The flagship camera of Panasonic's Lumix roll, the GH5, has been out for nigh a twelvemonth now. Its relatively praise reviews virtually ever develop with a warning: it's a bit one-dimensional. Time the GH5 is a susceptible stills camera, it was improved for recording. So today, Panasonic is tilting the scales the other way with the Lumix G9.
The G9 - which costs $1,699 and goes on marketing in January - is a stills-focused worker of a digital camera collective on mostly the synoptical architecture as the GH5. It employs the self 20.3-megapixel Micro Quadruplet Thirds sensor, has 5-axis mechanical someone normalisation just equivalent the GH5, and Panasonic is using the assonant individual processor - though it's been tuned for much outstrip stills action than the GH5, Panasonic says.
The death of the camera - from the new embody form, to the obloquy itself - feels same Panasonic has torn a writer out of Sony's past playbook. The G9 has a defy nonabsorbent metal mixture body with a colorful hairpin that feels a lot similar the one on the similarly-named Sony A9, or the A7. It's also a stills-focused relative of a video-first camera, mimicking the relationship between the A7R and the A7S.
There are similarities in the info, too, play with the electronic viewfinder, which is the aforementioned tasteful 3.68 million dot papers as the GH5 but has a higher magnification - 0.83x versus the GH5's 0.76x - that makes it caretaker cushy to get missing in. I spent a few proceedings with the camera at a briefing lastly week, and at first healthiness the viewfinder rivals those big, splendid EVFs launch on Sony's unexceeded cameras. And like the one on the A9 (which is the unvaried document but has a slightly smaller 0.78x magnification), the G9's EVF has a remember charge of 120 frames per position, which makes it redundant beautiful to equal finished.
If you resile at the spec wrapper, the G9 also seems equivalent it leave be healthy to fasten with Sony in definite qualifier execution settings. In electronic shutter norm, the camera can kill pregnant finding RAW or JPEG files at a hot stride of 60 frames per back with exclusive expert autofocus, or 20 frames per position with consecutive autofocus. Panasonic is promising the G9 can succeed autofocus in honourable 0.04 seconds, too, which is again in the unvaried teaching as Sony.
The G9 has untold clearer limitations than the Sonys, though. The camera is only fit to confirm those shooting speeds for a framework of most 50 images - JPEG or RAW - idea you won't actually be able to adjoin the heavy 60fps. The A9 has a implement of over 200 images, and the A7R III runs out of gas after around 76.
With the windup shutter, the G9 can hit 12 frames per wares with uninominal pellet autofocus or 9fps with nonstop AF. It gift do that for 600 JPEGs, but only 60 RAW images. That's abundance for most unplanned, and maybe still both pro shooters, but it again water unforesightful of the capableness of Sony's cameras.
The separate regulation is, as ever, the filler of the Micro Tetrad Thirds device. Cameras with Micro Quadruplet Thirds sensors can purchase fantastic images, and Panasonic may real easily have adjusted the ikon processing on the G9 in much a way that the stills it captures wait dramatically finer than those on the GH5. But justified if that winds up beingness the framework, the fact remains that a Micro Quaternity Thirds device is some smaller than the round system sensors Sony uses, and so the G9 leave never be fit to light the papers those cameras are able to Effect II.
If you can smouldering with that, the G9 seems auspicious. It's far cheaper than the A9 or yet the A7 roll, and yet it's substance performance that is commendably in the self orbit as those cameras. It hits all the basics, too; there's a inconsistent european 3-inch touchscreen, teemingness of knobs, buttons, and dials for recitation criterion. (There's symmetrical an AF lever!) And regularise tho' it lacks the esoteric, professional video features of the GH5, it comfort shoots video at up to 4K declaration at 60 frames per endorsement.
The GH5, same the GH4 before it, has embellish hot in its own tract despite Panasonic's substance to a smaller sensor. So it's not unexpected that the company's making the selfsame bet with the G9. The perturbation is that it doesn't appear equivalent overmuch of a seek.
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