To be fair though, the only cameras I can think of which do have a browser to accept terms and conditions are Sony’s Wifi-equipped models. That said, I find Panasonic’s stabilisation generally more effective than Sony’s, so as always there’s swings and roundabouts. The FZ1000 lacks the Sony RX10’s aperture ring control and that will doubtless be a drawback for some, particularly pro videographers. The stabilization irons out all but the bigest wobbles during the pan and while the lens is zoomed to its maximum 400mm equivalent focal length. 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. It lacks the RX10's top-mounted screen for relaying settings and its dedicated exposure compensation dial. To test the Lumix FZ1000’s, stabilisation I zoomed the lens to its maximum 400mm focal length and took a series of shots in shutter priority mode at progressively slower shutter speeds first with the stabilisation turned off, then with it turned on. The fastest continuous shooting speed using the mechanical shutter is 12fps. But the extra size and weight aren’t all bad. Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 Review â Features. The answer is in fact very quickly. It typically took about 12 seconds to copy an original JPEG from the camera to my iPhone 4S from a distance of about 1m; it’s not possible to copy RAW files though. This new version offers a touchscreen, Bluetooth connectivity, Zoom Compose ⦠The Lumix FZ1000 sports a broad range of movie capabilities that will see it welcomed by enthusiasts and even professional videographers. They both have high-resolution 3in LCD screens, too. f/4 is still bright for a bridge camera, but it captures half as much light as f/2.8. The FZ1000 is also equipped with a 3 inch TFT LCD screen with 920k dot resolution. Below is an example of how 1080p compares to down-converted UHD and native UHD. 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. For most situations though, I found the FZ1000’s viewfinder a pleasure to use though if I was to make one criticism it would be that in very low light it tends to get quite noisy. For me this is a better option as it provides a variety of options for charging that don’t rely on a proprietary charger. But to be fair, f4 isn’t exactly shabby, especially as the FZ1000 maintains this to a focal length twice as long as the Sony. The FZ1000 is the Panasonic LUMIX flagship bridge camera with ultimate image quality. The lens is also fairly bright, starting out at f2.8 at the wide-end and ending at f4 at the long end. The Time Lapse Shot timer can record up to 9999 frames at intervals from one second to a second shy of 100 minutes, and you can delay the starting time by up to 24 hours. Announced in June 2014, it represents a ⦠The Lumix FZ1000 takes the same DMW-BLC12E battery as the FZ200. This then sets up the FZ1000 as a wireless access point, displaying the SSID name and password, alongside them both encoded as a QR graphic. If you’re interested, you can download my. Compare that to the constant f2.8 focal ratio of the RX10 throughout its range, right up to 200mm. Otherwise, the controls are nicely laid out, with labelled buttons for the most commonly used functions and various customisable Fn buttons. In a departure from the usual convention the Intelligent Auto mode position isn’t red, as on the FZ200, but white like all the others. That said, Sony has provided a firmware update to equip the RX10 with 1080p encoding at 50Mbit XAVC S, so hopefully it may be able to expand other funcationality in the future. To maintain a responsive experience which feels like the images are stored locally on your phone or tablet, the camera sends a lower resolution version. Another thing to consider is that at the full 400mm telephoto the maximum aperture available on the FZ1000 is f4 (in fact, as I noted earlier, the lens actually closes to f4 at 175mm). The Lumix FZ1000 employs a 100% contrast-based AF system which Panasonic claims is quicker than the FZ200 in practice. On the FZ1000 you can shoot in PASM exposure modes, although without a touch-screen or click-free controls, there’s no way to silently adjust the settings while filming. The Panasonic FZ1000 II is a 20-megapixel long-zoom bridge camera aimed at enthusiasts. To test the low light capabilities of the FZ1000 in UHD, I filmed a series of tripod-mounted clips between 800 ISO and the maximum movie sensitivity of 6400 ISO. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 is a super-zoom camera featuring a wide-angle 16x zoom lens equivalent to a focal range of 25-400mm, a 20.1 megapixel 1-inch MOS sensor, a 3-inch ⦠The range of the mechanical shutter is 60s to 1/4000 plus a bulb setting with a maximum of two minutes. For 1080p video, the FZ1000 takes the full sensor width and scales it down to 1920 pixels using a non-integer factor of 2.85 times. In either case a spare is going to be essential for anything other than casual shooting. And the RX10 lacks the FZ1000’s support for upload to sharing websites. With breathtaking performance and luxurious design, it fully justified its £949 launch price. Moving over to the right side of the viewfinder there’s a three-way switch for selecting AF modes, Fn3 which is the Q.menu button, the playback button, display overlay toggle button and finally, below the four-way controller, Fn4. By contrast, the Sony RX10’s battery is charged inside the camera using either the supplied mains charger or one of your own, or by plugging it into a powered USB port on a laptop or other device. Both cameras share what I believe is the same sensor, and both also capture 1080p video from their full sensor width, employing a non-integer scaling factor. This was thanks in part to spectacular autofocus performance, typically taking a tenth of a second between pressing the shutter button and capturing a shot. You can tap anywhere on the live image to set the focus to that area or directly take the shot. Apologies for the rather brutal cut and the end of this clip – the FZ1000’s battery gave up! The Zoom collar can be reallocated to exposure compensation (though you’d then be reliant on the snail-like zoom ring). If you’re creating a new connection you can choose from ‘remote shooting and view’, ‘playback on TV’, ‘send images while recording’ or ‘send images stored in the camera’. The clip was shot handheld with stabilisation enabled. I filmed this clip of my outdoor test scene in the FZ1000’s UHD 4K mode in aperture priority at f4 125 ISO. This is also handy to prevent the EVF kicking in when you don’t want it, for example when shooting at waist level with the screen flipped up. Switching to RAW allowed me to shoot a burst of 13 frames at a marginally faster 10.23fps, before the camera stalled. Autofocus is also extremely sophisticated. As you can see from the crops above, the Lumix FZ1000 can shoot at shutter speeds as slow as 1/25th with the stabilisation enabled. The FZ1000's screen is hinged at the side, which allows for a greater range of angles than the RX10's tilting screen. Instead you’ll need to adjust the aperture using the thumb dial on the rear which while pleasantly tactile, will click audibly as its turned. As I wanted some of the stills for another project, I shot in the native 3:2 shape. Intelligent Auto can tell if the camera is on a tripod and set a slower shutter speed than for hand-held shots and when appropriate it also automatically sets face/eye detect autofocus, backlight compensation, and intelligent ISO, i.resolution, and i.dynamic to enhance images with either additional sharpness or contrast. I set the mode dial to the Creative video mode position and set aperture priority exposure. So while Sony may have updated the RX10’s firmware to support 1080p in XAVC-S at 50Mbit, it still falls behind the video modes on offer here. As on earlier models, turning the FZ1000’s mode dial to the palette icon provides access to a range of Creative control filter effects. The RX10 was astonishingly quick in our tests. However, this switch and another for optical stabilisation are too easy to knock by accident. The viewfinder protrudes quite a long way from the rear body, which is actually an advantage if, like me, you use your left eye – it allows room to access the rear panel controls and avoids smearing the screen with your cheek. I am however pleased to find the useful time-lapse option of the Lumix G models is present, which, as I’ve said, can be used to generate a movie in-camera following the capture. Fn1 is slightly larger and sits proud of the surface making it easy to differentiate by touch from the smaller, flush mounted Fn2 behind it- a nice ergonomic touch. This means at 175mm, the RX10 is brighter at all but the very widest focal lengths, and by 175mm the Sony is a whole stop faster. As such, it’s not surprising to discover their respective 1080p video is pretty similar in terms of detail and artefacts, with any minor differences being down to processing style, lens quality and compression. Further evidence the sensor comes from Sony is the native image shape of 3:2. From a full charge you can expect to get 360 shots before it runs out of power, that’s not great by comparison with an entry level DSLR, or even the FZ200 which managed a respectable 540 shots from the same battery. That's still modest compared to the 50x and 60x zooms doing the rounds these days. To see how the quality of the Lumix FZ1000 measures-up in practice, take a look at my Lumix FZ1000 quality and Lumix FZ1000 noise results pages, browse my Lumix FZ1000 sample images, or skip to the chase and head straight for my verdict. The FZ1000’s continuous AF does a pretty good job of switching focus from the close up copy cup to the flower and then to the bar. On the right side of the body a plastic flap covers the mini HDMI port which is flanked by a USB / A/V out port below and a socket for the DMW-RSL1 wired remote. 25-400mm is a versatile, highly practical zoom range. Using the Panasonic Image App, you can also control the FZ1000 remotely. Like the FZ1000 the RX10 has NFC for quick and easy connections and provides remote control as well as upload to a smartphone. I zoomed in a little and in aperture priority mode set the widest available aperture – f3.3. The remote control feature is really neat, showing a live image on your phone or tablet’s screen and allowing you to take a photo or start or stop a video recording. But the remote features are restricted pretty much to zooming and shooting, with none of the FZ1000’s control over exposure and other setings. The Panasonic FZ1000 and Sony RX10 are each based around 20-megapixel, 1.0-inch type CMOS image sensors. But it does mean if you want a constant focal ratio throughout the range while zooming when filming for example, you’ll need to close the FZ1000 to f4. Once again this is the same approach employed by the GH4 for 1080p. Both cameras have Wi-Fi with NFC, but the FZ1000's accompanying iOS and Android apps provide far more comprehensive remote control facilities than Sony's apps. It’s slightly disappointing that you can’t change the drive mode remotely, that has to be done using the dial on the camera, however once you’ve set a drive mode it is then possible to alter, say, the continuous shooting speed, or self-timer delay. If you like filter effects you’ll be happy to learn that Panasonic has expanded the range to 22 – eight more than on the earlier FZ200. The first is the camera doesn’t have any kind of built-in browser to accept the terms and conditions of public hotspots, so you’ll mostly be using home or office-based Wifi. ⦠To capture the sequence here I set the FZ1000 to Manual exposure mode, fixed the sensitivity to 125 ISO and locked the focus, then set the timelapse mode to record 900 frames at two second intervals. The Lumix FZ1000 may not sport the constant f2.8 focal ratio, built-in ND filter, headphone, stepless aperture ring or XLR options of the Sony RX10, but I’m guessing many videographers would happily sacrifice these for the ability to shoot 4K UHD or slow motion 1080p. The Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 II is an updated version of the 5-year-old FZ1000 bridge super-zoom camera. There’s a slight lag of about half a second or so which is enough to cause you to miss a quick shot, but on the whole it’s not something that bothered me overly. It’s particularly interesting to note the video differences between the FZ1000 and RX10 as I believe both share the same sensor, and it’s even more curious when you consider Sony’s firmware version 2 for the RX10 only equipped it with a higher bit rate for 1080p (50Mbit XAVC S), meaning it still lacks the 100Mbit 4K UHD of the FZ1000. Integrated Wi-Fi with NFC. By comparison with the Lumix FZ1000, the Sony RX10’s Wifi implementation is fairly basic. Like the Lumix GH4, there’s a release mode dial on the upper left surface, complemented by the main mode dial on the upper right side. On the back panel to the left of the viewfinder Fn5 toggles the display between the electronic viewfinder and the LCD screen, in the default mode this happens automatically via an eye sensor located below the eyepiece, but it’s good to have the override because the sensor can easily be activated when you’re not using the viewfinder – when shooting from the waist using the flip-out screen for example. The inclusion of a large high sensitivity 1in 20.1-million-pixel MOS sensor puts the FZ1000 a cut above in the point-and-shoot camera class. The second problem is before letting you upload anything directly from the camera you’ll first need to register for Panasonic’s free Lumix Club. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 is a formidable still and video camera thanks to a big ⦠There’s no sound captured. At this point it’s worth noting the RX10 sports higher bit rates for 1080p with a 50Mbit XAVC S option added with a firmware update in mid-2014, but there’s still no slow motion, nor any 4k video, two trump cards held by the FZ1000. 11.8fps burst shooting. The one thing the screen won’t do though is respond to touch. It's not often that a camera comes along and totally shakes things up. The Lumix FZ1000 is also well catered for when it comes to time lapse sequences with the choice of a traditional interval timer (Time Lapse Shot mode) or one which lets you take photos manually as and when each frame is ready (Stop Motion Animation). Unlike the viewfinder, the screen is 3:2 proportioned so when shooting stills in the native 3:2 sensor shape the image fills the entire screen area. Key Specifications. How is Panasonic getting 4K UHD from a sensor when Sony can’t, or won’t? Like the RX10, the zoom control is smooth, but slow, making it fine for small framing adjustments, but if you quickly need to get from one end of the zoom range to the other you’re better off with the rocker switch surrounding the shutter release. There are actually two intelligent Auto modes: plain Intelligent auto and Intelligent Auto plus. Expert Reviews™ is a registered trade mark. The FZ200, like Sony’s RX10 offers a constant f2.8 aperture throughout the focal range so at the longer zoom settings you already have a one stop advantage before you take the lens stabilisation into account. The bright morning sunshine provided enough light at 125 ISO to freeze the action with a shutter speed of 1/800. And though it’s a step up in terms of size and weight on earlier Lumix bridge superzooms, the FZ1000 still doesn’t feel quite as robust as the metal bodied RX10 – certainly it lacks the weather-sealing of the RX10, an important difference for those who intend to use either in inclement conditions. Like the 50fps mode this fixes the focus and exposure on the first frame and there’s no live view available during shooting. Copyright © Dennis Publishing Limited 2020. 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. 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