Is the HC-X1000 Parfocal?

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Speedster159

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Does anyone know if the HC-X1000 is truly parfocal or are they faking it with AF when you're in MF?

I haven't been using my cameras in a while since the Covid, and recently with the HC-X1000 I tried to crash zoom to get focus, zoom out to frame, and I normally don't do this but I used expand to double check focus and it was a little bit soft.

I'm pretty sure it should be parfocal optically or cheat electronically, since a couple years back I tried picking it up from the Panasonic Service Center/Main office over here after a cleaning then tried to do the same thing as above and it was severely out of focus as I zoomed out, I declined received it and returned a couple days later and it was perfect again.

I want to know if it's an issue with the lens, motors, or just some calibration before I bring it back into Panasonic.
 
A quick Google search has some random personal reviews saying it's parfocal but the official Panasonic brochure did not mention it once (I searched the keywords 'parfocal', 'par' and 'focal').

Maybe there's a chance it wasn't mentioned because it would have been as obvious as saying the camera records video since 99% of these kind of cameras are parfocal, but I'm not sure...I would have included the word at least once in this marketing.

http://kbnmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HC-X1000-PDF.pdf
 
It's a safe assumption that all electronic lenses are NOT parfocal or good at crash zooms. Manufactures don't list whether a lens is parfocal because it's an assumption that only cinema manual focus lenses are. It is difficult and expensive to design a lens that's parfocal.
 
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