Panasonic’s Lumix S1RII full-frame camera captures 8K video

Feb 25, 2025 09:54 PM - 2 weeks ago 22380

Panasonic has announced an upgrade type of 2019’s Lumix S1R pinch a caller sensor, smaller body, faster autofocus, and video signaling that tops retired astatine 8K astatine 30 frames per second. Although the Lumix S1RII’s caller 44.3-megapixel back-side illuminated CMOS sensor is smaller than the 47.3-megapixel sensor successful its predecessor, its improved video capabilities, including capturing 5.8K Apple ProRes RAW HQ aliases ProRes RAW without an outer recorder, will entreaty to shooters looking for a highly tin hybrid camera.

The Panasonic Lumix S1RII is expected to beryllium disposable successful precocious March for $3,299.99.

Using a faster hybrid autofocus strategy that introduces phase-detect AF alongside the S1R’s opposition AF, the Lumix S1RII offers improved oculus and look detection, on pinch amended AI-powered search accuracy for moving quality subjects. It tin besides automatically observe and attraction connected a wide assortment of subjects, including animals, cars, motorcycles, bikes, trains, and airplanes.

The camera tin seizure full-resolution 12-bit RAW still images astatine up to 40 frames per 2nd utilizing its physics shutter, aliases up to 10 frames per 2nd (nine erstwhile capturing 14-bit RAW images) utilizing its mechanical shutter’s “High Speed Plus” mode.

For photographers wanting much than 44.3-megapixels of resolution, the S1RII offers a handheld high-resolution mode that tin seizure still images astatine 177-megapixels by shifting the sensor half a pixel and capturing and merging aggregate exposures.

In-body image stabilization improves to 8 stops of shingle reduction, aliases 7 stops erstwhile utilizing the S1RII pinch a telephoto lens that supports its ain image stabilization. When capturing video, Panasonic says the camera features cropless physics image stabilization pinch distortion correction that reduces “peripheral distortion while preserving the original perspective of view.”

The backmost of the Panasonic Lumix S1RII showing its articulated touchscreen opened.

The Lumix S1RII includes a 5.76 cardinal dot OLED viewfinder arsenic good arsenic a three-inch articulated 1.84 cardinal dot touchscreen LCD show that flips retired and rotates up and down for videographers. That surface is somewhat smaller than what the original S1R featured, but then, the caller S1RII is smaller and lighter than its predecessor — 1.75-pounds compared to 2.24 pounds.

Both SD USH II and CFexpress Type B paper slots are included, but videos tin besides beryllium captured to an outer SSD thrust utilizing the camera’s 10Gbps USB-C port. The Lumix S1RII besides features a full-sized HDMI larboard for connecting it to a larger display.

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