Panasonic’s new Lumix G9II is a stills/video hybrid camera designed for serious enthusiast photographers. Notionally it’s a successor to the Lumix G9 from late 2017, but in reality, it’s a completely different camera. In fact, it’s perhaps better seen as a Micro Four Thirds version of the full-frame Lumix S5II, sharing almost exactly the same body design.
As with the S5II, the headline update is the adoption of phase hybrid autofocus, rather than the proprietary depth-from-defocus system Panasonic used before.
