Panasonic DC-S9NK Full Frame Mirrorless Camera LUMIX S9 S18-40mm F4.5-6.3 Lens Compact Lightweight Body Ideal for SNS and Travel

There is a reason why this is Lumixs' best selling camera. It is so good. I hesitated buying this camera for a little over a year because of all the complaints that you hear from people who have never once shot with it; no viewfinder. no mechanical shutter etc.... Use this camera, focus on capturing your image and you really won't even miss those things. I have the S5ii, S1RII, S1II, and I use this more than all of those. Image quality is on par with all other Lumix cameras. Also, if you are a casual shooter or just looking at getting into photo/video then I would also choose this over any Sony camera, and I own a ton of Sony's. The fact is, straight out of camera these images are going to look way better. Images will be sharper and colors will be more vibrant without a doubt.

Compact. Feature-packed

Easy to use. Pics look great without editing.

Would be closer to the perfect travel camera, if it had an evf and a hot shoe for flash or other accessaries. A work around for evf issue is an optical view finder. The accuracy of af focus is good enough just using the optical and not having to look at the lcd for confirmation. Perfect xpan digital replacement camera. Having custom luts real time is also a game changer whether you shoot video or pics.

The footprint and capacity of this camera with the 18-40mm is basically one of a kind. There are some compromises, but for the right use case, nothing really compares to it. If you’re shooting professionally, I doubt you would even consider this camera. If you want a compact travel camera for family videos for those than can appreciate the difference between this and a cell phone camera. Following an update, you can drop record limits. I haven’t been able to make this camera overheat in 4k30 for over an hour. YMMV and probably highly dependent on ambient temperatures. Internal mics are probably better than average for a full frame mirrorless, IBIS is solid, battery is also good. Cell phone integration with the MP4Lite format is solid. Tried many of the competitors, including A7c and ZV-E1. I consider the ZV-E1 an absolute joke. I actually missed some of my kid’s first steps because it overheated after 8 minutes on 4k60, also only 12mp sensor. Compared to the A7cii, this has no evf, slightly less dynamic range, no functional hot shoe, no headphone jack, 33 v 24mp, and worse battery life. For me, still like the image this camera puts out better, I’d probably use a mic with an additional headphone output if I wanted to, and probably wouldn’t carry/use any hot shoe accessories; kind of defeats the purpose of the portability I don’t think any of the Sony lens options really come close to the LUMIX 18-40, especially for video. The hybrid zoom stretching that to 18-61mm, without appreciable degradation in the high setting, for video at least. The most equivalent Sony option would be the kit lens with the ZV-E1, the 28-60, which is a massive compromise. I can see a use case for the A7c ii28-60 v the S9 18-40, but it’s also a $800/2oz weight penalty. If the reason you carry a smaller mirrorless camera is for video, this really can’t be beat. Rolling shutter much better in 4k60, but that comes with a crop