In love with Lumix S9
Recently I've bought Lumix S9 as a complement to my S5ii body as I wanted to have something smaller and after careful consideration (and huge discount in my country where I paid 1300 Euros for body and 2 lenses as a bonus) and ignoring all the hate online as well as my previous experience with S5ii I pulled the trigger and it's honestly phenomenal camera.
What I like:
- Full frame sensor same as S5ii
- Amazing IBIS
- All the video options from S5ii, do not mind record limits as I have never ever recorded more than 5 minutes
- Battery life, screen quality and autofocus are great great great
- LUTS, I had it on S5ii, but never used it but here thanks to Lumix Lab you have many of them from users and LUMIX as well. All those above were never edited straight from camera. You can also adjust them directly in app.
- LUMIX LAB, I want it for S5ii as well already, best app I have used for camera so far nothing more to add, it connects and transfers everything fast
What I don't like
- Weather sealing (this one hits the most, as during winter time and foggy days it would be nice, but honestly never shot my s5ii in heavy rain anyway) but would be better for peace of mind
-Grip, this is the worst, only thing saving it is the place where thumb is, other than that, I always feel like I am gonna drop it.
- Shutter sound is awful, this is where the beauty of mechanical one is, however electronic is nice for street photography when you want to shoot incognito
What I thought I will not like but realized there is a workaround or I don't care:
- EVF, honestly, would be nice, but I had low quality EVF in cameras before and it's the same as not having one at all. Screen is plenty bright.
- Joystick for moving focus point, in the end I have set it for AF-ON button and then I have no problem
- Missing mechanical shutter, so far I had 0 problem with lights, banding, frequencies etc. so for my use case probably not a big deal and I like not caring about my shutter count :D
All in all, I am taking this camera everywhere now, with prime lenses the weight is pretty nice. It's like a baby S5ii and you can create literally anything with it. Hopefully they will introduce some pancake lens with good
aperture and I don't need more. Some pictures I took tonight in the city.