Panasonic Lumix GH6 In-depth Review 

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Thank you for this review. Most of what I have seen and read about the GH6 is so focused on the video elements, I have not seen much that helps me regarding the photography elements. This very well balanced review answered all my questions and gave me plenty to think about.

This is by far the best review of the GH6 that I've seen since it's release! Thank you for all the effort and time you put into doing this video. I never owned the original GH5, but I do have the GH5s and GH5 II and I never thought the AF was as bad as everyone was saying. I think the AF performance from the original GH5 really left a bad taste and the whole "DFD AF sucks" just became a meme that people kept repeating that I think is not completely warranted. I don't know if you have the popular Sigma 18-35mm + Speedbooster lens combination, but I would like to see how well or poorly GH6 AF works with that combination. Fantastic work! Thank you!

Thank you for this excellent review. It is the most compete review I have seen for the GH6 so far. Great explanation of the various benefits of the GH6, and I will view this review again many times.

Best review of the autofocus on the GH6 out there right now - good work Richard!

A very, very good review! Probably the best GH6 camera test I have seen. Thanks for a great job!

What a great review Richard. I can't imagine how much time you put into this. Thank you for your time and effort. Excellent.

As always, Richard - so well thought out and delivered. Thank you!!

I am mind blown with how much you have covered with this review! and how well you have done it!

Thank you Richard, for a very comprehensive, detailed and insightful review of the GH6.

This is such an awesome video. Thanks!

Great review. So much photo information I haven't seen anywhere else, too. Which is very helpful. Thanks!

I have the GH6. I mainly use it for videos though. Its a capable stills camera, people mainly buy that for making videos. Myself included to be honest.

Incredible effort! What a resource for the community!

Wonderful review. Great job and completely informative. I’m going to pre order one.

Amazing review! Best by far the best review! you put in soo much work for this video very informative I watched the whole thing! I wish I could like this video 1000 times! 👍🏼 I will be be that gh6!! 🙌🏼

Excellent review. Thank you for the effort you put in.

Another great and detailed vid by you Richard - Nice work :)

Extremely good and deep review! thank you for this really big job!

Thanks for excellent review!! This was a very useful review for my future use of the GH6!

Fantastic review, Richard.

Excellent review Richard. Exciting times.

This is the best review of this camera.

Superb review. Thanks for the hard work.

What a comprehensive review ! Thank you !

Excellent review Richard. Very in depth. I would like to see more testing around focus-limiter feature though. No one else has done any rigorous testing around it, so i can't blame you! Best wishes

Best GH6 review out there. Thank you 🔥

This is the very best, most detailed GH6 review on RU-vid. Take my like and sub!

Outstanding review: comprehensive, objective, logical, & very clearly presented. Thanks,

Dziękuję Ci Richard-prezentacja najlepsza do tej pory, którą widziałem !

Thanks Richard!! Very well made!!!

Great review! The best AF tests on youtube! 🏆

Excellent thank you for your hard work and time in making this review..

Great content, Richard Wong! Like many others, I have been waiting for this camera for years. Originally, I invested in Panasonic Lumix G lenses with the G95 to ease into this system. The GH6 seems well worth the wait and price .Thank you so much for putting in all the time that was required to give this detailed information.

Best detailed review of the GH6. Thankyou.

Espectacular review, thanks!

Epic review Richard!

Thank you so much for the great review!!

Great review Richard, I especially like the way you do actual tests and comparisons to show what a nice camera this is. Most of the other reviewers just talk too much :)

Thanks for this review. I have done my homework. Attended it all. Good luck 🤞.

Best review of gh6 ever

This is an informative review.

Thank u so much. Was very helpful

I watched the whole thing twice. It was better the 2nd time. Thank you very much. I just got mine a week ago and I'm feeling good about it. Love my GH5 too.

Watched right to the end :-) good work, mate.

I appreciate your detailed video. I ordered my GH6 today.

A mighty review. Thank you (subscribed) ❤️ 🙏

Great review... thanks a lot!

Jesus Richard 1h37m I need to go to bed now will watch tomorrow!!!

thank you so much for your effort! i have to come back to watch the whole video XD so detailed.. thanks man^^

Great review! thanks

Hi Richard. I've now watched all the big guys reviews of the GH6. Yours is by far the best. You never cease to surprise and amaze me. [Just try to get that "th" sound in focal length and it would be perfect. You do make great efforts to speak slow and clear I know!} LOK has the 2nd best review. And the camera store's video guy is 3rd best.

Richard, again you prove why you're the best reviewer going. You manage to juggle all the techno-speak yet remain entertaining. One thing I'd say I've notice is that most important improvement over the GH5 is skin tones - they're vastly better. I owned the GH5 for 2 years and never could quite rid the image of the sickly green/yellow tones. The color baked in no matter what. Now the color may (or may not) still be burned in, but man do the color look better. GH6 looks to be THE run and gun camera.... until the S5 mark II any way. Still don't know if the GH6 is actually more cinematic than something like the Blackmagic 4K (still amazed by the image that camera can produce), but it's a lot closer than the GH5, which always looked "video-ish" ro my eyes. Great review.

I’m glad they allow SD cards as it allows me to use with existing cards from GH5.

Best coverage on the GH6 thus far

Excellent review indeed, much appreciated! :) It was particularly useful for me, as I'm still using a G85 and looking into upgrading to GH6. Of course, the thinking is should I stay with M43 and so benefit of the whole set of lenses I already have or move to the FF and then start all over again! :) So, your comparison was very useful and thank you for the time you took for such in-depth review!

Fantastic review, Richard! It was fascinating to see the performance compared to the A1, since while in AF-C the tracking was a bit slower it was still equally reliable to the A1, but the GH6’s IBIS was so much more effective in video. I guess that is one area Panasonic has always been class leading, but that was incredible, and even compared to the results with the S5 which I had thought was quite impressive when I saw your original tests. Adding to that the the high res photo mode, VFR, and all the video formats and external recording options, they really crammed a lot of new tech into the camera. In a way, it seems a bit similar to when the GH4 came out; there were other cameras that had the specs of the GH4, but not at that price point, and again especially for video, the GH6 is really competing with a lot of much more expensive cameras. I think it says a lot that you were comparing it to the Z9, A1, and R5 throughout the review.

Great work.

Bammm! That’s what I call a in-depth review! Thank U!

Awesome review! 👍

I feel this was the most unbiased review. Neither leaning GH fanboy or GH hater. This was very fair. Thanks Richard. It helped me make my decision to purchase

So far the best review I’ve seen. Really in love with the video spec GH6 provide but I have a bunch of Olympus lenses and I’m worry the lens won’t perform well with the Lumix GH6. I’m afraid I will end up purchasing new mft lenses from Lumix. If that’s the case I might as well just jump ship to Full frame camera.

WOW! The FEATURE LENGTH RU-vid Review! Love Richard! And Loved our Podcast together :) Amazing work!!!

The best review

Gracias, por ahora esperaré a que mi trabajo me permita pensar en la siguiente compra. Tal vez incluso en unos meses existan promociones que pueda aprovechar.

Thank you!

Great explanation, thank you! But the gh6 it’s so complex I guess I will keep using my beloved LUMIX Gh2 and shooting 10/80

That bird sequence at the end…… wow, belongs in the beginning of the video

Best review covering GH6 now I hope a G9 replacement comes too

Epic!

What a piece of work! Interesting to see how this ‘best m43’ will do now that full frame has become more affordable and the market has changed. ( I actually never expected a GH6 to be introduced at all ) I am curious if the AF upgrade will find it’s way to other Panasonic models, or if it is just simply working better on a smaller sensor.

*Good job Richard! I want to ask a question. I want to buy GH5 M2 or GH6 for my videos. I couldn't find the answer to a question I was wondering about. If I want to live stream with OBS Studio via USB-C, how do I power so I can shoot for hours? The battery will not be enough. Does USB-C provide simultaneous power or will it need a dummy battery?*

Usb ssd recording is AWESOME!!!

Great review. I've seen several other reviews on the GH6 and those reviewers seem to hate the autofocus going to so far as to tell people not use it. They never went into the options or settings of it. It seems like a hit or miss for some people.

Richard hi, I really liked this video! Very detailed and well thought out. Yes, I can see for you too this is hard, hard deciding do you go with GH6 or adjust or stay with full frame. Agreed, yiu are correct, the landscape has changed, all the big boys (camera companies) have gone into mirrorless full frame. Me as well I have gone in now owning two Sony mirrorless full frame cameras. Like you I am so torn though because I really love my Panasonic GH5 even though low light is not good and not the best AF. What to do? I have 4/3 glass, but I feel i still want to hold out keeping my glass. Perhaps Panasonic G series is now only a few firmware updates away from something great or their next camera GH7. ...what do you think? Thanks for a great video. You being, out there, putting yourself out there makes me believe, yeah you can do it. Thank you man!

Really great review. Thank you for all the work. Is there time limit on the HiRes mode? Like the 1second on the S1R or 5 seconds on S5. It would get great for night photography on a tripod.

Excellent review! Please review OM-1 🙏

I've been in the Canon DSLR camp for a long time. With Canon announcing that they are dropping DSLR, now it looks like they may be dropping EF/EFS lenses too. None of their mirrorless cameras use them without adapters. I've really been on the fence about switching to something else. I'm not excited about anything in the R series and there have been concerns if they will continue with the M series. I was leaning towards Sony as it looks like they will stick with E mount lenses for a while and they work with both the budget and high end cameras. While only MFT the GH6 still solves many of the problems we see on other full frame and APS-C cameras as well as those on older Panasonic cameras. I could easily pick this up for a lot less than an A7s iii and be very happy with the production results.

Great video thank you!!! At around 33:19 it looks like GH6 has some IR pollution if you look at the black areas of the image. Do you think one should use an ir cut filter with the GH6?

Great review Richard. Does the S & Q mode has auto focus? Thanks

Great stuff Richard. I still have my GH4 but pretty much gave it up when I bought my Nikon Z6ii (and later Z7). Question I am dying to ask: will you upgrade or hang onto your existing Panasonic S5? :)

I would like phase detect AF in the gh6 and a vario ND filter and a socket for NVMe memory modules

Great review! Did you use the dynamic range boost mode when doing the high iso tests? What long lens did you use for the long lens ibis test? Thanks!

Thank you for this extremely thorough real world review. I am an owner of 2 G9’s and still amazed at the value and capabilities for a current $1000 price. As I’m more stills focused I think I’ll have to forgo this upgrade for more than 2X the price. I hope this is not the end of the line for MFT since FF is so temptingly close in price these days.

is there a far and near focus shift setting like the one that came in an update on the g9 or is it only like you showed where you can set their and near limits

This is the mode detailed review of the GH6 - thanks for doing it. The side by side comparisons with GH5ii are very useful. Why have they dropped live streaming from this? That's a deal breaker for me. M43 is meant to be compact - do you think it's too big and heavy for travel photography? I feel like the fan is an unnecessary size/weight penalty because I've never heard of the GH5 ever over heating even if it records all day.

Thanks for your so detail analysis !!

What about the enormous jitter/judder problem of the GH5, when filming- and following (panning) moving objects like birds in flight or airplanes landing? On the GH5 i always get very disturbing jitter (little shocks in the footage) which made all my takes unusable. Did you do a slow panning test to see if the GH6 solved the jitter problem?

Thank you for your great review ! I have a question: are there still 8 Bit Codecs in FHD, 4K and 5.7K ? or are there only 10 Bit Codecs ?

Wowwww from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 🎥

Hello Richard Thanks for your videos. Can you help me? I just bought the Gh6 and I'm looking for the menus on the right of the touch screen like it was on the GH5. How can I get back these useful fonction.....Is it the end of a good idea ?

Hi richard! What do you think about the fx30? Would you choose it over the gh6? THANK YOU!!

Una gran y completa revisión ! ¿sabes i la cámara tiene, o planea tener, alguna función de buffer de grabación de video, como otras cámaras similares? gracias!

Thank You for proper and honest review. This I was looking for 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Well done 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏 I own GH5 and Om-d Em-1 II. I have Zuiko 7-14 and 12-100 lenses. What I saw Zuiko lenses works on GH6. Probably IS will not work. Do You have Zuiko lens with IS to make a test if it work?

nice!

Your reviews are always extraordinarily interesting. Thanks for sharing. I am about to buy the gh6 and would like some advice. I use Edius 9 for editing. Edius 9 uses the processor. I make videos with this hardware: Intel i9 7940X Asus PRIME X299-DELUXE NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080Ti and only SSD dives I shoot only at 4K 50p 10bit In your opinion, how could I set the GH6 to be able to get the best video quality but even to make a good video editing without problems? I thank you.

When shooting video from a tripod, is it possible to turn on matrix stabilization?

So compared to my G9, does anyone have an opinion of performance using the PL 100-400 for birds in flight? I'm sold on the video specs but AF speed is important in my use.

Great job! Would love to see a LUMIX DH6 vs Sony A7 IV comparison Thanks..

Mr Wong, thank you for the great review. A question: can the GH6 make an internal time lapse?