Lee Morris at Fstoppers has high praise for the new Panasonic GH5, calling 'almost perfect.' What would be necessary to remove the word 'almost' from that statement? Lee suggests 12 firmware updates Panasonic could make to improve the camera, and most of them are relatively small – but useful – things, ranging from better battery level displays to additional customization options.
Video AF which actually works. I'm now forced to choose between the better quality codecs of the GH5 and the far superior video AF (with usable face tracking) Sony offer. It sounds picky, but when using a gimbal without a remote follow-focus and focus puller, Sony's AF is very useful indeed. Why, why, why did Panasonic stick to contrast-only AF when they knew they'd be in direct competition with Sony's AF?
This guy claims that most of these things can easily be done with a firmware update. In most cases I highly doubt that is true.
Auto Focus during Slow motion has never been done with Panasonic cameras so I doubt there is an easy fix there.
Also the focus zoom in feature probably has some limitations that cause it to not be an option during filming. He even mentions some of the reasons why it may not be desirable.
His arguments about wanting audio for slow motion video aren’t really that practical. The audio would be slowed down and not very useful.
If you use the AVC-HD codec then it offers the very low bit rates that he requires for some reason. I am not sure why he couldn’t figure that out on his own.
The ISO display with Auto ISO would be nice. It does it with stills so it should be able to do it with video as well.
His battery grip problems can be mostly solved with the battery grip setting. Not sure why he didn’t explore that setting in more detail.
Did you listen to what he actually said? What he wanted was *initial* focus lock, he accepted that auto-focus during shooting wasn't necessarily possible.
I would seriously abandon the "Still" side, make the camera more for the video shooters and focus on that. The side articulating screen isn't good for video (they don't need vertical position) nor for still shooters, so it is compromise for both.
an articulating screen is useful, vital even, when you want to take pictures of movies when holding the camera over your head (e.g. over the heads of a crowd) or from down low. Also, you can position the screen to avoid reflected glare when shooting outdoors.
why rule out still photography?
a nice feature with these cameras is that you can grab stills whilst shooting video.
I like hearing that a videographer clearly states that 4k and high bitrates are overkill in some situations.. If i could have made a choice in Apri..l I'd have preferred it to be in stock when I needed it. Add all the advanced videostuff later. Had to make a choice. Its wasnt the GH5 because it just wasnt in stock when tehy said it would be.
I agree with all these points. Glad to see point 2 (auto iso values not displayed), because i find it really annoying but strangely not often mentioned in forums. Its not just auto iso, Panasonic seem to believe any value that is automatic should be hidden (in movie mode). I often use aperture priority and auto iso, but i have to keep turning the mode dial back to A just to get an exposure reading. Why Panasonic think we dont want to know exposure values is a complete mystery. Also glad to see more criticism of continuous autofocus. Panasonic are in denial about that. The Canon system is superb.
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