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Panasonic has finally rounded out its set of four F1.8 prime lenses for full-frame L-mount cameras with the introduction of the new Lumix S 35mm F1.8 lens. Panasonic has had a series of four different F1.8 lens varieties on their L-mount roadmap for some time now, and the company has slowly, but steadily rolled out new...
Panasonic today announced a new member to its unique "box-style" video camera line, the Panasonic Lumix BS1H. As you can probably guess from the model name, the new BS1H, is essentially a full-frame Lumix S1H mirrorless camera put into a small cube-like body. Like its Micro Four Thirds-based sibling, the BGH1, this new...
Back in July, Panasonic announced a compact and affordable 50mm f/1.8 S lens for their full-frame S series cameras. Alongside this lens, they mentioned two more f/1.8 primes were in the works, a 24mm and a 35mm. Today, the 24mm flavor makes its debut, and...
Announced as "in development" back in May alongside the Lumix GH5 Mark II and forthcoming GH6, Panasonic's latest Micro Four Thirds lens, the LEICA DG 25-50mm f/1.7 Vario-Summilux, is here in full. As noted in the development announcement, this new Panasonic-Leica fast-aperture zoom lens is designed complement the...
Panasonic continues to expand its lineup of full-frame S-series lenses, adding another compact yet bright f/1.8 prime lens to the family. The new Lumix S 50mm f/1.8 prime joins the previously-unveiled 85mm f/1.8 S lens from last November as well as two planned upcoming f/1.8 primes -- a 24mm f/1.8 and 35mm f/1.8 -- from...
Panasonic has announced the latest addition to its growing full-frame L-mount lens lineup, the LUMIX S 85mm f/1.8 prime. This new lightweight and compact full-frame prime lens joins the LUMIX S PRO 50mm f/1.4 as the second prime lens released so far in Panasonic's full-frame lens series.
This new 85mm f/1.8 lens was...
Update (9/21): It was brought to our attention that there was a minor focus discrepancy between the S5 and S1 with our original set of S5 First Shots. We have now re-shot and replaced our S5 lab sample images.
Update (9/22): After some further investigation,...
Though it was teased just a few weeks ago, not many details were released at the time about the new Panasonic S5 camera, other than it being a new full-frame model. However, the big day has finally arrived! Say hello to the latest member of...
It's been some time since our friends at Panasonic treated us to a new full-frame camera body... almost a full year. The video-centric S1H model was the latest, debuting in September of 2019, but we've just now found out that a new full-frame body is set to launch on September 2nd in the form of the Panasonic Lumix S5.
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Panasonic has announced a handful of software announcements designed to extend and improve the functionality of a variety of Lumix mirrorless cameras, including a Mac version of their tethered streaming software, an upcoming new piece of software designed specifically for webcam functionality, as well as an upcoming...
This week, our regular Firmware Friday roundup is a standout which consists solely of updates adding new features, some of them also fixing bugs at the same time. In all, the list consists of two fixed-lens PowerShot compacts from Canon, plus one interchangeable-lens still camera, nine video cameras and a card...
This week's Firmware Friday roundup is very likely a record-breaker when it comes to interchangeable-lens cameras. Even without including overseas equivalents, we have 20 DSLR and mirrorless cameras on the list from Canon, Nikon and Panasonic, and 24 once Panasonic's overseas equivalents are added into the mix.
And as...
Our regular Firmware Friday roundup this week is a little unusual in that most of the updates for which we have news aren't actually available just yet, although a few are already here and more will arrive in the coming days. In all, we have news of firmware updates for two cameras and one lens in the past seven...
We are experiencing an imaging revolution: more photographs are being made and shared than ever before, and users and the publishing world are rapidly adopting new quality standards in both photography and video. In the past, lens engineers had to design lenses that would comply and perform well with analog film, then...
Last week, Panasonic figuratively blew the doors off its competition in the pro video space with the introduction of the Lumix S1H. It offers truly high-end video capability for pro videographers and cinematographers at an unprecedented price point. (US$4,000 is still a chunk of change, but there isn't anything on...
Though details are still quite limited, Panasonic has announced the development of the cinema-centric, video-focused LUMIX S1H, the third camera in their full-frame DSLM (digital single lens mirrorless) lineup. While the LUMIX S1 and S1R are both capable of outstanding...
While many camera manufacturers are focusing on full-frame mirrorless cameras nowadays, Panasonic included with their new Lumix S1 and Lumix S1R cameras, let's not forget that Panasonic is also a key partner in the...
After teasing some of the exciting features...
UPDATE, 11:20am: We've now published detailed Hands-On Previews for both the Panasonic S1R and Panasonic S1.
After unveiling the names as well as a few key features and specs back at Photokina 2018, Panasonic is finally unwrapping all the details...
These days, the premium compact camera market is dominated by cameras with 1-inch-type sensors. For small, pocketable digi-cams, these are still really large sensors compared to what we used to see in more entry-level compact cameras. Panasonic, too, offers an...