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If it was my decision, I’d go pair of S5’s as I prefer to use matching kit for all the reasons…except in my case that would be a pair of S1H’s with the S5 moving into the role of static longer stuff mainly. But with this year as it is, I am still running the ‘mismatched’ pair of S1H and S5. I did a 10 hour event a few weeks back exclusively with the 24-105 and really liked the combo…except for size. This was hybrid coverage and for the video side especially, handheld throughout, the OIS + IBIS combo was brilliant. I then did an actual wedding myself! A real actual wedding after 46 postponed/canceled jobs, albeit just a small local affair. I went with the combo of 28-70 as my primary lens on the S1H and 20-60 on the S5 and shot 95% of the day on the former, the S5 and 20 end only being for a handful of super wide shots. This was a stills only job. But in approx 2 weeks, I have some proper weddings finally… A 3 day hybrid job followed by a 2 day stills only event and I have nailed down my kit combo now for these as follows… On the right hip, pulling video biased duty, is the S1H with Sigma 35mm f2 indoors switching to 65mm f2 out. Because I shoot 4k 50p, these lenses are more like using a 50mm and a 100mm which is the perfect fixed focal length indoor/outdoor pairing for me. On the left hip, pulling stills biased duty, is the S5 with Sigma 28-70mm f2.8 pretty much all the time except when I need a wide angle when I will switch it for the 20-60. With another 3 more jobs max the rest of this year, I can’t justify another S1H until next Spring and then the full line up will be: S1H with Sig 35mm f2, hybrid. S1H with Sig 65mm f2, hybrid. S5 with either 20-60, 28-70, 24-105 depending on specific need such as in the hand for occasional wide angle stills or mainly static, unmanned, on a tripod recording up to 30 mins. There is no place in my bag for the Sigma 45mm f2.8 and probably not the 28-70 either which is a shame as it’s probably the best all round lens after the 24-105, but I prefer primes. I don’t think I’d use the 24-105 at weddings and really only keeping it in the car as an all purpose backup lens and for personal landscape work in the mountains. The only potential change to the line up might be if Panny popped out an SH2 or an S5H for sale before the end of March 2022, but otherwise another used S1H it will be and I will run the above combo at least all of ‘22 and ‘23 for three principle reasons: 1: I am sick to death of playing around with various combos of kit which I would have been well past if this year (and last) had not been so shit, ie, the process has been dragged out far too long due to lack of opportunity and lack of finances. 2: Other than being less than stellar with forward and backwards video tracking, there is nothing else I need or want either within the system itself, or from any other manufacturer. 3: I am a big believer in nailing down the most minimalist kit that you can and then getting so familiar with it, using it becomes second nature and gets out of the way of the process of stills and video capture. OK, I need another coffee, that was a lot of typing on a phone!

Oh man, I take a GM1 again. Just to play with it. So...depends on what you're doing, but, honestly, I had an old 24mm on my GM1 most of the time. (Pentax auto110 24mm f2.8 prime) If you read my posts here, you know I'm a vintage and manual lens guy. I just can't abide AF, feels wrong to me for docs shot Cinéma Vérité style. For this particular documentary we were using Nikkor prime lenses with and without speed booster adapters. My wife did a bunch of b-cam work with the GM1 on this doc, and she put the modern Pany20mm 1.7 on there as well. I've shot a bunch of stuff with newer cameras and lenses since this doc, but I still think the way this one looks is better than most stuff I've done in the years since. I blame my lazy-over-reliance on IBIS and slow-mo for me losing some shooting mojo. (FWIW, I'm shooting a narrative short laster this month with the Pentax auto 100 prime lenses)

I'll bite. I can shoot 12bit 8K DCI RAW internally with my R5. Why do I need this? And, no, I do not experience overheating problems (though I have to be mindful). And, right now one cannot record 8K on the Ninja V+ with the R5. There still needs to be a firmware update. So, no one can report the advantages, if any.