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The Panasonic Lumix S5 II (and S5 II X) were announced today. It’s basically the original but with a phase detect sensor and a few extras. The Panasonic S5 II looks solid! For solo videographers I think this system is going to get even more appealing. The only major negative I’ve seen so far as mentioned by  DPReview TV  is that the sensor read-out on this model is a bit slow (which  means   rolling shutter ). See  more information about the camera  through my affiliate  B&H  or  Adorama’s related article .  I’ve put together  a hybrid kit  for the camera as well. Links are potentially affiliated, I earn from qualifying purchases! If you are interested in more specifications and pointing out important details, check out DSLR Video Shooter’s overview . He does a side-by-side autofocus test with the Sony A7IV and talks about aspects like the dual UHS-II SD card slots. Also a mention of the info display with HDMI where the cam...

I haven’t used micro 4/3rds cameras besides handling them for a short amount of time. Take that into consideration with my opinion here. Obviously, there are a huge amount of quality tools available for a lot of different use cases in this system. That said, this is not a good year for micro four thirds.  Links are potentially affiliated in this article, I earn from qualifying purchases!  Olympus announced that they will have their imaging division “carved out” by a private equity firm called JIP ( Japan Industrial Partners, Inc ). It will happen around September 2020.  Their website doesn’t suggest an expertise in photographic equipment… JIP is difficult to find information on, but they took over Sony VAIO computers . We can see how that went. They appear to still exist, but certainly not at the level VAIO computers were. Moving forward, I don’t have high hopes for Olympus cameras and lenses under JIP ownership. It reminds me a little bit of what happened with Pentax wh...