The FZ1000 feels very solidly put together, it’s reassuringly hefty and the size makes for a very comfortable fit in the hand with a generous grip that provides enough room for the bottom three fingers of your right hand to wrap around without your little finger trailing off the bottom or your finger tips pushing against the camera body. If you’re thinking of upgrading from the FZ200 – trading in the earlier model’s constant aperture longer zoom for a bigger sensor, better viewfinder and more capable video among other things, be prepared to get a bigger camera bag the FZ200’s dimensions are 125x87x110 and it weighs a mere 588g.īut the extra size and weight aren’t all bad. ![]() ![]() Comparison with an entry level DSLR like the Nikon D3300 which measures 124x98x76mm and weighs 460g, puts it into perspective even with its 18-55mm kit lens fitted the D3300 weighs around 20 percent less than the Lumix FZ1000, although of course the Nikon kit has a much shorter 3x range compared to 16x on the Lumix. It measures 137x99x131mm and weighs 831g with the battery and a card fitted. In some respects it’s closer to a DSLR than its bridge super-zoom heritage might lead you to expect, though of course it has a fixed lens. Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 Design and controlsĬompared with the earlier FZ200, the Lumix FZ1000 is a step up in terms of size and weight. In my review I’ve closely compared the two models for stills and video to see which offers the best combination of features, handling, performance and quality for your money. With this specification, the FZ1000 is clearly going up against Sony’s Cyber-shot RX10, a high-end bridge camera which also has a 1in 20 Megapixel sensor. The FZ1000 has a fully-articulated (but not touch-sensitive) 3in LCD screen and a 2359k dot OLED viewfinder (the same as the Lumix GH4) for composition, offers top shutter speeds of 1/4000 or 1/16000 (with its mechanical or electronic shutters respectively), 12fps continuous shooting, built-in Wifi with NFC, autofocusing which works down to -4EV and exploits the defocus profiling debuted on the GH4, an external mic socket (but no headphone jack), and support for 1080p video at up to 120fps (100fps in PAL regions), or 4K UHD at 25 or 30fps depending on region. The lens is also fairly bright, starting out at f2.8 at the wide-end and ending at f4 at the long end. The 16x zoom range may be shorter than the 24x of the FZ200 or 60x of the FZ70 / FZ72, but the new FZ1000 boasts a 20 Megapixel / 1in type sensor with around four times the surface area of those models, allowing it to deliver lower noise and a wider dynamic range, not to mention higher resolution. Announced in June 2014, it represents a new premium category in the Lumix super-zoom lineup, complementing rather than replacing the ageing but still popular FZ200. The FZ1000 will also shoot old-fashioned 1080p video at 60fps and 720p video at up to 120fps.The Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 is a DSLR-styled super-zoom camera with a 16x / 25-400mm range, a decent-sized 1in sensor and 4k video recording capabilities. The camera comes in at less than half the price of Sony’s cheapest 4K-capturing camcorder, the $2,000 Handycam FDR-AX1000, which has the same size sensor. The Lumix FZ1000 looks like it will squeeze even more out of the sensor than Sony does, thanks to a 4K video mode that records 3,840 x 2,160 video at 30fps in MP4 format. That’s way bigger than the 1/2.3-inch type sensors found in most high-zoom fixed-lens cameras, and Sony’s RX cameras are widely considered the best in the compact class for image quality. ![]() The impressive hardware starts with its 1-inch-type, 20.1-megapixel sensor, which is likely the same imager found in the Sony RX100 M3. ![]() The FZ1000 takes some of the best features found in other cameras and combines them in its all-star spec list. The 16X-optical-zoom Lumix DMC-FZ1000 may look a lot like every other megazoom camera Panasonic has released in the past few years.
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