Lenses for the PANASONIC GH5 - WHAT I use and WHY (2020 edition) 

What is your favorite lens you own?

@1:06 Rokinon 85mm t1.5 (equivalent of 170mm, uses as zoom lens) @1:54 Helios 44-2 (Vintage lens for cinematic look, swerling bookeh) @2:51Lumix 25mm f1.7 (only pana lens he has, 50mm equiv on crop lens) @3:55 Rokinon 12mm t2.2 (24mm equiv, his fav focal length. Versatile, wide but not too wide) @5:49 SLR Magic 8mm f4 (Ultra wide, 8mm and no fisheye [rare], sparks creativity)

25mm f1.7 is king! It continues to surprise me..especially for the price of it. I got it with my GH4 back in 2016 and now using it with my GH5 and I couldn't be more happy!

I never get tired of vintage lens comparisons and talk!

It's awesome that u do full reviews on every lense

I just got the laowa 7.5. It's amazing. I recommend it for gh5.

Vintage lens series, YES!!! Nobody has done it yet, and we really need some tests and guides on the subject. If I can make a request, I have a massive interest in vintage lenses used with a speedbooster. I really want to capture the swirly bokeh of the Helios 44-M4 with my GH5... We still don't know if you can adapt multiple mounts (with multiple FFD) on a single speedbooster. E.g. using a Viltrox EF-M2 and a bunch of cheap adapters (M42 to EF, Praktica to EF, Nikon G to EF etc). The glass-less adapters should account for the change in FFD, but perhaps the rear element of each lens must have a specific distance of it's own from the speedbooster's glass... It'd be great to know which lenses have swirly bokeh (Helios, Industar, Zeiss Biotar, some projection lenses), which have bubble bokeh (some Takumar lenses). Other unique characteristic of vintage lenses...and so on.

Thank you so much! I'm anxiously awaiting my GH5 and am researching lenses. This video was great and helped me so much! Keep creating!

oh, and current fav LUMIX M43 lens, the new 10-25mm f1.7 - almost never take it off the GH5 now..

for some reason I've only just come across your content, as a fellow GH5 geek, and I'm hooked, love the chilled out format and great personal insights mixed with facts / stats, look forward to many more of these from you ;-)

I like vintage lens. Just started watching this video, and have not checked your channel, but yes a series on vintage lenses would work.

Love this video. Definitely saved me a couple hundred bucks!

Thanks for some other lens ideas !! I have the 25mm f1.7...I like it..but don’t use it as often as the 14 - 46mm. (Both LUMIX - on a G7.) The 14 - 46 worked good for the vlogs we did...and the 25mm is nice for b-roll or tripod shots...talking head type stuff...good bokeh! I like the Panasonic a lot!! To me the feel of them and the ease of use is great! Pretty intuitive. Just wish they had better auto focus!

Great content. Bro!!!! Best lens I EVER BOUGHT FOR GH5... SIGMA 18-35! MONSTER LENS! STAYS ON MY GH5!

Great job, son! Beautiful couple! Mom

Dude, you should get the Panasonic LEICA 12-60MM and the Panasonic 35-100mm f2.8. I've got those two together with the 25mm f1.7 and the 7Artisans 7,5mm f2.8 which is currently my most used lens (and used for studio shots). The combination of those lenses gives me so much range, it's awesome. Hardly use the 25mm though since the 12-60mm LEICA has a great range and is good enough for most lighting situations. I understand that everyone their personal situation might lead to different needs, but there hasn't been a single moment in which I went like: "I need X and Y lens".

Dood! Love the lineup! YAAASSS on the vintage lens video. I actually just shot a vintage lens video this past weekend on a family walk. On a Minolta 50mm. I had a hard time with that focal length cuz I'm not used to shooting telephoto. But anyway, it was fun. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the vintage for GH5.

so many lenses to chose from i’m so overwhelmed😭😭😭

I am loving this video!

Thanks for the breakdown man! Looking for some new lenses!

if you place a - symbol before the word you want to omit it will make your google searches easier when you want to search for something specific. Also, the Olympus 7-14 2.8 is a super wide option for the GH5 without being a fish eye. It does have some distortion at 7mm but nothing crazy if used for the correct shots.

Panasonic 10-25 1.7 & Olympus 40-150 both has manual focus clutch and AF tracking are super fast.

how sharp is the 8mm lens? I got the 7artisan 7.5mm and it is too soft! Not particularly good for photos.

the Rokinon 85mm t1.5 link goes to the 35mm page

I am into vintage lens

WHOOP WHOOP SLR Magic for the win!

With your first zoom lens, go big or go home😁 Lumix 100-400mm lens. BTW how did the RU-vid algorithm make this pop up. But happy it did. 😁

Type a minus before the word fisheye, like this >>> -fisheye to exclude the word fisheye...or any other word(s)...from your search.

Great video! Question. I bought a GH5 camera a Viltrox EF-M2 and soon the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 Canon EF. What other lenses would you recommend that are essential and good for making short films? Thanks!

i can really relate to your blooper 🤣

Man! what a lineup and you only had that camera for 5 minutes!! P.S. Why does your voice go higher when you say "weird" lol ;)

GREAT video. Appreciated. By the way... just a thought, the camera is a little bit down (in my opinion) I would like mor eto the eye level. Liked and suscribed.

Hi i liked your video. Its doing well. I am now using nikon d750 for photography. But i would like to get a good mirorless camera for video especially for solo interviews, travel, tehch purposes. Is it advisable to go for GH5?

Cool video man. Just discovered your channel, a lot of great content for sure. Subscribing! :) I actually have both the Helios 44-2 and the SLR Magic 8mm f/4, but I find my copy of the latter flares like CRAZY! Or rather, as soon as something bright hits the bulbous front element, the entire image gets washed out and loses all contrast. Is your version the same I wonder? Cheers /Fred

I'm into Vonage lenses

Hi there. What lense under $1000 for do you recommend for gh5 specially for short films ? Thank you.

Funny. I have G80 and none of these lens. My favorites (I don't care much about video): 20mm/f1.7 is nice, lightweight, sharp lens with enough background separation with super slow and noisy focus and problems while focusing in the dark. great for social events and challenging yourself to think about composition and where to stand. useless for video Oly 45mm/f1.8 is nice portrait lens, good for kids as well 12-35/f2.8 is versatile low light lens for winter and bad weather, i just don't like bokeh and lens flares ... actually it's not my favorite, maybe most used in long term, but combining other three lenses in this list is better 12-60/f3.5-5.6 is versatile travel lens, as sharp as 12-35 and not suffering from lens flare, i recently rate it above previous one My not so favorite old 14-45/3.5-5.6 is nothing special, on GF1 one side was less sharp, on G5 it was ok, but I always used 12-35 due to superior low light performance, sharpness and better IS 45-200/f4-5.6 is too heavy and not sharp above 120mm. it has very niche use, i either regret not having it with myself or carrying extra half kilogram, but some of my better photos were taken with this one (usually lonely trees) What I'd like to have (too expensive for not being versatile): 35-100/f2.8 any high quality and lightweight telephoto laowa 7.5/f2 sigma 16/f1.4 - i'm afraid it's big and heavy and close to 20mm/f1.7 pana 25/f1.4 - again, close to 20/f1.7 pergear 25/f1.8 - yet again, but this might be fun to use

You should raise your camera up slightly or lower your chair since it feels like we are looking up your nose.

I agree with your lense choice, but if I see 5 more seconds of slow motion footage I'm going to barf!

I have the samyang 2.2 cine lens which is the same bloody thing lol. Love it really nice lens, use it for all my YT vids

Which focus reducer do you use? One from metabones?

I am about to get the GH5 but I am torn on what lens I should get. I really only have the budget for one lens, which one should I get?

Do you need a adapter for any of those lenses or they fit on the GH5?

I’m a new Sony shooter but i like the collection of lenses. I need a good lense for b-roll any suggestions that won’t kill the pocket ? Lol

No Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95 Nokton?

Human eye focal length is 22mm, not 50mm

Do you need adapter for the rokinon?

Do you use for you lenses speedbooster ?

once saw a guy with a mnp 1-B

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Every gh5 users they have 18-35 sigma and canon lens

Do you need an adaptor to fit the Helios 44-2 lens for the GH5?

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PLEASE, just please... don't say Bok-HA anymore. It's Bok-EH, as in B-Okay, but with an H instead of the Y.

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Dude, that transition with offset overlapped audio/video at 1:50 to 1:53 was horrible, made me physically react badly. Generally like your videos (though this is only the second I've watched, subscribed already), but that 3 seconds was not good! :-D