Introduction of Dslr cinematography technology that is filming high resolution videos with inexpensive Dslr cameras was a boon for Independent film makers, documentary film making and also student short films.
Video images of Dslr though had high resolution videos but it recorded compressed imageshaving this in mind Panasonic GH5 improved internal recording with 10 bit color depth and chroma sampling 4:2:2 opposed to regular 8 bit color depth, but still when it was about extreme low light filming of using very higher ISO this camera was not at its best like full frame sensor cameras like Sony A7SII offered.
Now Panasonic GH5 S has same good features its early model had with addition of low light performance. This camera has very useful feature the Dual ISO concept, there are basically two circuits right after each pixel and before the gain amp, one for each ISO which allows for two ‘native’ ISOs. In theory, this will allow you to shoot clean images in much lower light conditions than a camera with a single lower native ISO. The benefit of Dual Native ISO is that the low light improvement is coming directly from the sensor, rather than just boosting the gain and adding noise reduction.
The great thing about the Lumix GH5S is that there is an Auto Dual ISO option, which will change the native ISO on the filming.
Technical Specifications
- 10.2MP, multi-aspect sensor
- Waveform, vectorscope displays
- Dual native ISO
- DCI 4K at 60 fps, expanded up to 240fps
- Time code in/out
CJ RAJKUMAR
Author/Cinematographer