Panasonic has just announced the  Panasonic Lumix S5 which is their
latest
smallest and also lightest full-frame
mirrors camera
i have been testing a production sample
of the Panasonic Lumix S5
over the last month or two and shot
about 500-600 gigabyte of
photos and videos with the Lumix S5
so in this video i'm going to share with
you some of my thoughts,
my real world shooting experience and
also
my test results that i have done over
the last month or two with this
Panasonic Lumix S5.
If you think the s5 is just a
smaller or downgrade version of the
Panasonic Lumix S1
it is not true at all yes there are some
certain feature that is missing or
downgraded compared to the S1
but there are also many new features or
improvements if you compare to S1 for
both photographer
and videographers in some way i feel
it's more like
a mini S1h especially when s5
received its next firmware update later
this year
i will talk about the firmware update as
well later in this video
Kia Ora! Good Morning everyone Richard Wong
here! Welcome back to the channel
in this video i'm going to talk about
the latest full-frame camera from
Panasonic and it is the Panasonic Lumix S5
i remember when the Panasonic Lumix S1, S1R
was released just a bit over a year ago
one of the biggest complaint that some
people have is
the size and the weight of those cameras
are
too big and they have been asking for a
smaller
lighter version of that camera so this
is
the answer from panasonic. The
Panasonic Lumix S5
is the smallest and lightest full frame
camera from Panasonic
let me just remove the lens from the
body
just look at the size of the lens month
compared to the body
you will know that this is a much
smaller camera.The launch price of the
s5
is pretty much the same as the sony A7III
or the Nikon z6 because
if you compare the size or the specs of
this camera with those two cameras
they are very similar so they probably
would be the direct competitor
with each other so i have also got the
nikon
set six and the sony a73 here so
in this review i'm going to do some
comparison
between these three cameras and also i
will talk about some of the difference
between the
s5 and the bigger brother s1
just to compare what are the feature the
difference between
this one and all the other three cameras
so
this review will probably be pretty long
because i have been working on this
review over the last month or so i've
done a lot of
testing so i got a lot of information
and test results that i'm going to
share with you guys so i don't really
know how long this review will be
hopefully it's not going to be two hours
long
but i am going to create a uh index for
this video so if you are only interested
in part of this review you can just look
at the video description which i should
have
put a time index for the different
topics you can just directly skip to the
topic that you are most interested in
and also try not to make this video
super long
i have also separated out some of the
discussion and test results into
separate videos i have created a video
that is
really about vlogging i have a autofocus
test video and
also have another video that shows you
the high iso difference
between these cameras so if you're
interested in those topics you can check
out
those other videos on my channel i would
put a link below or just click on my
channel and you can find the other
videos
okay let's start by talking about the
build quality and design
of the camera the Panasonic Lumix S5 it has
a magnesium alloy body that is
splash proof and dustproof just like the
S1
but it is not freeze proof so the S1
is freeze proof but not the s5 the
size wise it is quite a bit smaller than
the s1 and also the weight is also quite
a bit lighter
the weight of the s5 is only around 700gram
or so
while the s1 is over one kilogram so
that's right
around 30 also lighter than the
S1 if you compare the size of the s5
with the Nikon z6 and the Sony A7III
they are very similar size the
S5 is probably somewhere between the two
the Nikon Z6 is the largest one
and the Sony A7III is a little bit smaller but
the difference is
not really big in terms of ergonomics
i would say the Panasonic Lumix S5 is pretty similar
to the Z6 holding it and
pressing all the dials and buttons it
feels very good it feels pretty much as
good as
the s1 and the z6 is also a very good
in terms of ergonomic design is also
excellent
and i actually prefer the grip on the Z6
a little bit more than the one on the S5
but having said that the S5 grip is
still pretty decent and
decent size slightly smaller than the S1
but
i think for most people if you don't
have a super big hand i think
holding it it's still pretty comfortable
and
i would say that a7iii is probably the
worst in terms of ergonomic compared to
the other
two camera for example the grip just
never feel
right to me even though i don't really
have a big hand
one thing i was a bit surprised is that
the size of the s5 is actually smaller
than the Lumix GH5. The GH5 is a bit taller
wider and deeper and is also heavier
than the s5
i think panasonic has done a pretty good
job shrinking down
the s1 into the size of s5
while retaining most of the controls
and the ergonomics there are few things
that is missing on the s5
if you compare it with the s1 for
example
there's no top status screen and also it
doesn't have the
PC sync port and there are one or two
buttons that is missing but
most of the important controls are still
there
on the panasonic lumix s5 there's one
thing that to me it's definitely an
improvement if you compare to the s1
and that is the power switch the power
switch on the Lumix s5
is the one that is very similar to the
gh5
just next to this dial here that allow
me to turn on the camera very easily
even if i'm just holding it single hand
compared to the s1 which has the dial
somewhere here a lot smaller
which is a lot harder to um power on the
camera
if you are just holding it one hand to
me this is definitely one of the
ergonomic improvement if you compare to
the s1
and apart from missing the pc sync port
it has pretty much
all the input and output ports that the
s1 has
it has the headphone jack it has the
microphone jack it has the usb port
it has the hdmi port and also the remote
port
and it also has the bluetooth and wi-fi
so in terms of connectivity
it is pretty much the same as the s1
however
one thing that i'm a little bit
disappointed is the hdmi port on the s5
is a micro hdmi unlike the s1 which used
the full size
hdmi which is quite a bit stronger
i normally wouldn't complain too much
for a camera like s5 that doesn't have a
full-size
hdmi port but because of the upcoming
firmware update which i'll talk about
very soon i really wish
the s5 does have a full-size hdmi port
having said that both the nikon z6 and
the sony a7III they
don't have the full size hdmi port
either
the usb port on the S5 is a usb 3.1 with
the
c connector just like the s1 and they
also support usb
power and also usb charging overall the
ergonomics and design of the panasonic
lumix s5
is very good and also the body
feels very solid pretty much just like
the panasonic lumix S1
while the camera is not exactly designed
for professional
users but i feel most professional
photographers if they have to pick up
this camera
and use it to do their job it shouldn't
be a
problem at all in the past i have to use
a panasonic lumix S1 to
shoot some weddings and that was
fantastic and i can definitely use a s5
to shoot wedding very comfortably
On the side of the camera we have the
memory card slots here
so there are two memory card slots just
like the s1
but the s1 has one cf express
and one sd card while the s5 has the
both of them are sd card slots i feel
most of the user that this s5 is
targeting
probably would prefer to have dual sd
instead of
one cf express and one sd because
they don't have to buy any new memory
card they just can use the existing
sd card slot however there's one thing
that i'm a bit disappointed is
only one of the card slot is the high
speed
UHS-II while the other one is just the
slower UHS-I slot and
the reason i'm disappointed is because
even the GH5 which
was released how many years like three
years ago
that one already has dual UHS-II card
S5 only has one UHS-II card that makes me a
bit disappointed
if you compare it with the A7iii it also
has
dual sd card slot and also only one of
them
is UHS-II and the Z6
it only has one memory card slot so it's
probably
not too bad if you compare to those two
however
the new nikon set five it does have
two sd card slot and both of them are
UHS-II
at the back of the camera at the top we
have the electronic viewfinder here
which has the 0.74x magnification
and the resolution is 2.34
million dots so in terms of resolution
it is quite a bit lower than the EVF
on the s1 or the nikon z6
and i can tell the evf is not as high
resolution as
the s1 or the z6
but on the other hand the color
of the evf is very nice and it also
can support up to 120 frames per second
refresh
speed and the picture quality of the evf
is also
very good if i compare the s5
with the sony a7iii which according to
the specs
they should be very similar but i
definitely prefer
s5 evf because the image looks quite a
bit sharper
the color looks better and also smoother
than the evf
on the sony a73 i remember when
panasonic announced that s1
one thing a lot of people complained
about was the design of the lcd screen
the s1 and s1 are using that
free access tilting lcd screen design
while other people would want to have
the fully articulated screen
that the same one like the gh5 and many
other panasonic
numix mirrors cameras so with the s5
panasonic also give you
the 4d tutti freaky screen just like the
s1
h so that probably should make
a lot of people happy especially
video shooter who would much prefer this
fully tilty flippy screen compared to
the free access one which is more
designed for photographers and
interestingly that makes
the s5 the only camera here
that has the tt 3p screen because the
z6 and also the a7 3 they both only have
a very simple
vertical tilting screen just like pretty
much all the other mirrors camera in the
market the s5 also has a mechanical and
also
electronic shutter the mechanical
shutter the fastest
shutter speed is one over 8 000 seconds
with the electronic shutter the fastest
shutter speed is also 1 over 8 000
seconds and the slowest shutter speed
you can go
down to 60 seconds or you can go to the
bulb
mode if you want to go slower so this is
a big
improvement compared to the micro four
third camera g5 or g9 which only has a
one second slowest shutter speed with
the electronic shutter
one difference between the s5 and the s1
is s1
shutter is rated at 400 000 and
i don't think s5 shutter is the same and
it also has a slightly slower
fresh sync speed at 1/250 seconds
next thing i want to talk about the
battery and it is pretty interesting
the s5 it has a new battery
completely new design which is the blk22
i said it is interesting not only
because
it is a new design but because this
battery
is backward compatible with the gh5
but the gh5 battery is not forward
compatible with the panasonic Lumix s5
and what that means is you can use this
new battery on your panasonic Lumix
gh5 or gh4 or g3 or g9
but the battery that comes with your gh5
you can not use it on the s5
even the shape of the battery you cannot
physically
fit the gh5 battery on the s5
if you look at the battery there are
actually two connectors or say two group
of connector there's one
group here and there's another group at
the top here
so this connectors here is mainly
designed for the backward compatibility
so that you can use it on the gh5 and
other older camera
that will be using this type of
connectors
while you use it on the s5 and possibly
the other
future camera that is coming then it
will be using
the connectors here the capacity of this
battery is about 20%
larger than the gh5 battery so that
means
if you are a gh5 owner you could
buy this battery and use it on your g5
and you have a 20%
in theory longer battery life i have
actually not done a test to see how many
photos i can short
with a single battery but the battery
life seems to be
very good it seems to last very very
long time
according to the official figures the s5
battery life when you are taking photo
using the lcd screen
is approximately 10 longer than the
s1 and if you are shooting using the
electronic viewfinder it is even up to
around 25 better than the s1 so
that is definitely very impressive
because the s1 is supposed to
have a much bigger battery so i don't
know how
but the s5 the battery life is
even better than the s1 but while i
haven't done any battery life tests
for taking photos i have done a test
not intentionally to do a battery life
test but
i did a overheat test which i'm going to
talk about
very soon and when i do that test i
start with a completely charged battery
and i was recording 4k 60p
video at the 10 bit output and in the
end the battery lasts about 2.5
hours that seems to be pretty impressive
because 4k 60 at 10 bit
is probably the most power consuming
mode that you can run
on the s5 when it comes to accessories
the s5 there is a optional fully
functional
battery grip that you can get for people
who want to
either have a vertical grip or want to
have one
extra battery to extend the battery life
and you can also use the xlr1
which is the xlr audio adapter with the
s5
but unlike the Lumix s1 you cannot
record the high resolution audio on this
camera
the Panasonic Lumix s5 has a full frame
24.2 megapixel sensor without
low pass filter and it also uses a dual
native iso
design which i believe is the same
sensor as the panasonic numix s1
and it also shares the same processor as
the
s1 so in terms of image quality which
i'm going to show you some result a
little bit later on when it comes to the
image quality test
it should be very similar to the s1 but
you can check out the result
very soon one thing i found is different
to the s1 though
is the image sensor cleaning feature
with the s1 or pretty much all the
Panasonic
camera that i've used in the past when
you use
the um enable the sensor cleaning you
don't actually
hear or feel anything you may hear some
slightly
high-pitched rubbishing noise but other
than that you don't really know that the
sensor is actually doing the sensor
cleaning but with the s5
i feel there is quite a strong pausing
when you enable the sensor cleaning i'm
just about to
enable the sensor cleaning
there is a much stronger housing
vibration that i can feel when i trigger
the sensor cleaning on the Lumix S5
unfortunately there's no way for me to
actually test
whether it is improved compared to the
s1 but
it does feel much stronger vibration so
i feel
it's probably better than the one on the
s1 the overall feeling is actually very
similar to the sensor cleaning function
on the a7 3 which also has quite strong
pausing
while the size of the s5 is quite a bit
smaller than the s1
it still has the in body image
stabilizer or the ibis
and it is still a 5-axis one
i don't think it is exactly the same as
the one on the S1 because
if you look at the official figures the
rating of this ibis is
slightly lower than the one on the s1
for the ibis just by the ips itself
it is five stop effective compared to
the s1 which the official figure is
six stops and if you attach it with a
compatible
lens that has the ois and that means you
can now enjoy the dual is-2
the dual is-2 on the s5 is 6.5 stop
compared to the s1 which is
7 stop i did some testing to see how
effective the ibis is when you are
taking photos
so after shooting a couple hundred
photos
at different settings my result seems to
suggest the ibis
is around four to five stop effective
which is pretty impressive for uh ibis
only image stabilization the next thing
i'm going to talk about
is probably the most controversial
subject every time when it comes to the
panasonic cameras
and you know what it is it is the
autofocus
the s5 using the dfd autofocus
system which panasonic has been using
for a long long time
so it supports up to 480 frames per
second operation
and the fastest autofocus speed
according to panasonic is
0.08 second which is very fast and when
i test it with the kit lens
which is this one which is probably not
the fastest
lens in terms of the autofocus speed but
still the autofocus speed i find
it is pretty decent and pretty fast and
also there's
not much hunting when it's trying to
lock on to the target when i'm shooting
in
the af-s mode there are a couple of
pretty big improvements when it comes to
the autofocus system
on the s5 and one of them is when you
are taking photo
in afc mode with the previous panasonic
lumix s
series camera when you are shooting in
the afc
mode even when you
are at a stationary position and you
are just trying to lock on a target
which also doesn't move
you will probably notice there is quite
a bit
of background pausing even when nothing
is moving
at all with the s5 this is much improved
if the camera and the target they are
both stationary
and even if you half click the shutter
button
you will notice there is a lot less
background browsing compared to the
previous panasonic lumix s camera
i'm not saying there's no background
browsing but if you look at
this comparison footage one is shown on
the
s1h even using the latest firmware
and one is the s5 using uh actually
earlier firmware than the one i have
right now the s5
the background housing is a lot less
than the s1 h
while i don't really know whether the
background posing would affect the
accuracy when you are taking photo in
afc mode
that definitely is a bit annoying when
you are
just trying to target and especially
when you're looking through the wheel
finder
that is quite noticeable so i'm really
glad that panasonic managed to
heavily reduce the amount of background
processing when you are taking photo
in the afc mode and in terms of actually
tracking
subject when you are taking photo in afc
mode here is a
quick test that i did using the kit lens
i
zoom into the maximum focal length which
is 60 mil
and i also shoot at the maximum aperture
which is 5.6
so this is not a very fast aperture so
probably not the
toughest auto focus test but look at the
photos every single one of the photo
the camera now the focus and i have
actually repeated this test about 10
times
and every single photo is in focus
so that is definitely not bad at all and
panasonic has also
improved his ai tracking the s5 can
detect your body
or face from a much further distance
and when i was moving around quickly
the camera can follow me much faster
and a lot closer to my actual movement
it is also a lot more reliable so
even if your subject is turning
the face around or have something that
is partially blocking
his face or her face or if the subject
is
go off center the camera would still
try to follow the subject that it was
trying to follow
and comparing that with the
previous camera look at this footage you
can see that
the s5 tracking algorithm is definitely
much more reliable than the previous
camera
while the autofocus example i showed you
were mostly shot in the video mode
the improvements applied to both photo
and video shooting
when shooting video the autofocus
tracking
appears to be more reliable and also
responds slightly faster when i compare
it with the
s1 h with the latest firmware and just
like what i have found
in my previous autofocus test video if
you
increase the frame rate of the video
that you are shooting
the autofocus performance would also
improve
as well and to those of you who have
been following my channel for a while
yes i have done another autofocus test
so i have uploaded
a much longer autofocus test video
that you can check out i will put a link
below
while overall i think s5 autofocus
performance
is not too bad and a lot better than
what
a lot of people for the dfd autofocus
system would be
under some condition for example
when you are shooting video when there's
a very strong backlight so that your
subject is
quite a bit underexposed and especially
if you are shooting in the vlog picture
profile which has very low contrast
in that kind of lighting condition
you may find the dfd autofocus
performance is not quite as
stable as it normally would be you may
notice the background processing would
be
quite a bit more obvious and stronger
than it usually would be
and sometimes in the very worst case it
may just drift to the background
the good thing is usually it will come
back to the foreground
subject in a second or two but yeah this
kind of thing would happen
when the lighting condition it doesn't
help the dfd autofocus detection
when that happens there are few things
that you can do for example
instead of shooting in the vlog picture
profile if you switch to one of the
normal picture profile
or make sure your subject is properly
exposed
if it's underexposed during a bit of
exposure compensation if you are
shooting in one of the semi auto mode
doing one of those things would help
improve the performance of the autofocus
system and make it more stable
okay next let's talk about the photo
mode on the panasonic bluemix s5
the maximum burst speed for the s5 is 7
frames per second if you're shooting in
afs mode or 5 frame per second if you
are shooting in the afc
mode this is a little bit slower than
the s1
and also quite a bit slower than the
sony a7III
but if you compare it with the nikon z6
especially
the speed in the afc mode then the two
cameras are pretty similar
and as you may have expected for a
panasonic camera
it has the 4k and 6k photo mode if you
are shooting in the 4k photo mode
you can go up to 60 frames per second or
if you are shooting in the 6k photo mode
it can go up to 30 frames per second
it supports the hlg photo mode and also
it has multiple different aspect ratio
that you can choose when you're shooting
photos so instead of just the normal
three to two you can have many different
aspirations for example two to one
it is a feature that i personally don't
really use much but when talking to
some other photographers they find it
very useful
and the s5 also has the multi-shot
high resolution mode that is not
available on the a7 3 or the
z6 the s1 also has the high resolution
mode so
you can output either 96 megapixel or 48
megapixel photo when doing the multi
shot
high resolution exposure but the s5 does
have a few
improvement over the s1 now
instead of just outputting raw file it
can output
jpeg file as well as the raw file so it
is great for people who don't want to do
much post processing themselves there is
another improvement that i think a lot
of people would really like is that
with the previous panasonic cameras when
you do
the multi shot high resolution photo
there is a
limit the shutter speed the slowest you
can go
is one second which is not really that
slow
when you are taking landscape photos
for a lot of reason you would want to go
slower than that
for example you want to capture a slow
shutter speed photo if you want to
capture some
cloud movement or you want to smooth out
the water
then you want to go slower than one
second and also
when you are shooting under low light
condition you don't
always want to bump up the iso
especially you would need a tripod
anyway when you're doing the multi shot
hard resolution mode so
the slowest shutter speed now you can
choose when shooting the multi
shot high resolution photo on the
panasonic bluemix s5
is now a second this much slower shutter
speed
definitely can open up a lot more
possibility and also
help to improve the image quality when
you are doing the multi shot high
resolution photo
on the panasonic new mix s5 another new
feature that comes with the panasonic
lumix s5
is the live feel composite photo mode
this is the feature that was previously
available on micro four third camera
but this is the first time that it is
available on a panasonic full frame
cameras
if you are not too familiar with what
this feature is basically
the camera will continuously taking many
many shots and
brand them together and also render it
in real time so that you can see
the result on the screen immediately
after
the camera has update with the previous
frame
and you can stop it when you think you
got the exactly
the result that you want so this is very
useful
when you are taking for example a night
time
landscape photo when you want to have
some traffic light trial
in the foreground or for example when
you are taking
astral photo when you doing the star
trial photo
this is a photo that i shot in my garden
at night i basically just point the
camera up to this guys and then i start
the live video composite mode
and then i just check the photo every
few minutes until
about 30 minutes or so i feel like this
is the effect i want so i stop the
camera
and this is the end result i got so i
don't need to go into the photoshop and
just try to stack all the different
layers together and blend them together
myself it's all
done by the camera and one very nice
thing is
the camera can output either jpeg or raw
or both when you are doing the live feel
composite photo
so depends on whether you want to do
post posting yourself or not you can
get the camera to output either jpeg or
raw
wow i really like this live feel
composite mode because it allows you to
capture light trial very easily i think
right now the functionality is still a
little bit limited
for example i like to see the camera
offer you different kind of
branding mode and also when you are
shooting in the live view composite mode
right now you do
have a limitation shutter limitation you
cannot go
any faster than one over 1.6
second shutter speed it means if i want
to use the live view composite mode
during the day
i do really have to use a nd filter or
the photo will be completely overexposed
with the 24.2 megapixel full frame
sensor on the panasonic dumx
s5 the iso wrench that you can choose is
from iso 100
all the way up to extended iso 204
thousand
so this is pretty much the same iso
range
as the sony 873 and the nikon z6
so i did some high iso comparison
tests with these three cameras and also
i have included the panasonic lumix s1
edge
just to see how the high iso performance
is like
with these four cameras so um
i have another video with all the
results
that i can show you but a quick summary
is
the high iso performance of the s5 is
very good the image quality it remained
very clean even up to iso 25600
you can even say up to iso 50 1200
the image is still very usable and if
you go
up from there then you can see the image
starting to degrade quite quickly and if
i compare
these four cameras i would say the
panasonic lumix s5
the in terms of the jpeg file actually
it's the cleanest and the best quality
among these four cameras but having said
that the difference between these four
cameras
are actually very small so
you have to do a side-by-side comparison
photo like this
if you want to tell the difference and
even so you do have to look at it at 100%
zoom and look at it for quite a while
then you can see
a bit of difference between these four
cameras
so i think in terms of the high iso
performance
there really isn't much difference
between these four cameras
now because i'm working on this review
before the camera was
announced and there's no raw reader
that is officially released for the
panasonic lumix s5
i still want to see how the raw file is
like when you compare to the other
camera so i did some hack and hack
the s5 raw files and get the adobe
lightroom to
load it and when i compare the raw files
i think the result is also very similar
to what i saw
when i compared the jpeg file up to
iso around 25 600 or so
even without noise reduction the image
quality is still
really good and if i compare the photo
at the maximum iso 204 thousand
uh the quality is also very similar
and i would still say the raw file from
the Panasonic S5
is marginally better than the other
cameras
but it's really marginally the
difference is
again very small between these four
different
24 megapixel full-frame cameras
okay now let's talk about the video mode
on the panasonic lumix s5
with the S5 you can record 4k
video up to 60 frames per second
and you can also record it in 10 bit or
8 bit output and you can also record it
internally or externally
when you are recording the 8 8-bit 4k
if you're recording in 24 or 25 or 30
frame
then there's no crop it's using the full
frame sensor
if you're recording in 50 or 60 frames
per second
then they would be approximately 1.5
clock just like the panasonic numix s1
the s5 also has the vlog fret picture
profile
and it comes with the s5 and already
unlocked already so
unlike the s1 you don't have to
separately
purchase the upgrade key to unlock the
10b
or the V-log flat profile with the 10 bit
output
and the vlog picture profile together
the panasonic bluemix s5 can capture
14 plus stop dynamic range so that is
excellent
if you have to shoot under very high
contrast lighting condition
the maximum bit rate when you are
shooting 10 bit 4k
50 or 60 frames per second video is 200
megabit
per second or when you're shooting 10
bit 4k
24 25 or 30 frame per second video then
the maximum bit rate is 150
megabit per second which is exactly the
same as the panasonic lumix s1
and in terms of the video quality i
found the video i captured using the s5
is pretty much the same as what i
captured
using the s1 is very sharp
very nice color and if i shoot in 10 bit
with the vlog picture profile
it handle high dynamic scene very well
if the video features i've talked so far
still hasn't impressed you
there is a new firmware update that will
be coming soon before the end of the
year for the s5
with this new firmware update you will
be able to record
raw video with a supported atmos
video recorder you will be able to
record raw video
up to 5.9k at the frame rate up to 30
frames per second
or 4k raw file up to 60 frames per
second
or anamorphic video up to 50 frames per
second
so this is pretty much exactly the same
as the
s1h with the latest 2.1 firmware
this firmware update will also give you
a cinema 4k video recording weatherscope
display
shutter angle and gain operation and
more so
this will really make this s5 a
mini s1h if you are shooting 8 bit
4k video at 24 25 or 30 frames per
second
there is no time limit the camera
support
memory card hot swap so you can swap out
the memory card while it's still
recording
and also you can also use a external usb
power source to
power the camera so that means in theory
you could just record as long as you
wanted if you are recording 4k
50 or 60 frames per second video or
recording 10 bit video internally
then there is a 30 minute time damage
having said that you can immediately
press the trigger button again
when the camera stops the 30 minute
and you can start another recording and
just to find out whether the uh camera
would overheat
if you recording 4k 60 or 10 bit video
i did a test to see whether
the camera would overheat or how long
does it take for me to overheat the
camera
now i did this test back in july
here in new zealand which is winter so
it's a little bit cold it's not too cold
here in auckland like the temperature
is around mid 10 degrees celsius
around 15 16 degrees normally indoor
actually it will be a bit warmer
but to make the test a little bit more
meaningful
i actually just turn on a heater in my
room and
keep it all running for a while before i
start the test
i waited until the room temperature
increased to around 25 degrees celsius
so it's probably still not like super
hot but at least it's definitely not a
winter temperature i
set the camera to record in 4k 60
and 10 bit output and also i leave the
autofocus
to afc mode and also i have the ibis
turned on so just try to make
the camera work as hard as possible
and i start the recording because the
camera has a 30 minutes
time limit when i'm recording in 4k 60
10 bit
so what i did is i have it running and i
would wait
until it reached 30 minutes i would
immediately swap the memory card
because my biggest memory card is only
64 gigabytes so i swap the memory card
and then i will retrigger the start of
the recording pretty much
straight away so i keep it running
and running and running after 2 hour and
18 minutes
the camera finally shut down and it
didn't shut down because it overheated
it shut down just because the battery
after recording
more than two hours of the 4k 10 bit 60
video
it just can't be ran fast and at that
time i measured the temperature
of the back of the camera and it was
still under
40 degrees celsius so it's only
barely slightly warm now it doesn't mean
the camera would not overheat
when recording video i mean if you take
it to a desert and
shoot some video on a very hot day it
probably would still overheat and
it might be quite quickly but for a lot
of people
it probably wouldn't be a problem at all
the camera also has a new mode on the
model which is the s
and q mode what it does is it allows you
to
capture slow motion or the quick motion
video
very easily by just switching to that
mode on the mode dial
previously with the previous uh
panasonic camera you have to enable
the slow motion or the quick motion
video by going to the menu
find it and then enable it so with this
snq killed modal it just
make it a lot easier and for the slow
motion video
you can shoot in 4k up to 60 frames per
second
or if you are shooting in the full hd
resolution you can go
up to 108 frames per second just like
the s1
if you're shooting in the 180 frame per
second full hd
then there is a bit of cropping if you
shoot at 150 frames per second then
there's no cropping
but for me i was mostly shooting at 120
frames per second
because one improvement that the s5 has
over the s1 is that you can finally
has autofocus when you are shooting slow
motion video
not having auto focus at all when you
are shooting slow motion video with the
previous
panasonic camera is something that i
have complained quite a bit
in the past so i'm very happy to see
that the panasonic Lumix s5 finally also
has this slow motion autofocus
feature the only other panasonic
mirror's camera that has
the slow motion autofocus support is the
panasonic Lumix s1h
just like the s1 the s5 also has
the waveform display and also the zebra
display to
help you ensure your exposure is correct
and
you can also enable the vlog
visual assist to help you
visualize the picture a lot better when
you are shooting in the video picture
profile
the s5 does have some other new features
for example it has the red
record frame display so what that is
is when you are recording video it will
display
a red border around the frame
so that you know that you are actually
recording
that is something probably pretty useful
when you are doing
vlogging because sometimes you may not
actually notice you're actually not
recording you thought
you're already recording another new
feature that is good for people who want
to shoot some video for social media is
that
the s5 also supports vertical video
recording
the s5 also supports time code output so
this is another feature that the s1
doesn't have
and speaker feature that s1 doesn't have
there's another one that the s5 has is
it support
any morphic video previously the only
full frame panasonic camera that support
anabolic video is the panasonic numix s1
h
so the panasonic numix s5
also supports it and it also supports
different type of lenses
it supports 1.3 times 1.33 times 1.5
times
1.8 times and also 2 times anamorphic
lenses
and s5 will also be supported by
panasonic's new mix
teetering app so if you want to do some
tiering
shooting or if you want to do some live
streaming using the um the special
version of the tethering app
so that is possible with this Panasonic
Lumix s5
i've also done some tests to see what is
the video quality is like when i'm
shooting video
at high iso using the panasonic lumix s5
and also shot some comparison video
using the sony a7 3 and the nikon z6
and the panasonic Lumix s1h if you want
to see the full
test results you can check out my high
iso comparison
video on my channel but a quick summary
is
the s5 it seems to have
the best high iso performance
when you are recording 4k video it seems
to be
even marginally better than the s1h
which is something that surprised me
a little bit but yeah um the high iso
performance when shooting video with the
panasonic mix
s5 is definitely very impressive
when the panasonic lumix s1 was released
there were quite a lot of complaints
especially about the lcd screen design
because people were thinking the s1 is a
full-frame GH5
which it really isn't the s1 was
primarily designed as a professional
photographer's camera
but just because it is a panasonic
camera so it does have
some very nice video features but now
with the s5
it is more like a full-frame gh5 because
it is a camera that is designed for both
photographer
and videographer and also the size of
this camera
is very similar to the GH5 as well
actually a little bit smaller and a
little bit lighter despite the sensor
on this camera is four times the size
of the sensor on the GH5 with the 4k
up to 60 frames per second and also
10 bit and vlog already enabled
that you can record either internally or
externally
the fully articulated screen anamorphic
video support slow motion video with
autofocus
the s5 video feature is better than the
s1
and very close to the s1 edge and with
the new firmware that will be coming
before the end of the year which
allow raw video recording and also the
cinema 4k and a few other video feature
upgrade this
really make the S5 a mini S1H that
is a lot lighter a lot smaller and also
quite a bit cheaper
as well and for photographers i think
you appreciate the
improved high resolution mode and also
the new live view composite mode
but if you are primarily a photographer
which using the dvf to shoot photos
most of the time i think the s1
will probably still be the better camera
for you because
of the much higher resolution evf on the
panasonic new mix s1
in terms of autofocus which is probably
panasonic's biggest weakness
the autofocus system on the s5
is definitely an improvement compared to
the
previous panasonic cameras i have tested
in the past
it is more stable more reliable and also
with less background browsing they are
definitely still
room for improvement for example all the
workarounds that i have talked about
um in this video i wish i don't have to
use the workaround and the camera can
handle all the different
conditions for me i understand panasonic
they are working really hard to improve
their autofocus system
as they probably know that this is the
biggest area that
they are not quite as good as both of
their competitors
and if you are a Panasonic Lumix S1 or S1H or S1R  owner the new auto focus
improvement and features that is
available on the S5
will also come to you as a firmware
update before the end of the year
i would say for most users the S5 is
probably
the best overall full frame camera from
panasonic right now
if you give me a S1 S1H S1R  and
S5 for me to choose i would probably
pick the s5 for myself.
Is the s5 the perfect camera?
probably not i don't really think there
is
ever a perfect camera but
if you look at the photo
image quality the video quality
the feature available the body design
the size the weight and price
if you look at them all i think
panasonic s5
is probably as close as a perfect camera
you can find
in the market right now
