Lumix S5II

While I have two S5ii cameras and I’ve shot everything on them ever since they came out.. don’t switch. The A7 IV is also an excellent camera and unless you specifically need a Lumix feature like Open Gate or IBIS, I’d say the better move would be to learn the system you already own and practice you

Upgrade G9 to G9ii (much better in every way from sensor to AF) and keep PL 12-60 f/2.8-4 (add PL 50-200 f/2.8-4 and if need further reach 100-400ii f/4-6.3, both work well with 1.4x teleconverters) and get an S5ii with 24-60 f/2.8 and 35-150 f/2-2.8 and be done. Use each system to their strengths,

The AF on Lumix Cameras (s5ii onwards) is great. Not as sticky as Sony (for objects) but I shoot weddings and find I have little to complain about. The IBIS is something I'm no longer willing to compromise on though. I haven't shot Canon for a long time. I'm sure it's great. But you might want to tr

Hey so I am going to assume that this is your first camera, and if it is, you made a great choice. Unfortunately smartphones have set the bar REALLY high for stabilization and they achieve their fluid stabilization of video through many different techniques that other commenters have mentioned. Sadl

Cannot compare the G85 to the S5II. I swapped from G85 as my first to the S5II, the former having pretty rough AF. Lumix isn’t perfect for autofocus, but they’ve made leaps that it feels usable most of the time, but of course not better than Sony. However the tradeoff I was willing to take are solid

Debatable They vastly degraded the s5iix image quality with aggressive sharpening and NR post launch (firmware which can't be reversed) and later completely removed streaming functions which were heavily marketed and users specifically paid for with the s5iix over the s5ii Also every other update br

I’ve used both for a pretty good amount of time. They both serve as the best budget full frame hybrid cameras on the market. The nikon offers a better experience for those more inclined to photography (especially flash and sports photography) lumix uses an old olympus mount which limits what flashes

I would probably stray away from both cameras if I was going to shoot weddings. At the same price point, any of Lumix's line (S5II, S5IIX) would work really well. Maybe a used C70 or FX3 at the top end of your budget. An FX2 wouldn't be out of the question either. The Lumix series has the best inter

If you're going handheld often I would only really consider Lumix. The S5II is exactly $1500. "Lowlight performance" is incredibly overrated and always looks like shit, if the lighting is bad there's no way to make it look good.

Yes in BRAW the quality of fine details is much better. The first gen S1 and S5 had better quality when recording internal, the look was close to what you can get in BRAW on the S5IIX, not bad sharpening nor temporal noise reduction when underexposed (on the S5IIX it makes the skin looks waxy when u