Tag: Panasonic S5

My Favourite Lens: The Leica APO Summicron SL 1:2 50mm ASPH

My favourite lens is the first prime lens I bought, and the first Leica lens I bought. Some view it as the best 50mm lens ever made.

Beer Can Racing: community, camaraderie and a splash of competition

Beer Can Races are a midweek tradition for sailing clubs across the United States. They are short, casual races where the emphasis is just as much on having fun as on competing. They represent a great opportunity for novice sailors to learn and for amateur photographers to capture the action.

What comes next for Leica and Panasonic?

What can we expect from the new level of cooperation between Leica and Panasonic? Does it mean more cross-branded cameras and lenses or is to likely to concentrate on background technology?

Motor Cars on Main Street: How the Coronado vintage car rally adapted to the pandemic

Car rallies and vintage events were incidental casualties of the pandemic. But this Californian event found a novel way of keeping things moving...

Entering the L-Mount world – without breaking the bank or your back

So big, so heavy, so expensive: This was the mainstream criticism when Leica released the SL back in 2015. Six years later, L-Mount stands for an alliance with the partners Panasonic and Sigma, and it offers a portfolio of eight camera bodies as well as more than two dozen lenses at all price points. Jörg-Peter looks at an L-mount starter kit featuring Panasonic's S5 camera...

London Freezes: Tides soar, temperatures plummet, Pretty Polly comes out to play

London, by and large, has a mild climate. The weather is what the British call, with euphemistic understatement, "changeable"....

Panasonic’s new Lumix S5 lightweight arrives. Four lightweight f/1.8 lenses to launch soon

Panasonic's mini full-framer, the S5, has arrived at last. It pairs with the 20-60 S zoom as a kit and is reasonably priced here in the UK. The kit, in particular, is something of a bargain. This is the first fully-featured L-mount camera to go head to head with Sony on size and weight...

Panasonic’s rumoured S5 full-frame camera smaller than the micro four-thirds G9?

With the full specification of the forthcoming Panasonic S5 now leaked, the announcement can be expected soon. It appears that the new camera will be smaller than the micro four-thirds G9 and will compet with the Sony A7III and Nikon Z5 on weight.