Aren't these cams available over in Europe and Japan already? Hoping to see some real world footage. Only thing I've seen is hlg h.265 from eoshd. On a secondary note is it possible to actually search for anything on youtube anymore? If I say search the last week it still has over a week/month/year old 'reviews' come up. Search engines are such garbage these days it's almost unbearable.

Cheers, Pete

Thanks Vitaliy, I thought I was going to loose it as this stuff is just getting insane.

Tutorial videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/PanasonicLumixVideo/videos

Wow, the look of 'Wise Guys' is very natural, like Arri.

To be fair Im impressed Ive found first good thing about this system:

Panasonic Lumix S 24-105mm f/4 Macro O.I.S. Lens $1300

Acceptable price compare to other L lenses. Farther more Nikon Z miss that a lot - wide range zoom with ois. So first point to L system :) Just saying

I got the last S1 from our local store at noon yesterday and there were 3 or 4 more who had asked to reserve one and didn't get one. All I can say is that it's a very nice image with the 24-105 and the dual image stabilization is truly incredible. Yes it's stupid expensive, but it does a bunch of things I want that none of the other ff cams even do one of.

If there's anything you want to know, I'll see if I can sort out how to try it out.

On a side note anyone know how I might be able to adapt all my whole set of vintage OM Zuiko lenses to the L Mount? Not sure there will ever be a demand and haven't see anything out there.

Cheers, Pete

@PauloTeixeira, thanks for the link. Ouch, but I may have to get one :)

@WalterH

Mini donkeys are symbols of future real family life in capitalism :-)

@WalterH very nice footage. I am impressed with the color science as well. I am still on the fence in regards to my next mirrorless camera. I am waiting patiently to see how this camera performs with the Sigma L mount lenses...

Here's my first little test with the S1. 4K-60p natural with 1/125 shutter, f/14, auto ISO and sharpness at -5. I didn't have an ND or cir-pol as the kit lens takes a 77mm. Even with the overcast I was blowing out for proper video.

What ever I did with the face tracking auto focus, it wasn't working very well and I got less than 1/3rd of my clips in focus. The screen on the back looks so good, I thought it was nailing it, but when I got home and watched on the 43" hdr display I was super bummed. Lots of work to do to see if I can get that sorted. I'm a little bit suspicious that by putting sharpness at -5 didn't effect the autofocus performance as most of my other tests shots at home have been pretty good in this regard.

Stills auto focus performance is spectacular and the image in both stills and video with the kit lens is very nice. With the sensor being so good for lowlight the auto ISO actually works really well. It's pretty smooth and allows for some very nice effects when shooting in variable lighting.

It is what it is and for f/14 and all it's not too bad aside from the auto focus.

Cheers, Pete

I'm actually inches away from buying the S1, only just awaiting the answer to your question Wolfram.

Panasonic marketing works good with bigger sites

https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/10/panasonic-lumix-s1-full-frame-review/#/