>>4284566Are you getting hired/paid to do photography?
>if yesThen spend the money
>if noAutofocus is gay as fuck. It's for people who don't actually enjoy photography. Why would you want skip a crucial part of the process? I would go so far as to say that FOCUSING IS PHOTOGRAPHY and to want to have a computer do it for you is basically an admission that you don't enjoy photography, you want to be internet famous and you think that this is your best route to getting there. If you're willing to outsource the focusing, what else are you comfortable letting the camera do, and at what point are you just pressing the shutter button when the camera tells you to?
That being said, phase detect autofocus isn't even strictly superior. Contrast is better for slow moving or still subjects and is more accurate and not subject to calibration issues, and has no impact on the image quality. Which is why Panasonic fought for so long to keep it. Phase detect is better in low light, in video and better for fast moving subjects, that's it. If you're most hobbyist photographers, contrast autofocus is better for you. But gearfags are retarded and only look at edge case scenarios designed to create and demonstrate minute differences in autofocus speed which doesn't necessarily translate into the best autofocus performance for real world shooting.
Buy the s5, it's an amazing deal because retards have been dumping them en masse out of fomo, when it's actually the better camera for most of them.