Panasonic LUMIX S5 vs Panasonic LUMIX S5 II

The Panasonic LUMIX S5 II offers some improvements over the Panasonic LUMIX S5, including a new processing engine and a slightly redesigned body, with heat vents to reduce overheating and enable longer video recording. It also has a new phase-detection autofocus system, and it definitely helps in video, reducing the distracting background pulse that happened with the older contrast-based system. However, it still struggles to keep up when shooting photos continuously. The S5 II expands on some of the S5's video capabilities, with 6k open gate recording and no recording time limits, but it also lacks RAW video output out of the box, unlike the original S5.