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So I fell for the fool frame meme.
I have a Lumix G9 for semi professional videography and casual photography in between paid video jobs. I recently aquired a Lumix S5 since I had some extra money to spend and got a great deal on a local used camera site. I'm honestly kind of having hard time seeing the benefits of the sensor, or maybe more the mount and lenses. Sure it's cleaner at high ISOs, but I rarely shoot paid stuff in very dim situations or without bringing lights, and I honestly don't mind reasonable amount of noise in stills.
I've found my issue is mostly with the mount, or rather with the lenses. Even fast and premium MFT glass is mostly reasonably inexpensive, and fast L-mount glass is expensive as shit. So I'd end up using either heavier and slower glass and using high ISO all the time, or using (mostly) lighter and faster glass and tolerating the poor high ISO performance sometimes. Also I've kind of found the decreased depth of field on faster lenses kind of annoying, I mean I want to isolate the subject and not just a part of it? Then I need to stop down and that kind of defeats the purpose of the faster lense's light gathering ability in my opinion.
I hope this is just user error or lack of experience (or lack of autism). Sure the S5 is a lot better as a video camera, but like I said I find the issue is mostly with the FF/L-mount lenses and the sensor. Shit, I don't know. I wanted to be amazed by the FULL FRAME sensor, but so far it has't really outweighted all the negatives in my mind, at least for amateur photography and paid video work.
