in the GH5
I don't see many people choosing to pay more for the GH5s and getting 'less'.
But don't get me wrong, the GH5s is a nice addition the to Indy film industry!
M43 in today's market is a solid investment choice!
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