10 Things I Noticed about the Lumix G9ii 

I’m glad it helped! They make good pair I have to say in many ways and I’ll certainly be keeping both’

I was really surprised when I picked it up and felt how white it was, and even more surprised that no one else seemed to mention it! Thanks for stopping by!

You would enjoy it, but for Video I still mostly prefer the GH six when quality is concerned. Plus the DJI unit you have been testing is probably almost as convenient for a lot of things. It is a very capable camera despite some of the limitations.

Haha I try not to take things too seriously irl so why do it on my channel? It’s all for fun anyways

If it wasn’t then it is now! I just think those additional accessories like power delivery and monitors really build up the heat

The body design and the front record button and the fan are incredibly important on the GH6 even if the G9ii a few extra little tricks

Good decision 😉

Not sure. I never used it so I don’t know what I’m missing but I’ve always said this feels more like a GH5 body than a G9 in a lot of ways

If they call, I will answer! Otherwise I’ll just keep reviewing lenses and working on my GH6 long-term video lol

Contrast based auto focus is used in basically every single camera from every single manufacturer. It is still to this day, the quickest and most accurate single AF mode which is why everybody reverts back to it when not using continuous auto focus. Phase detect does have some utility when it comes to quickly acquiring a subject and consistently focusing on it, but it is not nearly as accurate in other situations. I never use the original and I understand it’s very different but man that Camera is a crazy good value these days which is why I included it in one of my previous videos about really good value budget Panasonic cameras. The high resolution modes are incredibly fun to me and actually do have some utility occasionally but mostly are just for fun .

Where is the GH5 in terms of what? What do you mean just in general?

As opposed as many think, the GH5 has still the best overall details in video. The "6K" Open gate has the best organic look I have seen on m43. Each time I compare my GH5 to my G9II in Open Gate, I think something is not right on the G9II, like if big sharpening is added to mask the loss of details due to the digital moiré filter Panasonic use on this camera. You can use 4K 120fps on the G9II as opposed to the 60fps max of the GH5, but again the GH5 has the edge for details quality, the G9II lacks some details of the GH5 and looks rough. Note than if you don't crop, I don't think you will see the difference and it is not that bad, I found the S5II worse than the G9II about details rendering, at least in good light. On the G9II you also have 5,7K 30 and 60fps, on the GH5 you are limited to 6K open Gate or 6K photo 3:2/4:3 30 fps. But you can still crop inside the 6k files of the GH5 to get better resolution than 4K. Also the 4K of the GH5 is so good about details than it looks as good as the 5,7K of the G9II. But don't take me wrong, the G9II has much better AF in video, sometimes not as accurate than the GH5 with old lenses like the 45-175mm (the point of focus is sometimes not 100% accurate, you can see it when cropping), but overall much faster. The IBIS is also slightly better on the G9II, and of course much better when using the EIS crop mode. But the G9II has not only better AF and IBIS, it has a lot of features like Real time LUT, handheld high resolution (you can take one 100MP picture every 13 seconds), you can charge your camera on USB, you can use 4:2:2 even in 60fps, the G9II is also lighter, the DR is much better in video when using V-log, it has less noise in both photo and video, and the most important the colors are I think much better than the GH5, I really need to work hard on the GH5 to get the same colors in video. I would have loved to have a G9II with the same video engine than the GH5, but for now I keep both, and I hope the GH7 will have the same organic (but still full of details) look than the GH5 Open gate, but with the AF and colors of the G9II.

@@slows728 You're awesome, thank you. I'm in love with my GH5 but was afraid it didn't aged well. Thank you again.

@@RhettThompsonFilm Well the explanation I got is pretty much what I was seeking for.

I wonder if it’ll be possible to have a dual gain and dual output in one sensor! Imagine if the GH6 could pull of the low light of the GH5s and DR boost of the G9ii. I guess we can dream.

@@RhettThompsonFilm Very nice idear , yes it seems that Panasonic are very capable of it and being as they are making the easier S9 for the wider audience they may be able to afford to keep niche products like you suggested appearing hopefully . cheers 🤔👍 thanks for the feedback .

It’s strange. I never really hit that button on the GH6 but it has happened a few times on the G9ii. Filming on and off, but not continuously. But regularly grabbing 4K clips. I truly think that the G9ii should not be used with any accessories if you can help it. I think it’s the monitor that pushed it over the edge because after I took the monitor off, it didn’t have any other problems but maybe it was my particular monitor or something else.

@@RhettThompsonFilm Thanks for the reply and info. Good to know!

@@scottmorgason yeah for whatever reason that stuff really seems to build up the heat and the camera will even tell you this if it overheats, but if you can just use the camera and the lens straight out of the box, the heat isn’t going to build up nearly as fast I never had another overheating experience after I ditched the monitor

There may be info coming about that camera soon…stay posted!

Buy some people I mean a lot of people, including myself ha ha, I really like the still image quality from this camera. I think I might like the video better from the GH6 but the RAW photos and JPEG’s look really nice. As far as the global summit, I don’t know what that is really to be honest and if it’s something you can be invited to I haven’t been.

Never! GH6 is still my go to camera for narrative and creative stuff and I consider it to have the best image of all my cameras.

I go over it briefly here but I believe it is SLIGHTLY worse but it’s very small

Been good so far! Not as nice as my GH6 but pretty close!

500 in vlog up to 60 and then it drops to 250 in anything higher and DRBOOST automatically is enabled or disabled.

@@RhettThompsonFilm And do you know the base iso for other colors profiles?

@@arturakhmetov3764 the same as the GH6. 100iso

Of course!

Never! She’s old reliable when it comes to heat and I love the image but autofocus is very nice for some of my paid work.

Look at the release date of this video and the announcement of the GH7 haha. I didn’t realize they would release it so soon to be completely honest with you

The G9ii? I don’t find the built quality to be lacking much at all.

I’m making a S5ii G9ii and GH6 image quality comparison. Is that what you mean?

@@RhettThompsonFilm dynamic range and noise S5 vs S5ii

Like I said in the video, while it is a fairly large camera for a micro for third camera it’s lighter than pretty much every professional body we’ve got in the lineup. Even the GH5 is heavier which leads me to think this camera is really nice, especially when paired with some of the high end lenses like the medium sized prime lenses and small or large zoom lenses. If you want a system that balances fairly well with large and small lenses the weight distribution for this is really nice and the gap of image quality and dynamic range between this and the full frame cameras is not as big as you might think, unless you are doing incredibly high contrast situations all the time, or directly comparing these cameras, one stop of highlights isn’t necessarily going to be noticeable. At least it isn’t to me most of the time of course the image, quality and low performance for the full frame is nice, but I do like the controlled depth of field, which still can easily blow out the background for 90% of things 90% of the time. To each their own though!

As an mft user, yeah the only thing keeping me in the system is the price to reach for telephoto. Maybe size too because I have very small manual lenses that are kind of easy to carry on em-5 bodies in my jacket pocket while I have the 100-400 out. I have used ff and been annoyed by the size but maybe now I’ll try again. It’s hard to upgrade, at the price of this camera I could get the r8 and a lens😂.

As a long time mft shooter, this was basically the camera that kept me with the system. Would I have liked it to be smaller? Yes. Does it have everything else I need and in a body/lens combo that I can still shoot all day with? Also yes. My clients love the images, and I love how it handles. No real down sides for me. That said, I also have a huge collection of mft lenses. If I was to start from scratch today, it would be a challenging decision to make.

Buy a Ff camera, use it for several years and... Well... And wecome back to MFT :) That's what happens to many people...

@@paulelisarov2576 never been blown away by a full frame camera yet. Another tool in the toolbox

That’s what I was trying to go about here was seeing if those other aspects of the camera besides auto focus would be worth purchasing it. The dynamic range boost and stabilization features are still really great even if you don’t use auto focus.