Panasonic Lumix S9: Tiny Camera with 6K and IBIS (and limitations)

this is the Panasonic new miix S9 fullframe camera it has the same feature that I love on my S5 Mark too they both Sho 6K they both got amazing image stabilization they both have pH detection autofocus this basically work the same give you the same video as the M Baker S5 by 2 and I have shot um travel rock with Kai in Osaka I can confirm that this works almost well not almost it this works the same as this but then there's a catch this has video recording time limit and it do overheats so I've been to Osaka to the LX globo Summit when they all this the first time we saw this on stage and throughout the pen presentation I have been like worrying like please please don't that usually when manufacturer release something that's smaller no matter is a camera or a phone you see the smaller one got like crypo features good that is still got 6K and open gate which I've just talked about that in my previous video then in post production in editing you can crop in you can basically zoom in in protion without losing pixel also open gate means that it actually use the whole sensor to give you a 3X two video most fullframe camera simply crop the 3x to sensor into 16x9 and you got 16x9 video I actually got a little bit room about here and below here good thing is that I can correct the frame main a little bit if I'm the frame m is slightly off but also is easier to deliver for vertical YouTube shots or IG wheel or Tik Tok or whatever the reason is simple you usually see people cropping 16x9 from horizontal to vertical and it become uncomfortably narrow but because I Sho in Free by two I actually got a little bit more room to breathe somewhat related is this clever new feature called hybrid Zoom basically only clear image Zoom with a Twist of the lens Barrel no button press just twist your Zoom ring as it rely on extra pixel so you don't have this on 6K now this is a 20 to 60 mm lens at 4K it become 20 to 93 yep it won't apply on the wide angle end on 1080 it become 20 to 187 so think about some wide angle lens like this 16 to 35 it might become 16 to 50 well you can argue that I could just shoot 6K and then 100% put in a 4K video and yeah it would be exactly the same you just can't see the result immediately also in my mind keep thinking please fre DET test autofocus don't qule that with go going back to contrast detect autofocus that would be a disas disas disas as I mentioned I have shot a travel vog with Kai in Japan and as a actual S5 Mark I user I can tell you that the S9 focusing feels the same happily switch between focusing on a face or on an object and switching between far and near subject the last thing is said as it is smaller I I'm really wored they would take out the inut stabilization just like the G uh whatever it call G 100 GX those lenss are confusing um that one that one without in body stabilization totally wuin the camera it could have been great fortunately thanks God this has it the same as S5 Mark I same thing you can see my period like hundreds of video and you can get an idea how the SE work on the S9 like here I was basically walking sideway or singlehanded selfie flocking while walking and these are just mechanical image stabilization the E stabilization simply gimbo like and no it can't replace a gimbo like when I was running here you can see there's a little bit of left and right movement but with this it means that sometimes you don't need to carry a gimbal for just that one one or two shorts if we look at the video formats they shoot uh this is my S5 MK I by the way they are almost exactly the same like this XK 6K open Gat this is really really great I love this a lot we look at c4k 50p yeah it's still got uh apsd crop of course S5 MK 2 got apsc crop um you won't expect at S9 got it full frame that would be weird the lmal 4K 4221 bit 150 megabit per second but one thing new on the S uh S9 that is a mov MP4 and then that is a MP4 light this only 3.8k but this is 3x two open gate so this is more suitable for shooting uh landscape video and Export for vertical as well well one small different is that S5 Mark 2 just add newly at this propy recording you got a Bea file and a smaller file at the same time with propy recording yeah video format really important but don't forget about audio as well I always spend a lot of time looking for background music for all my YouTube video and today sponsor audio also call audio but with two I they can help with me a lot with that as well just like last time I added Kai's DJI Avatar 2 video I really want something that sounds like Top Gun uh dangerous song so I have spent actually spent a lot of time probably like just half an hour just looking for that soundtrack and it's still not perfect but audio actually got this link match AI feature you can find a song from YouTube Spotify copy the link paste the audio with been s seconds the AI will give you a list of match for you to use just like that don't have to spend half an hour just looking for one 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prefer a mechanical shutter because I would worry about the rolling shutter effect or the bending in some kind of artificial light so although with my limited time I haven't encountered any problem yet also this is much smaller of course it sacrifice something it sacrify some buttons for example this I always like this button the a lot of Panasonic camera have this button you can cck this switch to AFS FC and manif focus and also this button you press in to set the AF Z this one doesn't have that button and you have to set your AF Zone on here on top S5 mark2 got these three buttons this is on a lot of Panasonic camera they are exactly the same position white balance ISO um exposure compensation exactly the same on a lot of Panasonic camera so useful but not on this one on top you only have the um exposure compensation you have to set other mle and white balance on the back here which is kind of I mean this is just like a lot of smaller Panasonic camera you do lose something another thing on S my Mark I du car slot you don't have it on the S9 and it also you also have to access at the battery door One SD card one good thing is that the battery is the same exactly the same as the S5 other Lumix s fullframe camera be careful that maybe you can't use some quick release plate like this jel plate it's just barely small enough it doesn't have a GP it doesn't have a GP here so yeah it's smaller this way but fortunately there is a fir rest here so it make it not too difficult to whip especially when you have a huge lens in front huge for this camera by the way it's not really a huge lens uh small R had already make a wh for this so so this still make it so much better to quip you can quip both the front quip and then the front rest here that's a my Jack of course this is made for video of course it's called a my Jack but it doesn't have a headphone jack and uh one thing weird is that the other ports are on the right side so this is a micro so uh HDMI of course is a small camera micro HDMI and then there's um USBC for charging on the right side the problem is that when you plug in a cable you kind of have to hold it like this or something it's it's it's one thing really weird is the Horseshoe which it's not a horseshoe it's a cold shoe it just looks so weird on this it this makes it look like a toy camera it's a it just looks weird Okay I I haven't used a Hors shoe for a long time but then it it just why I leave it out I I don't know it's it just looks so weird one last thing is that they never mentioned that the S9 got any weather ceiling so I think there is no weather ceiling at all well a lot of those things you would expect from a smaller camera but there are something that I mentioned there some catch and there are potential dual breaker which one thing is that the recording time limit we haven't heard of this for a long time but this if you shoot 6K you can only shoot for 10 minutes 10 minutes I mean for some kind of video probably doesn't matter too much but even when I was shooting blog I encountered that I hit that limit as well and it doesn't have t light the thing is um most camp most Mir camera doesn't have t light but when the time limit is so limiting you it it will help a lot when I'm shooting and if I see that light goes off then I know I had hit the limit well when you shoot 4K is a little bit better 15 minutes uh shooting 1080 20 minutes which is I mean we have camera that sh 1080 with a 29 minutes limit for a long time I think the 5D Mark 2 sh 1080 for 29 minutes but this only suit for 20 minutes with 1080 I I don't know why they do that I mean uh 6K shoot only 10 minutes is it because of over 10 but then when it hits the 10 minutes limit I can start recording right away until it actually overheads so I don't know that why it has to stop when I mention over yeah this camera do overheat oh oh over 18 oh oh no so yeah okay um cloudy 24° after an hour of shooting is still giving it it giving me the overheat warning it's still works though so you're you're doing 6K 6K yeah 6K okay later I test it again at home temp temperature is 21.5 de C 6K first and I have to restart recording every 10 minutes at the end it had almost record for 50 minutes at that Slow Wind indoor understandably performed worse than when I was in Japan and then 4K I have to restart recording every 15 minutes this time in the middle I did have to change the battery now thinking back I probably shouldn't do that it take away some heat I should have start with a fresh battery and yes it do have animal eye [Music] detection at the end 4K had record for 1 and A2 hours of course as I mentioned this is a very present 21.5 de something kind of minor is that um Panasonic do lacking small East lenses for Elman I mean small is Elman lenses um this is probably the smallest lens well a series of smallest lens because they have a series of f1.8 lenses they are great they they are quite I mean 1.8 and throughout the same body same size they are great for fullframe lenses I mean fullframe camera like this um kind of not for this I mean when they want to show you um oh this a small lens that I mean small camera that you can bring it with you to travel whatever but you put a lens on it like this and become not so so I guess in uh flank Tech they release something like this the 28 mm f2.8 oh this is a this is cool pancake length isn't it I mean on the presentation the video all the good looking young people they or rocking a camera like this this is Lovely isn't it but then this is a manual focus lens yeah manual focus only but on top it doesn't have a focusing scale but here you have to rely on the focus speaking and this is f8 lens f8 only you can't even step it down it's a fixed aperture if I want a manual focus lens I can get white ler a lot of secondhand even new white ler low all of those fortunately they do have uh 18 to 18 to 14 mm f4.5 to 6.3 along that it will be coming uh will be a really reasonable size for a camera like this so what do I think about the Panasonic S9 it is kind of difficult to say but in a way it's kind of easy as well because it is basically perform the same as the S5 Mark 2 just with limitation for me for me it's brilliant because I can think about I have both camera then I can think about oh if I'm shooting today I'm shooting something that I just drive to the location shoot and then back home then I will take this but if I'm going to for example I going to London I have to park my car and then I go to several location to shoot then I would bring this so it would be um harder to answer question if you are the first time Panasonic do mix fire if you decided yeah Panasonic is good now it now have face detection auto focus it always have the best image stabilization yeah I'm going to get my first Panasonic new mix then it is harder to decide which one especially this is not that much cheaper it's just a few hundred cheaper than the XY MK 2 although it's is a lot lighter yeah you have to think about the limitation will it limit you is the 10 minutes or 15 minutes shoting 4K um recording time limitation does it affect you and do you live in a country that's over like in Asia over 30 minutes uh 30 minutes 30° c yeah then you have to think twice because this is brilliant it has has a internal cooling fan I tested last time basically left overhead on this camera yeah [Music]

Channel: Lok Cheung

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Length: 18min 11sec (1091 seconds)

Published: Wed May 22 2024