What is initially clear is that for low light video, the GH5s sweeps the floor with the GH5. I did another comparison however, with stills from the Imaging Resource studio scene, which isn't a low light scene at all, but:
- When reducing the GH5 images to the resolution of the GH5s, the noise and general detail rendering seem similar.
- When it comes to colour accuracy and in particular colour detail, the GH5s is clearly superior. For colour detail in the red spectrum (orange to purple), the GH5s is vastly superior.
I only checked the ISO 6,400 and 25,600 images.
Would there be any point buying this camera to do 50% or more stills? For some people, maybe.
- If 10MP is enough for one's needs.
- It offers great high ISO straight out of the camera.
- Colour detail seems to be better than with the GH5.
- Smaller files.
- Oversized sensor for less difference in MP size between different aspect ratios (my GH2 used to be glued to 16:9).
- No IBIS means one thing less that may fail, and most Panasonic lenses offer OIS anyway.
- Less MP requires more self dicipline.
- I do an increasing amount of industrial video which is often low light.
In a way, it's like an E-1 on steroids that can also do very high-end video. I must admit I like the idea :loco: I don't expect many others to follow me on this one though
Oh... and during a re-organising of my image archive (more on that on a separate thread later) I found that more than 80% of the stills I've taken with digital cameras ever were taken with cameras that have 12MP or less. I still use a couple of them
Hmmm... at the moment there's no money under the mattress, but later maybe
I sure will have to try one though.