With a weight of approx. 850 grams, this bridge camera lies in the weight range of a SLR and lens. This is also evident in the handling. The camera reef on the right side of the camera is well-dimensioned and is outstanding in the hand. The camera housing is completely made of plastic and covered with non-slip material except for the camera top and bottom. The holding feeling is very good. One has the impression that the camera “sticks” in the hand.
Operation and handling
On the left and right of the camera top is a dial. On the right is the mode wheel, the opposite is responsible for different image sequence settings. Both wheels are resting forcefully and are hardly twisted unintentionally. A further setting wheel is located on the right outer camera corner. This wheel has both rotation and pressure function and it snaps.
Display and Lens
The rounded buttons protrude slightly from the camera surface and have favorable pressure points and contact paths. The four-way button is actually just a button and not a rotary switch. Two mechanical sliding switches are mounted on the right side of the lens. With one, zoom and focus settings, with the other the stabilizer is actuated. Particularly noteworthy is the knurled ring, which surrounds the optics. Zoom and focus adjustments are made with it. The mechanical quality of the ring is unbelievable. The turning movements are free of play and run smoothly as in oil. This is how perfect mechanics feels.
Flash and Autofocus
The mode dial sets the mode. P, A, S, M, C1, C2 and other three settings are possible. Depending on the mode selected, the menu items are designed. The main menu offers the submenus Rec, Video, Individual, Setup and Playback. Each of these submenus offers again a lot of options. This is much too slow for practice. In order to access individual menu items more quickly, the camera has five (!) Fn buttons, which can be used individually. And this, although ISO, WB, Macro mode and Autofocus mode can be set directly on the four-way button by means of its own buttons.
Conclusion
The display is rotatable and pivotable, 3 inches in size and has a resolution of 307,000 RGB pixels. The sharpness of the image is good, colors and contrast are reproduced neatly. And when it does not fit, brightness, contrast, and saturation, and blueness can be adjusted. The grading is rather small. For some settings, icons and text are slightly small, some are large. The 0.39 inch OLED-LVF viewfinder is class - no gritting and flickering. Also the sharpness and color of the viewfinder image are impeccable. The diopter compensation is performed on a plastic tooth wheel on the left side of the viewfinder.
The range of focal lengths of the Vario-Elmarit zoom lens is 16 times and ranges from 25 to 400 mm (KB). The light intensity starts at 2.8 and goes to 4.0, the shortest shooting distance is 3 cm. This makes it ideally suited for a wide range of shooting situations. An integrated flash jumps out of the camera shell after a small slider has been pressed. Automatic flash, red-eye reduction and long-term synchronization are possible.
The flash behind the built-in flash provides the ability to use stronger external flash units. Videophones will be pleased with the 4K resolution - the FZ1000 offers as the first compact camera at all. However, the FZ1000 makes a disturbing noise in the video operation - if one believes the forums on the Internet, this was not only in our test model so. If you do not want to have any noise, you better connect an external microphone, connection is available.
Phenomenally fast is the autofocus - over the complete focal range. 0.13s in the wide angle and 0.14s in the telephoto actually do the same. And also the picture quality is top, with the visual assessment as with the measured values. Here the FZ1000 plays the strength of its 1-inch-large sensor. The center resolution remains up to ISO 1600 at more than 1400 Lp / BH and the drop to the corners is moderate with 200-250 Lp / BH. Visually, however, the image quality already falls slightly with ISO400. The kurtosis value increases with no sensitivity over the magic mark of 1.
With the Lumix DMC-FZ1000, Panasonic shows how bridge camera is going today. Of course this also has its price - for 850 euros you can get a system camera with a lens.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000
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