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Lovely shot. I think they are all great, I've had the S1, S5 and S5ii. But I can't deny that the first generation just had something nicer about it, for want of a better word. Saying that, the S5ii has a great image and the handling is much improved.

Not pictured: the Lumix FZ47.

Brought mine along on my honeymoon in Ecuador a few years ago. Kind of a slow camera to work with and not my usual keeper rate, but I do like the shots that I was able to get:

I’ll send you all 300 clips and see what you can do. Yeehaw!

I have one e500. Small, coupled with oly 43 25 f2.8. Good for travel. The lens has some distortion. The camera is not good at night. Other than that, it is good to use. Color is good at iso 100. At iso 400, it starts to smear. I brought it to DC once as my sole traveling gig. I like it except limited use at night.

Not cinematic enough. I fixed it for you. Now that's cinematic.

I still hold three units of them! And 4x Canon M... 4x G7... 2x GF5... 1x 5DMII -- not mirrorless but anyway, today, it is my precious one for absolute personal reasons, hence the exception here! (actually, it was my last reflex before to have changed to mirrorless) 1x GX85... 1x FZ1000... A couple of NX500. Other than a few Blackmagic if those aka cinema cameras count here, FX30 is my daily one nowadays : ) All of them have a particular story of and by their own! Loved the way you've addressed about, as our pets! LOL : ) you've exactly nailed it, I guess why we are all here! :- )

Original Fuji X100 and Nikon D200 For video it's almost useless, but for photos it shines with all its quirks and "personality traits". Nikon D200 is an absolute beast that has a ton o personality thanks to the CCD sensor. A truly great photo camera. No video function there. My modern cameras have zero personality (7DM2, R8, Z50) but work at such a high level that I just can't get rid of them even I want to. 7DM2 for quick focus and one of the best OVFs ever (soft video though); R8 is very very good for video, Z50 is not as good for video but I really like its compactness.

Fuji: OG X100, X Pro2, XH1 Lumix S1H Nikon Zf plus really loved the OM-1 for the brief time I had it. Just not the results it produced. In my hands anyway…

I'm not really seeing any difference between any of them; S5, S1H, S5ii. Yes there are some very subtle differences such as that from the S1H is a teeny weeny bit softer due to the OLPF, but otherwise, nothing for me. There's some chatter about over-sharpening. I don't see it. There's some chatter about moire. I'm not seeing that either. Highlight roll off and blah di blah, - what are we shooting here with these things? Are we really comparing the results from our humble mirrorless cameras with Hollywood lighting, productions, lenses and budgets? I'm not, - to be even remotely in the ball park is hilariously ridiculous. Here's a screen grab from my S9 which is my principal run & gun unit, from last weekends wedding I am currently editing. A pretty dark hole of a room for bride prep and unless anywhere near that window, then screwed. It's SOOC and not touched it in any way; exposure, WB...nuffink. 6k 30p shot at 1/50th, 4000 iso, 5000 WB, Freewell ND 2-5, exposure otherwise eyeballed on the rear LCD with the wave form I rarely look at.

NX1 A7s mk1, GX85, GH2, GH6, LX100mk1, S1H Any Sigma foveon, agreed

Nice work @Jip-Hop I was working a few years ago with MotionCam devs on the Discord, really nice guys. The app has come on a lot since then. So much to get into. I tested around 30 or 40 phones with it at one point. Personal favourites were the 6K capable Moto Edge+ (2020 version) with large 1/1.33" Samsung sensor, similar to Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro, both really cheap phones now on eBay, and the Oneplus 8 Pro did well with it too, 4K/60p and the dev's favourite... For a month or so I became completely obsessed with discovering the hidden raw video talents of telephones... Went round Berlin's Saturn stores and installed it on a few models there too 🙂 I had the RED Hydrogen to play with too, but that one's a bit old to support it. Xiaomi 14 Ultra is a perfect tool for it, but yes the guide is much needed to get the settings optimised for it. If you wanna collab on anything just DM me!

What are your most treasured pets (I mean cameras) that somehow buck the trend with the cutest personality. Personally, mine are... And the X-Pro3 DURA with all that expensive titanium and unusual screen design. Following closely behind... Panasonic GM1 and the batshit crazy Sigma Quattro series, including the SD mirrorless. What's yours?

When there is a tan version with a little bird logo on it, it will shoot the most awesome video you have ever seen and you will gotta geddit.

One way to think about it is that if you put on the 14-140mm then you can just think of it like a camcorder, BUT (unlike a camcorder) you can swap to a different lens in those rare situations that come up from time to time. The 14-140mm with its seriously extended focal length at the long end, combined with the reasonable high-ISO performance of the GH7, means that it can do most things, but in those rare situations you're not stuck. Having an ultra-wide is really handy, especially for travel, and having a fast prime is really handy for low-light situations. Having a vintage lens can also be a fun addition too, when you want to go from having a normal look to having a dreamy or nostalgic look. In terms of shooting travel, I shot several different 'genres' on my last trip, and I actually found it to be quite straight-forward to do (I had wondered if it would just be too confusing / overwhelming but it didn't turn out to be). So you could easily swap between a few options for those different genres. I really feel like the GH7 + 14-140mm has all the advantages of a camcorder or an ENG or doco setup where I just use it and don't think about the camera almost at all while shooting, but then I can swap lenses when the need arises.

I wondered the same thing. I noticed when I activated the code, I could also deactivate. And it states to keep the activation code handy in case I need to reinstall after a firmware update, so I think you may be able to use it for one device, but I'm not certain. The code may forever be tethered to that serial number.

oh God, that's beautiful! < 3 What an artist we have there! We need more stuff of this! : ) Who cares about new features when the old ones are already prone to shine? : P We need shooters and art coming from, not much else...

The M8 had an APS-H sensor so crop factor of 1.3

No kidding? @Andrew Reid I love the colours people are getting from the M8 sensor. Some classy classic read from a photoblog favorite of mine. Those colours in these shots, bw as well! https://blog.mingthein.com/2012/07/12/revisiting-the-leica-m8-a-cheap-entry-into-digital-rangefinders/

Darn. They really work hard to make this camera look bad with their color grading and uninspiring filming. Cinealta F3 amateur work looks stellar on the other hand. Tells us a lot about the shooter and the camera. Whereas none of the S1II videos I've watched so far show me much about its image quality. Tells us nothing about the camera but everything about the shooter. Maybe watching cammacky will give some insight. But that guy sells every camera equally well.

I just saw a video with the S1II, shot for a big review site. It was a rather lazy display of cinematography, in concept and realisation. Shouldn't working for a huge review site be rather inspiring for the tester to do the cameras justice when using it in the field! They don't make it easy for us to want to buy a camera. Good!:) Nikon Z6III for 2100 Eur new, now that is a whole lotta camera for that price! Maybe there are some convincing comparison videos between Z6III and S1II with convincing video work. Names are both kinda equally meh.:)

I get wanting open gate for ratio changes, but 60p? Am I missing something where everything is slowed down 2.5x? Most of what I see is still presented at normal speed, give or take. Or does the excitement mean that this new camera will be the harbinger of a new era of everything online seeming v e e r r r y y y y s s s l l l o o o w w w?

Oh yeah definitely quite a number of them want 60P opengate so they export all kind of ratio.

If you're in any sort of mass production, FPGA is substantially more expensive than ASIC - and a lot more power hungry. It's one of the reason that the Z Cam E2 series was so power efficient. It's all ASIC. On the other vendors' cameras, things like H.265 encoding are mostly done with a dedicated coprocessor so it's super-duper efficient. It's one of the reasons that you'll rarely see any of them add a codec post-release. Dedicated silicon is also why encode/decode can be a lot faster on the computer, depending on which processor/GPU is in play.

Could just be a simple capacity thing, maybe Towerjazz or other non-Sony suppliers just can't pump out as many finished sensors? Maybe their yield rate from each wafer is lower than Sony's, so it makes more sense to do smaller formats as you lose less from each wafer when there's defects? Who knows. Maybe BlackMagic using FPGA processors instead of ASICs, which I believe is cheaper, is part of their low pricing? Also why their cameras are so power-hungry compared to a mirrorless or Sony Canon etc cinema cams processing similar amounts of info (actually, way less processing for BM cams, as they're not compressing down to h264/265 etc). Anyway, my prediction with pricing is that we're going to see prices rise across the board from here forward due to the tariff issues. Pannyboi just had the bad luck to be the first to launch a post-tariff camera so right now they look bad/dumb/greedy, I bet in a year everyone else will have caught right up.