Best lenses for Panasonic Lumix S5, S5 II and S5 IIx in 2024

Best lenses for the Panasonic Lumix S5, S5 II and S5 IIx: Panasonic Lumix S5 IIX being held by DCW reviewer Jon Devo
(Image credit: Jon Devo)

The Panasonic Lumix S5 has offered first time full frame mirrorless camera buyers real value for money and has long been one of the best Panasonic cameras. The only thing against it was Panasonic’s dogged determination to stick with its DFD contrast AF autofocus system, which is fine for single-shot stills photography but has definite limits for subject tracking and video.

The newer Lumix S5 II and S5 IIx have changed all that. They both feature a new 24MP sensor with phase-detect autofocus to put them on a par with the best mirrorless cameras from Canon, Nikon and Sony, and they also have improved and extended video capabilities which make them among the best vlogging cameras and the best cameras for filmmakers, while the S5 IIx has features to challenge some of the best cinema cameras – no least Panasonic’s own Lumix S1H.

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Rod Lawton

Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews Editor. He has used practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium-format cameras.

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Rod Lawton
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Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com

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