Panasonic issued new firmware updates for its popular GH5, GH5s and G9 cameras today. The updates are supposed to fix some minor issues in the current firmware and improve the autofocus performance on all three cameras, which have been criticized for their AF performance being somewhat behind on the competition. Panasonic has been eagerly pushing firmware updates to the cameras since their release, this marking the sixth version of the GH5’s firmware.
Updates to the GH5 (firmware 2.4)
- Improvement of tracking performance and minimizing of backfocusing in continuous AF mode with 225 AF points
- Fix of a One-Push-AE bug in Creative M mode, when SS/Gain-Operation is set to Angle/ISO
- Fix of bug that sometimes caused timecode to be reset upon battery change
- Fix of a bug that caused showing all footage, instead of just the intended frame in 6k/4k Photo mode
Updates to the GH5S (firmware 1.2):
- Improvement of tracking performance and minimizing of backfocusing in continuous AF mode with 225 AF points
- Fix of a bug that caused the camera to not react appropriately to brightness changes under fluorescent light
- Fix of a One-Push-AE bug in Creative M mode, when SS/Gain-Operation is set to Angle/ISO
- Improvement of image quality when using V-Log for VFR recording in Creative Mode
- Improvement of image quality when using the Intelligent Dynamic Range Controlfeature
Updates to the G9 (firmware 1.2):
- Improvement of tracking performance and minimizing of backfocusing in continuous AF mode with 225 AF points
- Fix of a bug that caused the camera to not react appropriately to brightness changes under fluorescent light
