The Lens-Sensor Settings Podcast

Author: SilverLight Photo Co.

For years, I had searched for the perfect lens-sensor combination; a lens and camera duo that would produce a beautiful image with few adjustments and little post-processing. It would look REAL straight out of camera (SOOC) and be everything I needed and wanted in a camera system. However, as I tested each pair, they all told a different story, and would deliver light to the sensor differently. So, I began tweaking settings, jotting down notes (on index cards) for each lens-sensor combination I tried. I soon realized I needed a database to access all my settings & LUTs, and created my website.
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Is the Panasonic LUMIX GX9 Good for VIDEO?
Thursday, 18 June, 2026

SPOILER: If you don't want to listen to this podcast episode, I am going to list the reasons the GX9 is bad for video...and it's more than not having a microphone jack, and it's a sad story (listen to this episode for those details).WHY It's bad (for VIDEO):1. The most important thing is, the video footage that comes out of the 4K PHOTO Mode (where you can get the 4:3 aspect ratio "open gate") looks bad...kind of mushy... don't know how else to say it. When you compare the footage, with the exact same settings, from the LUMIX G95, the GX9 footage looks similar FROM A DISTANCE but it is "mushy" (is not sharp, and more). So sad.2. There is no microphone jack on the GX9, and we know that part, but it needed to be mentioned.3. There is no way to change the "Luminance Level" in the video mode on the GX9. You can do it on the G95, but the GX9 doesn't include it in the menu system, so you don't really even know FOR SURE what it is. However, I figured out (from various information on Panasonic's website) that they always use 0-255 for 4K or 6K PHOTO Mode, so you can kind of force it into 0-255 with that mode, but the footage is bad (mushy) in that mode, so the only mode you can use is the regular (16:9) video mode...which is probably 16-255.4. The Panasonic LUMIX GX9 has a 30-minute recording limit (the GX85 did not, so I'm not sure why they wanted to go backwards for the capabilities on the GX9).