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You can argue that the Panasonic GH5 (Amazon)is a litmus test, telling us at least as much about the people who love it or loathe it as the camera itself.
I might agree with you.
It helps draw a bright line among video shooters, stills shooters and hybrid shooters. Among landscape shooters, sports shooters, and interview shooters. Between those who light and those who don’t. Between event shooters and cine shooters.

Between autofocus folks and manual focus folks.
Speaking of which: you can also argue that the whole “GH5 autofocus sucks/no, that’s your mom” controversy does much the same.
I’d definitely agree with you.
Those kinds of comments don’t really illuminate much other than the temperament of the people who post them (though sometimes the lines are pretty darned clever).
Yet in that noise, there IS some signal: whether you decry some of the recent GH5 autofocus tests as little more than “whack-a-mole” silliness or not (I’m firmly in the camp that it is NOT – I think the work d...

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Hugh traded in a corporate life on Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry to start Three Blind Men and An Elephant, a small production company with large animal logo serving. He has written extensively for planet5D and now creates original content for his own blog and YouTube channel. He is also an optioned screenwriter and author of Apple’s iPhone: The Next Video Revolution.
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