Panasonic GH5 Review (After 6 Months!) 

For the people wondering. We do use 2 x GH5 for the live streams :P

Whatever The Camera Store is paying these guys, it isn't enough. Spectacular review as always.

This was phenomenal. Thank you so much. Buying a GH5 today because of this video....PANASONIC SHOULD SPONSOR YOU!!!

These two guys always arguing about stills and videos are purely awesome

I always questioned myself whether the GH5 was the correct decision, now thanks to this video, I realise how perfect a choice it was!! Cheers guys thank you for showing me some awesome tips that I didn't realise my camera could even do!!

18:26 for better visibility of focus peaking I turn the EVF/Screen to black and white and focus peaking to green. That improved my manual focus a lot

Best camera reviews on the internet. Great job as always.

Been hanging out for this video. Well worth the wait. Thanks men.

Nice job Chris and Jordan. Love your camera reviews!

Nice job guys. Looks like you covered everything. Now I don’t have to review it. Actually I might just review the 10 bit and then link to this video.

bloody legends you are guys. this is the first of your reviews i've seen and i'm so happy to actually give my time watching people who actually know what they're talking about and deserve my scarce time and attention. subscribed.

GREAT review! Very thorough. Thanks for the clarification on 8-bit versus 10-bit. Great to see Jordan in front of the camera too. Excellent give-and-take for a real conversation on the good and bad of the GH5. Thank you!

This was just so well done - thank you! I have watched many, many camera reviews on RU-vid and yours is among the best if not the best. Please keep up the great work :-)

Great review! I am so happy you guys covered the anamorphic part!

Thanks guys, I shoot with a FZ2500 but, I have learned so much from you both. I appreciate the time you give to the cameras in your reviews

Brilliant review. Not often do I have the attention span to watch a 34 minute review but this was worth every second. Clear, authoritative and concise information about every key fact of this camera makes this my favourite review yet. I will be buying this camera now on the strength of your review. Thankyou.

Great video guys. Loved all the info and b-roll.

Just ordered my GH5. Cannot WAIT to get it! Great review guys!!

Man I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for the upload guys

Gr8 stuff... I always look forward to your reviews. I've had my GH5 since its release and love it~!

Great review. Thanks for all the work that went into this and all the ground you covered.

This is what I'm waiting for a long time from TCSTV, thank you!!!

On the point of audio, there's no other channel that takes audio as seriously as you guys! Thank you for that!!

Excellent review! Thanks for all your hard work - it was a joy to watch! :)

You guys both did a great job with the content in this review!

Nice... Great review Chris and Jordan. Your love of LUMIX has changed a lot since leaving TCSTV.

This video is GAME CHANGING!!!

Recently got myself a GH5 and share your views. Absolutely a amazing camera and best camera there is for video under 10K

I haven't watched your videos in a year and it feels like I'm watching a video from an old friend. Haha glad you guys are still at it

That was easily, the best review out there. Thank you guys for all the information.

Thank you guys for the review. I’ve been planning on buying a GH5 for video and this review helped me make that decision!

Incredible review, so much information. You are the best. Thanks for revealing the GH5 is the landmark camera.

I am only a stills photographer and I bought the GH5 as my action camera - mainly for wildlife photography where it excels. I have to say that the ergonomics are excellent and if you are a serious/pro photographer this is an excellent package for stills.

I don't know half the shit you guys are talking about, but thanks for making these videos.

Such a thorough review! Loved it

Great review guys. I've had my GH5 for years, but every time I watch you guys, I learn more and more. I have mostly used my GH5 as a picture camera, but tomorrow, I am filming a "drive by" burthday for my grandson. No birthday parties, as we are on lock-down here on L.I. N.Y. I hope my brief video comes out good enough to share with family and friends. Thanks for your help.

We took a GH5 to europe with us and a PXW-x70 (bought both from you guys), I'm almost certain that we busted out the x70 one time. The biggest reason was, if we didn't know what the situation was going to be like at the venue we were going, the stabilization inside the camera allows us to know that we will have useable and stable footage. People moan about the autofocus, here and there it was troublesome, but with literally every camera, the autofocus is not perfect, I would never have noticed autofocus issues if other people weren't complaining about it; you just have to know how to use the autofocus modes.

Great review boys! For me the best overall review for this camera, loved it, thanks so much for the work you put in. Cheers John

It was worth the wait, great review guys. Also, Chris your daughter has a beautiful smile.

Loved it! Awesome review!!!

Great job guys - you guys deliver real information compellingly well. As a long time GH 2,3, 4 and now 4 months 5 user: The only downsides from my gh4 and 5s is certain clients being put off by the compact size of the camera (it doesn't happen often) - sometimes CEOS or agencies ( and their team of minions) NEED to see a C300, fs 7 or anything bigger to make them feel important. I just throw a cheap mattebox and cage on mine with some audio modules hanging off it, ditch the pancakes for the larger zooms and clients generally wont feel disrespected. But when I am gathering content / cutaways for myself the small form factor is totally liberating. I have the panny 12-35, 35-100 but am coming around to the look of the Olympus glass and focus action (the Oly 7-14 is a real estate gem) - might have to look at that Olympus 12-100!

As always you guys are informative and fun to watch..

Thanks for the review. I wondered why you hadn't done one in all this time - now it makes sense.

I absolutely love and appreciate your work guys, keep it up the both of you !!! Amazing!! 😊😊

Well done guys! - Worth the wait!

Been thinking about buying the GH5 for a while. This has to be the best honest review I've seen. Thank you

Whoa TCS video at this hour? Wasn't expecting this!

Damn, they actually killed it on this review. So much important information talked about.

Brilliant! Thanks for the photo capability breakdown as well!

Great work guys! Thank's for the review! Many greetings from Germany!

Great review guys! I'm considering a GH5 at the moment so thanks for posting this.

Best reviews period.

you guys make awesome camera equipment reviews very geniune and not at all biased keep up good work

Such a good review. The wait was really worth it!

Nice in-depth review. Thanks guys.

Great review. I too have a love for mine that I want to gush about it. I’m amazed at the results I’m getting.

Ive never given a fuck to watch anyone on youtube for more than 3 minutes without skipping to their demo shots and since I'm looking to buy a GH5.. I found myself watching a very relevant video from start to finish. Thank you!

Great work, team.

Thanks guys. Another great review video.

You guys are the best. I don't want people to come and see my channel for reviews. I do impression videos but if they want a good detailed, objective technical review, you guys are the only people to go see. Stills and video by the way!

Great video! I've never considered micro 4/3rds, but this looks like a great all-rounder camera for producing RU-vid content. Videos like this remind me why you guys are my favorite photography channel on RU-vid. :)

That intro walk n' talk was featured way back in the 7d mark 2 vid. I know my TCS episodes.

Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video. From a still photographers perspective it actually sounds like an equally if not better cam then the E-M1.2. C-AF is something that has got me worried for shooting sports and birds but might be worth a try anyway. GH5 all in all seems to have the best ergonomics in the business and the best use of touchscreen features. Thanks again!

Very informative review!

Good Job on this, very thorough.

I need a GH5! Love my little G85... but g'damn I need a GH5! Thanks for review!

YESSSSSSS FINALLLYY!!!

Great review. thank you for your efforts.

Great review, guys!

Was waiting for this review, very informative as always! I have had a GH5 since it came out in April and got V-Log L for it as well. I used to have a GH4 (with a Atomos Ninja 2 for 1080p 10-bit 4:2:2 and V-Log L) I so knew what I might expect from using it. I also knew from the contrast detect focus for video, how to focus manually and never to rely on AF. From my experience from using a GH5: 1. Less shadow noise over the GH4. This is great and lets me have more options in pushing shadows in editing, especially using V-Log L. I have noticed some magenta blocks in shadows when shooting V-Log L which can take time to remove in editing (maybe macro blocking?) 2. No reddish color cast. I noticed the GH4 had a reddish color cast to the images/video which the GH5 no longer has. I also noticed skin tones slooked a little orange on the GH4 too. With the GH5, there are better skin tones, but I still prefer RAW photos or V-Log L for best skin tones, which do look quite good. 3. Colors are defiantly improved and better than on the GH4. I still am no overly keen on the colors other than in V-Log L or RAW as they tend to have a slight cool cast which I am no over keen on. 4. More detail and sharper. I have defiantly noticed an increase in sharpness and detail over the GH4. 5. Auto focus is a bit better in video, but not useful. I was prepared for this as I knew how contrast only focus works, especially coming from a GH4 and manually focus 90% of the time, so I am not the kind of person who was expecting anything great with it or need it, except when I am taking in front of the camera. 6. I like the addition of a waveform monitor, but I find it takes up too much of the screen so haven't used it. Probably limitations of a waveform monitor on a small screen. 7. IBIS is great to have. When I was using a GH4, I stuck to IS only lenses for video and photos to avoid shake, but now I have 4 lenses and only one has IS, and have started using Olympus lenses such as the 12-40 f/2.8 Pro and 60mm Macro which don't have IS, to replace my Panasonic lenses I have which did (12-35 MK I and 30mm Macro) even used a Metabones T Smart Adaptor with an old Sigma 105mm EX DG Macro lens I have (original without IS) and had no real issues with shake. I have found on wide angle lenses when shooting video while walking, there is a slight wobble at the edges of the image with the IBIS, but far better than not having it. I was able to take a handheld wide angle photo in a forest in low light for 1/6 second with the Olympus 12-40 at f/4 and it was sharp. Couldn't do that without the IBIS. 8. I love the addition of focus transitions. I always wanted to do focus pulls with my GH4, but couldn't due to fly by wire lenses having no hard stops or focus distance indicators on the lenses, but now this makes it much easier. I do wish you could see your exposure while in this mode as when I am shooting V-Log L, I always like to make sure I am 1 stop overexposed and can't always tell if the lighting suddenly changes (I rarely shoot in controlled lighting and shoot outdoors). I have used this feature a few times already and will again. 9. 10-bit internally. I really like that it can do internal 10-bit, especially at 4K. I have recently tried the 400Mbps ALL-I with a ADATA Premier One V90 256GB SD and really I didn't find any improvement in image quality over the 150Mbps, I did notice the motion may be slightly better. I noticed than when editing, in the timeline I go to any point of the ALL-I video and if it was in focus and sharp, there wasn't any blur, except for objects moving faster than the camera shutter speed, but with the 150Mbps, there was slightly more blur. Other than that, I saw no other improvements over 150Mbps. 10. I have shot more photos with this than I have with my GH4 and quite like the results you can get in RAW and take lots of macro photos with it and recently have been looking around for fungi and getting lots of shots, many in low light with slow shutter speeds and low ISO to keep noise down, and getting very good, sharp results. The photo AF is really good and quite fast, especially with Panasonic lenses that have fast AF. I have used 6K photo and I could see that it could be useful, if the AF was better as that could be useful for sports or fast moving wildlife so you can pull that one interesting image from the rest. I do wish they had kept the built in flash as although I didn't use it much on the GH4, there were times having it was quite useful, but I have learned to work without it. I have also shot time lapses with it and on a fully charged battery, 20MP, shooting 1 second bursts, I shot a sunrise time lapse that way and I was getting 7877 images before the battery died. Overall I wish Panasonic had have put in phase detect focusing with fast accurate video focus, and had at least 1 stop better low light/ 1 stop better dynamic range, and I hope that comes to the next GH camera, but overall I really like it.

Great review from real users! Your experiences from real world use cases set your reviews apart from so many other tech-testers, who only compare specs or concentrate on vlogging.

Great vid, love how they are longer now... keep it up!

Thank you for this GH5 review and I hope the firmware updates keep coming to it. I am definitely getting this camera within the next four months. Along with the Nikon D750

Awesome review, dudes! Gh5 is the most versatile camera out there, I think!

Looking to buy my first pro video camera and found you guys. You sure do know your stuff. This has helped me even though I only understood maybe 50% of what you said. Thanks guys loved the blog :-)

I've spent a good deal of time over the last couple of weeks considering whether to purchase a Micro Four Thirds camera, and this one in particular. This review has made it much easier to make a decision. Doesn't matter what I've decided, only that this review has covered all of the major issues in a way that I have not seen rivaled elsewhere. It has been very helpful.

Great review, covered so much helpful info. Thumbs up =)

2 years later, and with the GH6 not far away, the GH5 is still the standard other manufacturers are trying to beat, and with varying degrees of success. The A7S III is arguably the only camera that has finally exceeded the GH5 video quality/frame rates/usefulness and versatility, but still lags in important features like anamorphic support, shutter angle, stop motion etc etc. It is also evidence of who is leader of the pack in the way the A7S III copied the menu structure and methodology from the GH5. And now, 2 years later, I am looking at purchasing a GH5 despite the impending drop of its replacement. I figure that I may decide to get the GH6 in the long run, but the GH5 will remain a workhorse Bcam for years to come, so I will not have lost anything. Going beyond cameras, this conversational style review, after 2 years, is also still the exemplar of the very best review on any camera. Other reviewers have tried to reach this level, but none have fully succeeded in reaching this quality of discussion and the way it reveals both the strengths and weaknesses of the camera, and what that means in real world use. I fully expect this review to remain the benchmark against which other reviews are compared for many years to come. It is fitting that a truly great camera is met by an equally great review. Thank you guys.

From South Korea! Didn’t even skip even single moment during the watching. This review just convinced me to purchase gh5. Even though AF is gonna be main issue, firmware 2.1 make much better improvements. Thanks for your work guys!

Awesome still. 6 years later. What I love about this camera the most is that it seems to stand the test of time. The gh5 never feels like an old camera. I use one as a backup for my s5, and it just doesn't seem like I'm keeping something around just because I don't want to let it go. Honestly, I just bought it recently, for $467, and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. Fun to watch this review, to see that Panasonic created something amazing almost a decade ago. Well, just over a half a decade. :-)

As usual, fantastic. Good work you two. I aways enjoy your insight, knowledge, and presentation. Considered the gh5 but went xt2. Pics are my hook. Can't wait for the next one. Ya'll are better than Abbot and Costello. Keep em flyin.

You guys are the best camera reviewers out there. I wish you would produce camera courses to sell. A GH5 Course on how to setup the camera, and go over each feature would be awesome!!

I just bought it today absolutely beautiful camera

Great vid guys!

Awesome review !

Best review of gh5 I came across.

Great review guys. I fall into the likely very small group of people who is thrilled to have tethering and use this camera for studio photography. Like you said, it is great that Panasonic adds features in, just because they can, even when it seems like a small minority requires or will use them. I used to always just use the WiFi on my GH4 to remote transfer files to my desktop as I was doing studio shots but it was super slow transferring so it is nice to have the USB-C connection now. Of course, I also do video work with it which is why I haven't moved to a different system, but its how well rounded this camera is that makes it appealing to me. If I had to pick two categories where I find it to be lacking they would be wedding and wildlife photography only because of the poor low light performance. Everything else I use it for has been fantastic.

Great review you guys, I was actually really looking forward to hearing the stills capabilities of the GH5! I only wish you would have given a sense of the quality of the stills by comparing it with other cameras mainly known for stills (either mirrorless or DSLRs e.g. picture quality overall is similar of what you get from a [insert model here] or a [insert model here]). But again awesome work, as always!!

Epic review guys, thanks! At 9.40 into the video. 120 fps 10 bit, how? Is that even possible?

Ah, you can always count on quality stuff from TCSTV. Another epic video. I do like your unbiased comments for the auto focus tracking and low light issue. The GH4 is great, the GH5 is even better. For vlogging and low light work, choose other gear for that.

Camera of the year!

Great video folks

top notch reviews.

That was one seriously excellent review- and a joy to watch throughout. (even though I skipped the photo part :-) Compliments to you guys! Really curious to see/hear what your setup for run 'n gun is- walking around with the Sigma 18-35 + mics without any support?

great energy. nicely done.

Thanks for the review after the latest firmware update

Awesome review guys. Would've liked a comparison with the EM1ii since they're similar price points, but other than that really great stuff.

nice , incredibly thorough

Great job guys👍🏾

Best camera review of a 6 mo old product, no doubt, you guys are the best in the biz!