I choose Ben Richards! He's one mean mother effer 🤣 GH6 all the way. GH5 II just shows what Panasonic has become and with a few tweaks where they can go... World Domination!

do you do guitars as well?

i'll choose GH m2.. more great for video. slow auto focus isn't problem for me. because i try to mastering manual focus for this purposes.

You are so right, Jerimiah Cook drills them about this on his channel.

@@thewalkingvloggingman7152 Panasonic is consistently losing money with their camera business unfortunately. When you look at the top camera sellers list, Panasonic ranks among the "others" category....their marketing is really bad, its true. Although I love their products.

The GH5II is quite possibly the most underrated camera ever. It's great.

Thanks, Kenny. I think a lot of the camera channels focus more on specs than on use case. Most of the tech will work fine these days it just comes down to what works best for the job at hand. :)

Thanks :)

Thanks for watching :)

The AF on the GH5M2 works awesome for photos but its not as good as the Sony for video autofocus. The GH5M2 leaves the Sony for dead when it comes to video codecs and capabilities. I thought the image quality from the GH5M2 in this video was quite clearly nicer to the eye minus the background blur. Hope this helps. :)

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Man, huge difference in the video quality straight out of camera. For sure the Sony can be graded but still, Pannyboy doesn't even need it. Thanks for the info and real world perspective

Shane is the man - guitars, cameras m it doesn’t matter!! 🤣😎😎

@@MarkBennettCameraCrisis Such a suave Aussie, just oozing cool from all pores. Plus he has great taste in cameras 😛

To be fair. He had nothing to do with it lol. I worked on this over the course of 4 days. But, it's funny as ;)

@@GeekyNerdyTechy Still, I take all credit for the videos you did since you started the channel

Thanks 🙏

The Panasonic is a far better camera to use overall minus the Autofocus. If you can live with that, the Panasonic is a far better camera overall.

Thank you! Cheers!

Yep it SUCKS. I hate subscription services. Just another way you are milked for cash after the fact. I am spending a good portion of time overseas next year and having to stabilize everything in post and downgrade it sucks unless I get a short term subscription. I used the one by one method for my short film going up at the end of this month and it was a huge pain. Plus you end up keeping the old files so everything doubles in size. I am already on the fence about selling these cameras. I am working on my FX3 review now. There's a lot of stuff I've noticed with it that not many people are talking about. My review will be about 70% favorable and 30% brutal. haha

@@GeekyNerdyTechy Yeah - man. No one wants anything but Canon or Sony, so it’s hard having a camera channel talking about Olympus Panasonic or even Black magic. But the truth is, those Penny and Blackmagic cameras are often better to use for everything that doesn’t need autofocus and Olympus kills it in stabilization. It feels like I’m torn - Panasonic and Blackmagic just have more exciting and better to use cameras for real work, but most people on KZfaq are watching because they really use cameras causally (or they want their own KZfaq channel) the Sony’s and Canon’s are more appealing to them. Now for photos - absolutely Sony for me with that awesome dynamic range and focusing system and lens selection

It's up to how you shoot as to which one is better. If you're not doing a lot of walking shots then the S5 is fantastic.

@@GeekyNerdyTechy I am doing a lot of walking shots but also very many low light shots, which is why it’s so hard to choose! 😂 I know if the GH6 had good low light I’d buy it in a heartbeat but good low light + good stabilization doesn’t exist except in the S1H, which I can’t necessarily afford.

Thank you! Cheers!

Yes it only works for 24 and 30fps video

I haven't looked for any new firmware yet with the Sony but Panasonic update theirs about once to twice a year. It's always free except if you want to unlock Vlog on older cameras.

@@GeekyNerdyTechy thx for info.

Those older S1/S1H cameras are huge but the results are pretty great as well. They are too big for outdoor use, but as a studio tool I'm sure they'd be fantastic. One of the major turn off's for me is subscription services especially after you spend $6000 AUD on an FX3 and you get a crippled version of Catalyst. The FX3 has been a great studio tool but I like using it far less than the GH5II, it's crazy! 😆 The GH52 has been a great little camera. AF is good enough for most situations but it very heavily relies on the lens choice for better AF. The S5 with the Kit lens is also a fantastic option for AF and portability.

@@GeekyNerdyTechy Thanks for the reply. I guess the reason I kept the S1 is for the 6K internal and the unlimited 4K 10-bit recording, which I thought would be good for long interviews or wedding ceremonies for the ability to crop in post... but 6K is limited to only 15 minutes and 4:2:0 so maybe it won't be as much of a benefit as I had hoped.

@@GeekyNerdyTechy I feel like the S5 gets largely glossed over, like "Oh I want a gh5 with all great video features but guess I gotta go sony or canon because I need full frame." While the S5 is basically just a full frame gh5 sitting right there. Don't get me wrong the gh5 as a camera punches well above it's weight class and the Sony is a great camera too, just kinda feel like the S5 almost gives you the best of both worlds, granted there's no scenario here were you don't lose a little of an edge for any of the cameras involved.

It depends on the lens. The S5 is really great with the kit lens. It's right up there as one of the best combinations I've used. The GH5II has great AF with some lenses and some do struggle a bit but if you get the ones with the recently updated firmware it works really well. It feels like the GH5II has the same overall performance but that kit lens on the S5 is something special (from Panasonic, at least).

That's called rolling shutter, and it's terrible on most Sony cameras with the exception of the FX3, A7SIII and some of their similar cameras.

@@GeekyNerdyTechy mmmm… ok, thanks for the reply. I actually thought the rolling shutter would just make this tilt effect of the image when panning the camera from left to right. But a kinda “sluggish” image like that would disturb me actually

This is what happens when you drop footage with mismatching framerate to a timeline.

I dropped a 25p clip on a 50p timeline. It should have filled in the frames but maybe not. Sorry about that.

Thanks for the kind words, mate. Agreed but there is a lot of lenses available for MFT, just not a lot of new ones. It would be great to see some new versions of their older ones that have a better AF motor but I don't know if that'll ever happen. I found since they started updating firmware on some of the older lenses the AF is a bit better but some of them will never be as good as the Linear motors in the Sony cameras. For some reason though, the 20-60mm Kit on the S5 (in this video) worked amazing so it must be because it's a new lens. I can't wait to see the Gh6 but my gut is the AF will be about as good as the S5 which is very good.

I have micro four thirds cameras and I don't recognize this lens problem you are talking about. Besides Panny there are Olympus and of course third party like Sigma e.g. And there are the occasional updates. True that some of Panasonic's newer zooms are more costly but on the other hand most MFT lenses are cheaper than most APS-C and small format sensor camera (what many call full frame) lenses.

@@joestrahl6980 Well for example there's no fast zoom from sigma or tamron for micro 4/3, but there's for Sony E and FE (Fullframe and APS-C). Next about the fast primes - I know that Sigma 16,30 and 56 are available for m43, but because of the 2x crop factor those lenses are not that usable with mft bodies, since they're designed for that crop. Last but not least - Olympus lenses have awesome optical performance, but AF combined with lumix body is much worse than with lumix lenses (and thats not something that you want,especially for the price). I have 12-35 f2.8 and I would love some kind of faster zoom (maybe f2) but only option besides that is 10-25 f1.7 and that's just stupid expenisve - you can buy Sigma art zoom for fullframe (Sony E or Panasonic L-mount) for cheaper and those lenses are just pure joy.

@@RZExperience well we all have different wants and needs don't we? My kit meets my needs and I am sure that your kit meets yours.

Very stupid high price!

There's a lot of video overlays in this video with the cameras. I also have reviews of both on the channel. This is pretty common to use another camera when showcasing one of them on screen. Check DP review, Gerald Undone, or any other channel for example.

You need to find the answer to that.

I'm not a fan of that feature I usually turn it off altogether but if it's critical for your work it's understandable.

In regards to the GH5 are you saying that as youre recording you cant adjust the focus using the touch screen? Looking to get the GH5M2 so I’m curious 🤔

@@IsaacRayMusicChannel you can adjust focus while recording. What you can't do is magnify the focus area while recording to check you're nailing focus. The GH6 can do this, the GH5 series can't. If you're shooting any kind of event, you need to make sure focus is correct during long static shots. On the GH5 you either stop, check focus, restart, or use a monitor for accuracy. Having said that native lenses are pretty accurate for static focusing on the GH5 series.

@@RobDunlopPrettyInWhite makes sense, I currently have a G85 and at times have used my touch screen to tap my focus back on track and focus it onto a new subject as im recording. Was wondering if i could do that as well with the GH5M2 and its sounds like i can so thanks for that!

@@IsaacRayMusicChannel yeah you can. The 5ii is a great camera to be fair.

Totally agree.

haha thanks, I think! 🤣

There's no headphone jack on the Sony. I covered that in the audio section. There's timestamps in the description.

@@GeekyNerdyTechy Sorry to say but I have an A7C and it does have a headphone jack on the bottom flap/door next to the hdmi and USB type c port.

@@pdotc Yup. I replied to the comment above agreeing with this.

@@GeekyNerdyTechy Might be worth putting a fix in your description or adding text post upload. I had to double check the A7C specs, it indeed has a headphone Jack.

The GH5 has very problematic AF, but the G9 has excellent AF and the GH5 M2 is better again. I have both Sony and Panasonic, and the G9 gets shots hand at night that is just a shaky mess on the Sony. When you factor in stabilization and the rest of the feature set, plus usable AF on the latest Panasonic bodies then the balance swings back to Panasonic.

using 2x gh5 + gh5mii (latest firmware) on gimbal for weddings , etc. Shot around 30 jobs already. GH5MII is far better camera in terms of everything, including AF,screen, but still far behind sony, tested with 12mm f1,4 (can just go blurry on a group shot) ,15mm f1,7 struggles almost the same way as on gh5m1. stiil want to test it with sigma 56 f1,4. Just don't have time. Livestream is a new cool feature, but you cannot record it internally.

@@thewalkingvloggingman7152 If you look for GH5 reviews on KZfaq, you will find many autofocus complaints. The GH5's autofocus sucks.

@@niltons.spagnuolo The GH5 is much better than at launch but is still not trustworthy. The GH5 M2, on the other hand has very usable AF. While I cannot agree with Vincent's arrogant comment about "real videographers" not using AF because that attitude comes from the luxury of the old idea of working in a crew and the videographer always being behind the camera, and not accounting for today's one-man videography where you need to set and forget a camera and rely on it working without user input, he does have a point. Not only is the GH5 M2 have very good AF, there is a lot to be gained from fine tuning camera parameters. I am a one-man operation and get excellent AF results from the latest Panasonic bodies. While Panasonic takes more effort to get the results, the poor stabilization on Sony bodies is the thing I find most frustrating about Sony. I like hand held work and that is where MFT really shines. That and the lack of video features compared to Panasonic. There is no perfect camera, and focussing just on AF ignores the many limitation in the Sony world. I shoot both Sony and Lumix/Olympus, and the cameras that I enjoy the most are Panasonic, mostly because of the excellent video oriented feature set and superb stabilization.

That's a great camera. I have a few reviews on that one up on the channel. Thanks for watching. :)

@@GeekyNerdyTechy i have watched those. Actually helped me in deciding on what camera to buy!

Totally agree, colour is way better on Gh5

That's not true. Whoever told you that is using the wrong lens. Try a 9-15mm lens for selfie work.