GH7 VS GH5 Image quality test! 

Hello. The GH5's image looks more cinematic so I guess the GH7 will take better photos. I have GH5 and S1 equipment and what I see wrong with the GH5 apart from the focus is the magenta tint, but hey, nothing that can't be solved. Greetings from Spain.

Hi Ken , Without question , you are the best tester for mft on you tube , and thanks for the honesty . 👍👍👍👍👍

Whenever I see images from the GH7, I notice how much more pronounced the speculars and highlights are, especially in the skintones. This adds a lot of dimensionality but also washes out some of the saturation, not in a bad way either. I tended find Lumix colors a bit too dense for my taste, so I think this is a great progression for their color science. I saw this evolution going from a GH5s to a GH6 and it looks like the GH7 is in line with this trajectory. I definitely hear you though; there was some magic in the old color science. I live in Natural profile on the GH5s and go cineD if I want an even more neutral image. The vlog on GH6 is far superior to GH5s vlog though. You made great use of GH5 vlog, so I expect you are going to love GH7 vlog. Glad you are enjoying the camera. Wishing you and your channel the best and looking forward to seeing more :)

Thank you, Ken! Great video. I'm glad, that I have GH5 with upgrade and lenses that you've recomended me. Never had regrets about it, only joy. Thank you, bro!!!

Thanks for this video, great comparison!

Thank you for this video. I was waiting for a comparison with standard and cine d like this. Its been difficult to find a good replacement for the gh5 because that thing just nailed stabilization and color science. I guess I will continue looking or give a gh6 a go in the meantime. Thanks a lot!

Thanks Ken for this one love and greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦

Totally agree, please do more videos and comparisons, as I’m using Gh5ii, which by colors should be identical with gh5, specially in v-log profile, as I shoot last year’s just in it, where can push more in colors with best dynamic range. Will be good if the image will be similar, without color grading, so can use one camera as A and second one as B.

Awesome my brother, thank you for your work

Hey Ken thanks for this Test, i prefer the gh5 color (the color grade made your skin little bit to much yellowish on the GH7),GH7 obviously much sharper, but to much for my taste and the gh5 little not enough ^^

The GH5 looks better but I don’t know if that’s ghosting I see in the GH5 or RU-vid messing it up. The GH5 all the way!

For a more filmic look, and for smooth skin tones, the gh5 is my preference here. For ENG or sports the GH7 wins hands down.

At first glance looks like the sharpness and highlights in skintons appears better. I can't wait until you test out the autofocus/lowlights.

Definitely two great cameras. 🙌🏻 I'm eagerly awaiting all the tips for the new one, which you've explained so well. 🤗 🌟🌟🌟 And new cinematic videos ❤

Thanks for the video, Ken. Yeah, there is quite a difference in the colors between the two cameras. I also wanted to say thanks for your dynamic range tests in your other video. I wonder if the GH6 has similar dynamic range to the GH7? Anyway, thanks again.

Please focus on arri logC or v-log, especially in the 5.7k mode.

Great! Would be really interested to see a dynamic range comparison in v-log. E.g. Shooting the same high dynamic range scene side by side and check how much detail you can recover in the brighter parts.

Excellent, Ken. I see the gh7 image sharper, but for me it is not a huge improvement. You made an excellent video, very informative. Waiting for the other videos!

I'm trust your opinion. I think it's time for me to upgrade from GH5 but waiting for final decision to compare with G9ii. But now I can't see any model of GH7 for test on my local camera store even G9II. Only pre-order and wait for few months to get it. (I don't like about this marketing style It's look like they give the first priority to camera influencers for review the product.) I've test G9II only once at camera exhibition last year. 🥺🥺🥺

Never use noise reduction on the og GH5 (0), It smears details and absolutely destroys the chroma channels like a pig. If you disable it (-5), it will shows more details than the GH7 but more noise. I received my GH7 and image quality is the same than GH6.

Great comparison. The GH7 is sharper but I prefer the colors of the GH5 overall.

Thank u bro ❤

Wow that looks great I recently had a choice I had the money but decided not to get it just because I just got my GH5 but I was able to up my rig and a couple lenses so Im happy about that for now but man this looks great.

I think we're at a point where image quality is at a plateau. You buy new cameras for the tools and features these days. The image quality for any mid to high end consumer camera made in the past 10 years is going to be great on all of them as long as the user is competent enough.

I'm glad that you were able to pick one up. How well would you say the autofocus work with the Sigma lenses with speed booster?

I have a GH5S, and would love to get some lens recommendations for the 5s and GH7. I'm really leaning on the 7 due to the A focus.

Very interesting, I thought the GH7 had the same detail rendering than the G9II. When I compare both my G9II to my GH5 in C4K, I can see more fine details on the GH5, but more sharpening on the G9II when both are set at -5 sharpening, maybe because I shoot everytime with -5 noise reduction. On your test, the GH5 defintely looks softer even about resolution/fine details. Maybe you could try to test the GH5 with sharpness 0 or noise reduction to -5, I think the GH7 uses a bit more sharpening at -5 than the GH5 because I can see only very small differences between -5 to 0 sharpness on my G9II, however I see a big difference between -5 to 0 on my GH5. Most of the time, I can see more apparent details at 0 sharpness/ -5 noise reduction on my GH5 than on my G9II, adding more sharpening in post on the G9II just make some details oversharpened but never bring back some details I can see on my GH5.

Hi Ken...I am still not convinced to put away my trusty GH5 for something else...am I being stubborn...lol. Thanks for your content...thumbs up.

Great post

Seems the different looks have something to do with the Phase detect or just the new sensor. All the cameras from G9II and S5II have the same colour rendition. And from GH6 downwards have the same colours. It also seems to be what's contributing to the sharpness, because the GH6 has almost, if not the same resolution as per sensor as the GH7, but it still has a soft look like the GH5 too.

The GH5 still looks great but the skin tone rendering is far better on the GH7. Can’t wait to get mine!

I think its little bit annoying, that the standard profile doesnt look as good as on gh5, i mean in terms of colors, but for real tho, the gh7 looks much more detailed, and i think i will buy it aswell, cause it has so many game changing features, i mean like apple prores, thats insanity, i guess if you shoot in prores, the digital sharpness aswell as the internal noise reduction will completiely turn of in prores mode, like how it is on sony cameras with atomos ninja external recorded prores footage, like if you record prores with atomos ninja externaly on sony camera the image comes out is like no noise reduction and digital sharpness, its completitely raw, how i said i guess its the same on gh7 with internal prores than it will look even more cinematic i guess, another crazy thing is, you have cfexpress type b card slot, aswell as external ssd option, thats absolutely game changing. I saw a video on youtube, where someone took the gh7 prores footage, and just changed the iso in the cutting software, i dont know if its possible only on photos, but that looked like it was a video where he just changed the iso afterwards, thats a freakin red camera feature, bro if this is possible, its just the perfect camera, it has it all, expect maybe some color difference, but the advantages this camera brings far outweigh these small problems in my opinion. I would really like to see if you test the prores feature, and show us if this works with changing iso afterwards.

You have much more flexibility with the GH7 because you can make LUT and load them into custom profile. Increase the master pedestal helps a lot to make the image cinematic (I set +15 on my G9ii. The black are too crushed by default)

To much geeking out lol. Good video

Please do low light tests! I've had problems with reds in my GH5. In low light situations, my reds look more orange. I was filming at night on Times Square. The Coca-Cola red color did not look good. Everything else was accurate. I had it on AWB.

Cool!🎉Thank You

Battery life - they essentially have the same battery as each other and hybrids - 2 x 18650 cells in a case. The GH7 has perceptually worse life because it does more processing. Only a matter of time before a manufacturer goes to 3 cell batteries. I’m down.

i guess till now its not the time to upgrade my GH5

The image of the GH7 is far superior