Where To Buy Panasonic Cameras [VERIFIED]

Lumix G cameras use Micro Four Thirds sensors. These are a little smaller than the APS-C sensors found in rival mirrorless cameras from the likes of Fujifilm, and while this may seem like a disadvantage, it does enable the system to field much smaller and lighter bodies and lenses, making it significantly more portable for travel.

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Panasonic has built up a reputation for producing mirrorless cameras and compacts that excel at shooting both stills and video. With its Lumix GH series, it has quietly gone about the business of producing some of the best consumer video cameras on the market, while its TZ (ZS) compacts in the US are hugely popular for travel photography.

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All LUMIX cameras come with a free extended 3 year warranty. You can manage your gear, process repairs and contact our expert technical team anytime through the LUMIX Pro Services portal. Pros can opt into our paid Platinum level program for expedited service and shipping, free clean/checks and discounted out-of-warranty repairs.

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Although it sports a new, modestly restyled body with several new or redesigned controls, the Panasonic FZ1000 II is largely the same camera as its predecessor in terms of its imaging pipeline. The sensor size and resolution are unchanged, and so too is the lens which sits afront that sensor, in all respects but one: its aperture iris can now stop down to F11 across the zoom range, where that in its predecessor was limited to F8.

Around back, the viewfinder now has slightly higher magnification, and the tilt/swivel display is the same resolution as before but uses a new panel that should be brighter and more efficient. But neither change is significant enough that you'd notice without comparing both cameras side-by-side.

Panasonic has also extended its '4K Photo' modes, which grab or generate photos from short video clips. In-camera 'post-focus' lets you pick where you want the plane of focus to be after the photo has been taken, and focus-stacking will work in-camera to stack multiple planes of focus so that, particularly with macro work, all is in accurate focus. There are also 30-frame pre-burst functions, as well as auto marking and sequence composition functions, the basics of which we cover here.

I've been a big fan of large-sensor, long-zoom cameras ever since I reviewed the first in the category, the Sony Cyber-shot RX10, back in 2013. And when I followed that up with a review of the original FZ1000, I called it an 'exceptionally fun camera to shoot with', and said that while the then-flagship Sony RX10 had much to recommend it, including its superior lens and video quality and tools, I'd personally choose the Panasonic of the two if spending my own hard-earned cash.

After a long five-plus year wait, I'm thrilled to have finally gotten hands-on with the Panasonic FZ1000 II, and doubly so to report that it addresses a couple of key concerns I had with its predecessor. Raw buffer depth and battery life were both areas where I felt Panasonic needed to revisit its design, and it did just that.

Lastly, the FZ1000 II comes with no claims of weather-sealing whatsoever. For such a versatile travel camera that you're likely to have with you in a variety of situations, it'd be a welcome feature. But beefed-up sealing would increase cost: the latest cameras in Sony's RX10-series do offer claims (but no rating) of weather-sealing, and they are more expensive.

As for the on-screen user interface, I'm a huge fan of the FZ1000 II's overhauled menu system. It's much cleaner, more modern and less disorienting than the original FZ1000, and now now fits eight items per page, instead of six, and you can tap on any individual item on each screen to adjust it directly. There's also a new My Menu feature where you can save your own favorites. Although its basic structure is broadly similar to before, it feels more like a night-and-day change from the old menu, and I love it!

For a same composition, same settings, same site...Can we see a difference between two photographs, one taken with the FZ1000II and the other one with the VLUX5?With RAW files we end up with a similar results after editing... but what's about JPEG files from the 2 cameras?

I still believe DPReview had a defective unit for the FZ2500 test. I bought three of same model separately and each everyone of them produces excellent sharp pictures, compared to my other M4/3 cameras. I strongly advise getting another unit to test the optical quality of the camera. The Lumix FZ2500 is an exceptional product when it comes to features, par none, regardless of price.

I do love these keyboard concept cameras with a 1" sensor slotted in to replace a 1/2.3" sensor all else being the same and also wanting to put more pixels on a small 1/2.3" removes a great advantage of the FZ330.The RX10 IV is what happens when you put a f2.8 constant focal ratio lens with this reach in front of a 1" sensor and hardly the same size and weight weighing 58% more and none too cheap. Just buy one of them as I doubt if Panasonic will want to take on Sony directly in this up market rather specialised stuff. The FZ1000 and 2500 does for many so no need to splash out.

Is this why it tends to be considered a bit noisy if in the lens and in front of the mikes though a lot of people panic over any noise from a camera and videographers do not like any noise at all, which is why we have video cameras and still cameras as separate entities? What is good for one is not so good for the other.

It seems like a lifetime waiting for the lens to extend when facing a fleeting photo opportunity. The nice thing about a mechanical zoom is that it can be set to where you want it before the camera is even turned on, allowing you to be ready for the anticipated situation.

All these 1" bridge cameras retract electronically to be more compact, but this could be done mechanically as well. The main problem here is that as profit margins decrease, manufacturers are more and more fearful of producing unique products, so we end up with multiple cameras by different manufacturers which are in-essence the same.

I liked the FZ1000 when I had it. Now I have Olympus Micro 4/3 cameras, and I think that I could get equivalent versatility and image quality with the Olympus 12-200mm f/3.5-f/6.3 lens, plus weather sealing. I'm considering this option for general, non-pro type purposes.

These bridge cameras with a large dedicated lens housing extension, whatever the make, rarely if ever have complaints about dust or moisture. The problem is mainly with lenses folding completely back in to the slab body and exist across all brands.

The whole point is that you cannot say that f2 on Iphone is "equivalent" to f16 on FF, since on both cameras you'll expose the same way, adjusting the shutter speed for f2 and not for f16, although DOF and diffraction will be comparable at f2 on iphone and f16 on FF. But these parameters are obviously less important than the shutter speed.

I have red a lot of books, and made a lot of pictures with a lot of cameras, film and digital, from medium format to smartphone. "Equivalence" is a modern term that has been introduced to compare images coming from different sensor sizes. In the old times nobody would have talked about équivalence between a Leica and a 4x5" camera. Everybody knew that: 1) f5.6 1/100 gives the same exposure on both cameras. 2) the Leica picture @f5.6 will have more DOF than the 4x5" picture at the same aperture. 3) at f32 the Leica lens will suffer from diffraction and picture quality will be degraded while the 4x5" lens will be OK at f32. 4) Roughly speaking the DOF will be the same with the Leica @f5.6 and the LF camera @f32. That's all, and digital photography is not different but some people try to confuse everything. Photography is not rocket science (and by the way I know some rocket science...)

Since 1" sensors are noisier than larger sensors, the brighter lens f2.8-4 lens simply allows you to shoot at lower iso to at least try to match the IQ of the photos shot at higher iso on larger sensors. It will never match the big sensors because iso is not the only factor in IQ. There's also DR where bigger sensor is always better. That's what i mean by the larger aperture on this Panasonic being insignificant. It doesn't help with IQ.

OK, last post: f2.8 means something whatever the sensor size, since it allows to take a picture at iso 200, f2.8, 1/125. If iso 200 on this camera delivers a good enough IQ *for me*, I don't care knowing that it is actually equivalent to iso 800, f5.6, 1/125 on another camera, bulkier, heavier, more expensive, more intrusive. And 99.9% of human being don't care either, including great photographers using exclusively Iphones. In the 30's, when the first Leica was introduced, your "photon counter" ancestors that used 4x5" cameras had the same speach. Ansel Adams, the most boring photographer of all times, was from the same tribe. RIP.

Some owners of the Leica branded cameras will swear there is a difference in JPEG processing with their cameras delivering a "Leica look". I was able to compare images taken side by side from the FZ1000 and V Lux typ114 and they were to all intents and purposes identical. The Leica cameras do come with longer warranty in some countries and probably a higher resale value.

So it was released more than 1 year ago but I really hope that Panasonic and even Olympus will improve a lot their sensor with a better image quality and with a PDAF system ! And if they put an USB-C port it will be nice too.They got really interesting cameras, mostly Panasonic with their weather-sealed and stabilized bodies compared to APS-C cameras where, many of them, don't have these features...I hope 2020 or 2021 will be a game changer for MFT, otherwise I think the number of MFT customers will decrease... 041b061a72