hi Carl here for ProAV TV and I'm a Panasonic HQ here to take a lifting
little first look at their prototype versions of the s1 ours so I've got two
here and they're slightly different one works but we have to put a battery in it
the other one is not completely not working a complete dummy model but
that's this one it is the right textures and
everything's in the right places and this feels about right so it's a bit of
an odd situation where we naturally know very few specs about these we know that
the s-1 r is a high resolution model and the s-1 is the low resolution model we
know that they are the first full-frame cameras to do 4k 60p but we don't know
much more really other than that but we have been able to look at the actual
physical ergonomics of it and this is something which i think is really
interesting they've always been quite good at
economics Panasonic if you look at the G h5 and the gh 5s they didn't go for the
almost like the sony way of thinking where you try and keep as small as
possible to make it really small lightweight mirrorless camera they kept
the mirrorless part of it and all the features but they made it slightly
chunkier now it's part this is for processing and calling obviously and
that's how they're able to do other things which they can do but a large
part of it is how it feels in the hand and I think they're taking that one step
further with this this instantly the first time you pick it up this feels
right it feels like a professional camera it fits perfectly in your grip
one really nice touch I really like it's at the little lip at the top which might
in a photograph look a little bit uncomfortable but when you hold it it
supports the top of your fingers nicely and it means that your fingers are
supporting the weight of the lens at the front of the camera without having to do
anything it really helps with balance and that's small little touch which
makes a huge difference the texture on this model on this one it's a very
production prototype and the texture feels very strange on this one which is
how it's going to be on the final model it feels great
really really really nice to hold in their hands I'm going to swap
back to this one because this is the actual working one where all the buttons
work and talk to some of the layout of the buttons all the buttons are very
very responsive a little clicky and they've talked very very tactile which
really helps when you're of course you're using it like this up to the eye
you need to be able to feel where everything is instinctively without
having to take cars and look and see where the button is you can instantly
feel where the buttons are and where they aren't and each one of them is laid
out differently to feel distinctive and they're very very easy to access with
just your thumb and your finger here but normally these ones which you're
obviously going to have to use the second hand for to change modes and
stuff like that all the important things like the dials the white balance buttons
the record buttons the joysticks the menus all of that is done here with your
right hand without having to move it at all the new lens mount on the front so
this is like as mount feels very very robust sometimes with micro four-thirds
lens mounts on their smaller models you can feel a little bit a play in the lens
there's none of that here at all it's a very very secure connection between the
lens and the body the tilting screen is nice so there is have a lot of criticism
for not having a flip-out one like we've seen on some other models and people are
used to on the g h5 and g h5 s but they've done this for sturdiness like my
first thought was actually that this doesn't look that sturdy this looks like
something this would be easy to break where they said this is actually a
secure mechanism and stronger and more stable than the flip out screen and I
guess it's also probably quite important for weather sealing because that is a
big deal here these both the s1 and the s-1 are are fully weather sealed cameras
Panasonic have made a big point about saying that the weather sealing this
should be just as good as the top-end dslr's that we used to so things like
nickens D 850 in canons 1 DX mark to that sort of level or pro DSLR cameras
and the weather sealing that you'd expect on those you're going to get it
here and I think flip-out screens have always been a little bit problematic for
where the ceiling so this might be one of the ways that panasonic has got
around that so if you're shooting to one side of it this isn't real
gonna help you but if you're on this side that is going to provide just
enough of a tilt out so that you can see it so for video use it's handy a flip up
one would be nicer of course but this is going to be just fine for you in most
situations now I can't open the cards locked on either of these right here so
I can't see what's inside and how they look but we know that their dual card
slots and we know that one of them is xqd and one of them is an SD card so
it's fantastic that they've given us two models it's interesting that they are
different things we've seen this on quite a lot of cameras so it will be
interesting to see what of its codecs you have to use the executi cards for
and which ones you have to you can't use the SD cards for so if you're recording
somewhere higher formats it might not function as a dual dual card slot camera
we'll have to wait and see with that one it's not like it's got to see fast two
card slots or two xq DS something like that it does have an x QD and an SD but
for the most Everage sort of use and particularly for
stills that's going to be brilliant it's going to give you redundancy and much
larger file sizes because you have two media in there you'll get full size HDMI
port same as we're used to on the GH 505 s and there's also a USB C port and then
you've got your mic and your headphone up here and a little remote port and the
flash sync now on the GH 5s they've done some very clever things with the flash
sync port and giving it timecode and all that sort of stuff so again we'll have
to wait and see whether this can do that the other main thing that I guess I want
to talk about is the Ibis so they've said that this has the dual is system
similar to an gh 5 and you can see this definitely has is because the sensor
isn't locked down in there so hopefully this will be a full frame camera with
just as good image stabilization as the gh 5 which is sort of an
industry-leading camera in terms of image stabilization particularly when
you use it with their lenses and of course this is really interesting
because you get a full frame sensor that's doing that but also because it
has to work in partnership with the lens so on gh 5 you have to use one of their
lumix lenses like the 12 to 35 which are actually
right now with this presumably you're going to be able to use their lenses
they're big professional full-frame lenses which should hopefully be much
better optically both optically and in terms of handling and focus performance
and all the rest of it to their micro four-thirds lenses so it would be
interesting to see which ones the lineups that's going to work on and
which ones it isn't so they're being surprisingly secretive about their
lenses so far we know that they've got more coming but there's three ones that
they've currently announced they've announced 24 to 105 which is this one
here a 70 to 200 which we don't have in the room and this one which is 450
millimeter prime F 1.4 this is the only one that they've released the aperture
rating for so that's why I mean they're being a bit secret if they haven't and
health what aperture this one is or the 70 to 200 and actually when we look at
the front of the lens it's all covered up the aperture markings are so who
knows what these are going to be in terms of averages I'm not sure why
they're keeping that under wraps for now but it feels really weighty I'd be
surprised if this wasn't at least an f4 because it feels decent-sized it feels
nicely balanced here it feels very similar to in terms of weight and
balance to the 24 to one in France that we're used to seeing from Canon from
Sony from other manufacturers like that and the 51.4 looks brilliant it's much
larger than some of the 50 ones that I'm used to in the Sony realm and it's F 1.4
so that hopefully means this is going to be a really solid optical performer
sometimes just the physical size of a lens is a bit of a name like indication
as to how much glass is inside what the optics are going to be like and what the
optical performance is going to be like so obviously with a normal working
prototype you can't really tell anything at all about the lens so it's all purely
guesswork but seeing it the first time in the flesh and the size and the weight
of it I'm reassured so obviously this is the first time I've even laid my hands
on this in fact it's the first time it's really been shown outside of Photokina
and my first general impressions are incredibly positive obviously it's very
very early days we still know very little about this
camera I mean there's lots here that we need to know before we know that this is
going to be what we're hoping it's going to be in many many ways like so we can't
recommend this really without knowing all those little details but just in
terms of ergonomics I am very very pleased and very impressed it all feels
very solid very robust very professional and I think that is going to make a big
difference to people particularly if you're used to more professional
products whether that's high-end video products or high-end stills photos maybe
you're coming from something like a Canon 1dx mark 2 which is a tank of a
camera this is going to feel solid robust and reassuring to you but without
that weight and with a much better balance for a small little mirrorless
camera I think this in terms of ergonomics is everything I was hoping
for but of course the big question is what are the specs going to be like what
are the next things that Panasonic are going to announce let me know in the
comment section down below what you're all looking forward to what are you
worried about what are you hoping for what's the big questions that you want
Panasonic to answer over the next few months with this camera and of course
the links down to our website for more information or ruled down below in the
description thank you very much for watching as soon as we get any more
information on the Panasonic cameras I'm of course going to let you all know it
and jump at the chance to take a look at it thank you for watching and I'll see
you in the next one
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