New Panasonic Lumix S9 any good?

[Frieda Jones]

Looking at the new Panasonic Lumix S9 to cut down on the amount of editing I need to do to pictures (so time consuming)- will it be as good? 

[Fringe Try]

The basic premise of the S9 is that it's designed to simplify and speed-up the social media workflow. The goal is to allow content creators to generate photos or videos ready to publish straight out of the camera without additional editing in other applications. Lumix Lab App allows you to shoot and pair your camera with the app on your phone. So now you shoot images that can go automatically to your phone, or you can transfer them and you can make edits to them. You can put LUTs back and forth between the camera and your phone.

 

This camera has beautiful picture quality. It’s got the same sensor as the S5 II. But you obviously are losing out on some things that the S5 II has. So those begin with an EVF. Yeah, no EVF on this. You’re just relying on the back screen, which to me is kind of a big deal. I always shoot with an EVF.