LUMIX S1II

Not sure if my opinion is of any value to you, but I'm a former S5II owner. I took advantage of Panasonic LUMIX's trade-in trade-up promotion, which provided me a $400 discount on the purchase of the new S series camera and I received ~$850 in value for my S5II (varies depending on condition, mine w

By all accounts you can get a more organic image by shooting Pro-Res and Raw formats, but these come with huge file sizes. H264 and H265 file sizes are so much more reasonable for so many workflows - and I have also noticed the difference going from an S1 / S1H to an S5II. Up-voting this because its

S1II uses a partially stacked sensor, with faster readout speeds and CF Express card (OP confirmed they used CFE). With electronics, faster usually means hotter. It could also have a new processor, memory or other components that run hotter than the components in the S5 II. If Panasonic didn't enhan

It really is mind boggling why they've decided to go that way regarding the processing of the image. Especially since they got it absolutely spot-on right with their original S cameras. I own and use S1, S1H and S1 II and that particular aspect is rather painful when you compare footage. However, I

I own or owned lot of Panasonic full frame and m43 cameras. To my eyes, the S1II has the worse colors, by example a lot of time when I look at my footage, I think the greens look off and it is not only because of the white balance.The S5II had nicer colors on my opinion, the first firmware of this c

Yeah basically what you said but it all really depends. Lack of lenses for Canon can be a big deal but if someone like me can live basically with 24mm and 50mm primes then Canon has those covered. I really like their color science and now reviewing my footage from Canon R8 I think it produced best q

https://www.canon-europe.com/cameras/eos-r6-mark-iii/specifications/Canon r6iii seems to record RAW with 7k open gate. But it seems it is external RAW recording, it requires a monitor screen (like atomos etc). https://imaging.nikon.com/imaging/lineup/mirrorless/z6_3/https://www.panasonic.com/uk/cons