The best new camera releases are rarely welcomed with such wild enthusiasm as the announcement of the Panasonic Lumix S5 II. That's because it finally saw the brand introduce a camera with competitive autofocus (AF) capabilities, in the form of a newly developed Hybrid Phase Detect Autofocus system.
As the fourth camera to release in the Lumix S-series range since the introduction of Lumix's full-frame sensor renditions in 2018, the S5 Mark 2 didn’t need a lot of additional features to make it worthy of attention. Its predecessor, the Lumix S5, effectively cannibalised the series’ flagship, the Lumix S1, by matching it for key specs such as stills resolution (24.2MP), and 4K/60p video recording (but at a higher-spec 200Mbps vs 150Mbps).
