Panasonic Lumix S1RII - new future for FF

[Knorp]

It certainly has character this way, Carl.

 

[ptomsu]

Initial thoughts after the first, longer weekend:
- ease of us: having used the Panasonic S5 II for a couple months and the S1R for a longer period, everything fell into my hand as "natural". For my type of use: I need to figure out if I can put the "motive" selection for the Ai-AF on one of the custom buttons. With horse-riding or in the show with mixed subjects this would be nice to have a one "click" solution to switch between "animal" and "human" mode. (I am not saying it does not work - I just have not tried so far.)
Funny that the other point really is: remove the function from the front button that starts video recording. Happened unintentionally quite often to me. Funny: means, that I was grinning at every "reviewer" who reported this ... sounded unisono like someone from Panasonic was asking for it.

- Autofocus: so far just the best remarks. It works really somehow faster than the S5 II and I am impressed how the AF-C sticks to the selected subject / object. But the horse riders directly approaching me was the fastest stuff so far. I am soon going to capture some table tennis competition.

- Picture quality: still need to print large but what I have seen on the large screen so far looks top notch.

- Overall: I like the viewfinder, there Panasonic delivers! Wearing lenses as well as glasses is comfortable.


Experience is based on using the camera with the Sigma 31mm 1.2 and the Sigma Macro 100mm 2.8. Looking forward to either the Sigma or Panasonic S Pro 24-70 mm 2.8 on which I have to make my final decision.

Currently shooting the SL2-S and being very happy with that camera. But I am thinking of upgrading to a higher res camera and buying the SL3 would cost more to upgrade from my SL2-S and from what I have heard the AF Hal plenty of issues - here the S1Rii would definitely be better and also cheaper.

So I think I will just keep my SL2-S for best shooting my M lenses via the Leica M adapter and just and a S1Rii in order to have the best around camera currently for L mount for higher resolution.