Panasonic Lumix S5

Panasonic Lumix has its own followers for its brand value.

Mirrorless feature in micro four thirds, low light performance was their trademark.

With S series Panasonic entered for full frame market.

Lumix S1 and S1H is a professional camera for film makers.

Now Panasonic Lumix has announced a more compact full frame camera shoots 4 k resolution.

This camera is cheaper tries to balance both still photographers and Video shooting requirements.

It has V log mode – dual iso 640 and 4000,  internal video recording for 10 bit color.

Key specifications:

• 24.2MP full-frame CMOS sensor with no AA filter
• Up to 4K/60p (APS-C), full-frame oversampled 4K/30p all with 4:2:2 10-bit color
• Panasonic contrast-detect DFD AF with improved face, body and head detection
• 2.36M dot OLED EVF w/ 0.74x magnification
• 3” 1.84M dot fully articulating touchscreen
• Dual SD card slots (1x UHS-II, 1x UHS-I)
• 96MP high-resolution mode
• 7 fps burst shooting (5 fps with continuous autofocus)
• 2.4/5Ghz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with one-touch image transfer.

As a pre order offer Panasonic gives a Sigma lens on S5 purchase.

CJ Rajkumar

Author/ Cinematographer