Lumix S5ii review: SO MUCH MORE than AF! 

Aaah this whole trip was so much fun! What would you like me to cover next? I’m thinking some “real time LUT” photo walks and a comparison with the GH6 👀

Nicely filmed Emily, and great to meet you too. Love your sample images and videos. Hah! PS - consider adding some index / chapter points for easier indexing!

Emily this is such a fantastic and detailed review! I love all the real world examples and I feel the same way about IBIS!!

Beautiful photos and wonderful review as usual with the Emily style presentation! REAL TIME LUT IS AMAZING! And it was so great meeting you in person in Japan finally!

Amazing review, footage and photos! One of the best of aaaaallll the reviews I've watched 🙌

Fantastic vid as always Em - I love the time, effort and passion you put in to your projects.

I’m loving this girl in particular… love the way she talks and organize her contents ❤

What an amazing review and your photos and videos are the best I've seen with all of the reviews this camera. Congratulations on being a part of the launch 🥳🥳🥳

Hi there, been following you for a while and you have been a big inspiration for me. Amazing work as always

So glad all my favorite creators got to go to Tokyo. I'm sure it was an unforgettable trip. I'm pre-ordered and can't wait to get my s5ii!

Thx for the nice review. Your channel deserves more people watching it, in my opinion. Greetings from a fellow m4/3 - S5 user from Italy, and keep up the good work!

A lovely video with excellent associated captures along with handy & helpful narrative. Best wishes from down under and have a magical new year 🙏

So glad they got you on this trip! Great footage. Amazing camera but as an S5 owner already I'm in no hurry to upgrade.

great to see you there Emily !!. Your honest and always charm and fun style is a joy to see. I'll keep an eye on this camera, but with Gh6 now are too many options!!

Looks like the camera the world has been waiting for. Thank you for your videos, they are always so nice and relatable. I love nerds.

❤I AM EXCITED 🤩 Congrats with your Panasonic invite, luck you 👍🏻 I am super keen to buy the more film friendly S5-IIX and looking forward to seeing the first round of review videos.✌🏻 Cheers from Western Australia 🇦🇺

Fantastic review. Great balance between technical details and practical considerations.

Best review of this camera IMO. Thanks very much!

I've been watching a lot of these and this has been one of the best so far. Great work.

I adore your content and passion! Thanks so much for sharing insight!

Great review, and I love the name of the channel lol. I am very intrigued with the S5II. Subscribed!

Nice review 🎉. I loved the photo review part of this video. Everyone else don't get as detailed on photo and focus more on video. Thanks for the video.

Very well presented Emily..you've explained things really well! What an exciting product

Wow! Great review! I can't believe you kept this a secret! What a backdrop to film a review! You always visit such incredible locations! You are the reason I shoot in Panasonic, looks like there is another one on my wish list! Also, your hair looks amazing too! Can't wait for the next video!

One of the best reviews right here! Thanks for this! So great meeting you in person in Tokyo! 🔥

Great video Emily! The pictures from Tokyo looked amazing and honestly what Panasonic did with the S5II is terrific, it’s such a capable professional camera but at a quite reasonable price. Would love to see more open gate / reframing stuff, like editing one sequence three ways with widescreen, 16:9, and vertical?

Absolutely brilliant review. Well done! I’m buying the S5 IIX. I currently own the S5 and it’s video quality is breathtaking!

Thanks for another charming and informative videos. I’m excited about the S5II too!

Wow - you got exceptionally interesting footage. And covered some different topics than others. 🥳Beautifully shots, Emily, and so nice to have met you! ❤ cheers! 🎉

Happy to see that you have the opportunity to try this wonderful camera awesome video

Great upload, Emily! Thanks for all your Lumix content...considering an upgrade from G9 and GH5ii to S5ii for low light filming as an astrophotographer, I'm usually out in the dark! Lol! Your vids were invaluable when I started in Micro 4/3 and you're continuing the great content in the full frame game too! :) Best wishes from north of the border! :)

Another great video Emily, thanks. This looks like a great upgrade. One added bonus, this and the original S5 use the same battery. No need to drag two chargers around any more.

Loll love your definition of PDAF😆I'm so glad you were selected to demo this camera!

Lumix did this unveil right. They identified proper genuine influencers in-segment. Nobody who has trust problems. Flew them in. Handed out gear (for keeps, I believe?) Let them be honest. I think it's gonna work out for Lumix on this one.

Thank you for including 1080p in your video review and slo motion test. Many other channels exclude it like the plague but the reality is 1080p is a very useful format for recording video and it's usually where you get more fps but at the cost of resolution which is fine because we often deliver in 1080p for social media anyway.

Great Video Emily! Really enjoyed this.

Your enthusiasm is fantastic.

First time seeing your channel. I love this review. Completely sold on the S5II. Just subbed to your channel.

Love the review I've preordered. I was just in IOM and recognized every landmark including the seal. Great job!

While searching for contents on the S5 II I stumbled upon your channel and really love it! New subscriber here 😊

Great video, I have had mine about 5 months now, still learning!! Please keep the videos for the S5ii coming they help newbies like me so much thanks

Always loved Panasonic, but did sell off all my MFT stuff to go all in with Fuji. I’ve got Nikon DSLR FF and have been looking for a FF mirrorless but AF has always concerned me. However, this camera actually seems stellar! I think it might be the one. The great LUMIX menu, FF, a true hybrid that can now equal Sony at a great price point. Glad you got out to Japan with the usual suspects - amazing for your channel and well deserved. You make great content. Your channel for sure deserves to really grow.

Awesome video Emily! And so cool that you got to go to Tokyo for this!

Subscribed!!! Your work looks amazing 🤩

Literally putting money away every month to order the S5x in May - until then my G9 will have to do :) Also - you’re by far my favorite YTer 💖💖💖 I may be biased because of my love of M4/3

Those photos & B-rolls are gorgeous! Makes me want to fly out there again!! Good meeting you in Tokyo 😀

The autofocus is amazing for the first release of it. I’m going to pre order. However I’d love a range finder version of this

Epic seal. 😋 Great review! Can't wait for the GH7!

I just bought the original S5 a few weeks ago. Couldn’t resist. You knew a new camera was being released because there was fantastic deals on the S5. I love this camera and look forward to upgrading to version two in a couple years when the price comes down like the S5 has now.

Good examples. Your growth as a presenter and professional are great to see.

An excellent video Emily! I currently have an S5 and debating whether to trade in for the S5 II or wait for the the X version due out later this year. This may have tipped me over into the S5 II column. Thanks for posting 🙂

It's also fun to watch people enjoy the magic of good autofocus that just works, no fuss. 😊

I enjoyed your assessment of the new camera. I hope the PDAF trickles down to the 4/3 cameras

So I've found your channel after seeing you on a few other YTer's videos from the Panasonic announcement in Tokyo. This video came up as a suggestion... I found your presentation of the camera in this video to be the best of any. I've subbed and I look forward to seeing more content. cheers-Dave K

Great work Em and awesome to meet you in merry old Japan. :)

Excellent review. Interesting about the LUT for stills, thank you for mentioning this feature. I thought your still images and video of Tokyo scenes were lovely.

I just want to thank you for your amazing 'Open Gate' diagram and explanation. First person to walk me through it in a way my dim self could understand.

I didn't know about the LUT for photos! That's awesome! Super useful for food blogging.

Finally a review that focused on photography! Looks really neat, might relegate my Fuji film to my b camera for photography!

Love it, Love it, Love it!! So good to watch, you are very natural. You should be a RU-vidr when you grow up! I feel very privileged to see my face in it! Thank you Emily!

I think you’re camera review style is my favorite of the like 24 people I’ve watched.

Awesome review!!! ❤🙏🏼

Great review! Loving this camera. As an S5 and G9 user, I love what this means for the future of Lumix. I'm wondering now what's next for the FF lineup. Will we see a flagship model with this AF system? I'd love to see a higher-MP S1ii or S1Rii. What do you think? Thanks for the review and awesome you got this opportunity! Very jealous!

Finally!!! Thanks to Panasonic and to you for making this video!! I have not upgraded cameras in 9-10years as I feel nothing was checking all the boxes. But this does!

glad you had a great time in japan!

Excellent review. As an S5 & GH6 videographer this was so useful. Thank you.

Great video! Thanks. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to getting one myself.

Great review, thank you. I will wait up to the first real world tests with the fibal edition of the LUMIX S5 II X.

Wonderful video Emily! I'm sorry we didn't meet in Tokyo. Your presets are lovely, and you've already updated them with LUTs, wow! So I've just purchased and will include them in my next video about the S5II. Cheers!

Wonderful review!

Great review! I’m tempted to get one and slap a nice long lens on it!

At 3:04 you took this amazing long exposure - absolutely great

would a gh5 lens fit on this camera?

Great Review!!! Congrats!!!!

Very good auto focus, great video as always ✌🏼

Ermigod the want is strong with this one! Great review.

Fantastic news!! Now I need one. Might sell an s5 body and upgrade. Great video.

Thanks! Video looks awesome. This camera was already a steal at $2k, but it's on sale for the holidays here in the US for only $1,697! You can also bundle several lenses for not much more. I got the 50 1.8 for an extra $47, so only $1,747 total which is incredible. Best bang for the buck by a mile.

Great video!

Hi Emily! Thanks for the review! Awesome video btw, regardless of the content. It was quite up beat and colorful, and the skin tones you get from this camera is really nice! I have a couple of quick questions though: Does this camera support the little Olympus FL-LM3 flash? Also, does is support linking the Focus Point to the Auto Exposure system (like exposing for the face when it is detected?)

Great video, so pleased Panasonic have finally gone PDAF. love the open gate thing as well, very useful for reframing. I was wondering when someone would give us a basically full sensor readout at 25fps. Amazing.

Great video, the photos from Tokyo was amazing. The camera is great I wish they include the 4k60p with no crop anyway I think is the right camera to upgrade from my gh5.

Awesome pictures and review. I still have a g85.. Maybe is finally time to upgrade

I’m in love❤❤….with the G9ii/GH6ii that could have all the S5ii’s goodies… and of course, Emily too😊👍

strong work!

Emily I’m so glad to watch your video! Would you say the s5ii’s hd120p-180p (cropped 180 is sharper i hear) is a sharp as the gh6 hd120-300fps? (Gh6 4k 120 is def sharper lol)

One of the few I'll watch :) Can't believe how many people they paid to go to Japan. Glad you got to go!!!

Excellent introduction to this new model, I wanted to know if the excellent functions of time lapse and live view composite are still implemented. Thank you.

So impressed and has me drooling 🤤

Beautiful pictures :) Thanks for metioning my favorite menu function, I love it on my S1H and really miss on S1.Does camera also remember different settings in video mode and photo mode or it keeps current settings after switching mode?

GREAT Video, it was a fun trip!

Thanks for the video. Excellent work. I just shot a feature film on the S5. I shot into the Ninja V so I was getting FULL FRAME, 5.9k RAW Proress 422, 12 bit at 400 Mbs. The image is poetry. Mind blowing at this price. I don't use auto focus and I don't like that they are charging for the RAW output on this S5Mk II. I just don't think I need an update. As a narrative filmmaker, who always needs a monitor (Ninja) on the camera for framing and focusing, the first S5 is all I will need, probably, for the next 5 years, and, for the price drop you will now see on the original S5, you can get a Ninja and go for the FULL FRAME, 5.9k RAW Proress 422, 12 bit at 400 Mbs.

You are killing these reviews, informative, outside the box usage thinking with your lovely personality and sense of humour in the driving seat. The IOM TT will soon sneak up, try the slow mo then!! On that note, I wonder how well the auto human and eye detect focus works on subjects wearing crash helmets, i’m thinking sports photography. I use the G9 when I go to BSB but use zone focus more often than not, still homing those skills, which can be a bit hit and miss, we’ll for me at least. So do you get to keep the s52 or will you buy one, would love to see more on this camera from you in future as a potential owner and L mount system belonger!! ? Thanks, the Lumix ambassadors do a great job and your amongst the top ones in my humble view. 👏

Great video Emily 🙏. I'm following you from good lens collection days of MFT. You have a lot of experience with Panasonic systems I can say. In your future videos I'll love to see if you cover the following topics: *Test all the existed full frame Panasonic lenses for performance with new Panasonic S5MII phase autofocus engine in day and night environments both photo and video. *Open gate shooting style possibilities with this new camera as much of the audience like me are in search of a tool with fast social media content creation. *slow motion capabilites of this camera with phase detect with different subjects, multi subjects as create cinematic feel.This feature is available as S&Q option on dial but how it performs with new auto focus. *Live crop is my favorite, if possible please cover that topic with new phase detect. It is much used feature as save lot of time in post. What new codec it covers with it. Is 4k live crop Panasonic added with this new S5MII or still full HD? If it is still full HD please inform Panasonic research team to add 4K or 6K live cropping in S5 mark 2 with an update. I know they are listening to you. I know I've requested a lot but I'm excited my favourite system now have a phase detect autofocus. And you are the best who can explain all in detail. Thank you Emily for all the great videos 🙏.

Perfect camera. Lumix for life.

great video, good photos

Finally! :) I think I know what I'm getting for christmas. Better star saving tho... ;)

I’ll be getting the s5iix next month, but considering to also upgrade the GH5 to a gh6 would you recommend that?? Heard gh6 had plenty of issues ? So by next month I’ll have the s5iix and the gh6 (if I don’t get the gh6 then I’ll still have the gh5) hoping they all pair well. As I still want to keep my MFT camera

Hey Emily, can you verify whether the S5 ii still has the "live view composite" feature? On the original S5, that was essentially a really awesome way to use a sort of bulb mode. So far however, in regards to this camera no one has mentioned the feature in these initial reviews and I can't find any mention of it online. Fantastic review! Your production value just keeps getting better and better!

Olympus also has PD+CD hybrid albeit that first came out with that many years ago. Do we see this differential baked in to the panny? Pannys CD was already plenty good for photography, in fact better than PD on some measures. I wonder if hybriding it might have handicapped it in some aspects. Only time will tell I suppose.