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Panasonic Q&A: Two GH5 successors, GH5 II AF improvements and a “Double Driving Force” for full-frame & MFT products

 
 

A few months back, Panasonic unveiled not one but two successor models to the popular Lumix GH5 mirrorless camera, the GH5 Mark II and the GH6. The GH5 Mark II shares a lot of similarities with the original model, both on the outside and under the hood, including using the same 20.3-megapixel, albeit with some tweaks...

Panasonic teases release of new Lumix S5, a full frame camera set to launch on September 2nd

 
 

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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Problems for Samsung Galaxy S5 as cameraphones become… phones


 
 

No sooner had it started shipping than it seems that Samsung's new Galaxy S5 smartphone has a problem -- at least, for some customers. Early adopters are taking to social media to report problems with a "camera failure" message on their brand-new devices, after which the phone's camera hardware is disabled.

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Samsung Galaxy S5 ISOCELL sensor has world’s smallest phase-detection pixels

 
 

The first thing to do with a brand new flagship smartphone, of course, is to take it apart. The just-released Samsung Galaxy S5 got the now-traditional Chipworks teardown, and the camera components are even cooler than we previously thought.

Looking closely at the new ISOCELL sensor, making its first appearance in any...