Canon Powershot G9X vs Panasonic Lumix GH5

In a world where smartphones can increasingly take better and better photos while still fitting in your pocket, point and shoot cameras like the Canon...

The zoom as an all-round lens and the 85mm as a close-up when the zoom is used wide-angle. I don't think overheating will be a problem as interviews don't go longer than 30-45min either. With my old equipment I'm used to stopping recording after 30min, changing memory cards and batteries and then filming again briefly. Autofocus is also usable here and resolution for photos is optimal

Zooming to the 50mm position reduces the maximum aperture by two stops to f/4. There's no hit in image quality; the camera manages 2,330 lines, with strong performance right up to the edge of the frame (2,148 lines). You get a modest advantage by stopping down—2,341 lines at f/5.6 and 2,471 lines at f/8—before losing a little bit of clarity at f/11 (2,239 lines)

This is an amazing little package that can give cameras 4 times more expensive a run for their money. The Lumix DC-GH5 is blurring the lines between prosumer and professional with features like 4k at 60p, 10-bit 4:2:2 recorded internally, plus many more. Future firmware updates will blur those lines even further with a 400Mbp/s bit rate codec! This is an exciting camera that will give you stunning photos and videos (admittedly more on the video side). A must own for the aspiring photographer/filmmaker on a budget

From here, I can select one of the filters available preset in the camera, like soft focus, toy camera, maybe art bulbs, and I'll press set to fine tu...

This camera is a powerhouse for the price. Full disclosure, my first camera was a Panasonic SD camcorder back in 2005, then switched to a Canon Pro camcorder in 2009, then jumped on the Panasonic train again with the GH3 and was using them until I picked up the GH5. The image is amazing, but that's not news. What is news - and hopefully will not be overlooked - is how much this camera is amazing to use

It's updated, but is it more than twice the price better? And that's the problem I have with it. The retail on this camera is $529, I believe, so that...

A GH5 or G9 is the way to go for you, in my opinion. Unless you’re spending around 3000$/£ or more, full frame makes no sense - you’ll be stuck with one kit lens and you’ll need another grand to get another. In APS-C land, Canon and Nikon have nothing interesting, only the more recent Fuji X series cameras are seriously capable video cameras, but at the price point of a GH5 they’re generally inferior.

You loose this feature if you shoot at full resolution or save your RAW files. Solution: Use a tripod or enforce a higher shutter speed using shutter speed priority setting or locked AE to reduce motion blur and forget about image stabilization.

Love this camera. The stabilization has changed the way I film weddings. It's a thing of beauty to use a 70-200mm lens on a monopod for wedding toasts. The dual card slots is great to have

It does overexpose a bit in bright conditions but it's not egregious and I find dialing in -1/2 EV will usually correct things - but this is a pretty typical issue with most enthusiast compacts. The lens is slower than its more expensive line mates but generally offers about the same level of optical quality (sharp in the center at all focal lengths but soft corners at telephoto), overall it's a pretty decent lens. Video also looks pretty good, sharp with great color. Autofocus performance is satisfactory, not great

Now there are some poor lenses too, but if you are willing to pay a little more I have found all of the Panny/Leica and Olympus Zuiko lenses to be very, very good.

For only 478 American and 524 Canadian, this is a really, really, really good camera. Superb image quality, superb video quality. It shoots really fas...

But for us, where does this fit in the video camera world? And i mean the only real drawback to it. I can see is if you need good, continuous autofocu...