Lumix FZ1000

kurth said:
but an anamorphic would be almost impossible to make for the zoom range of this lens, while the .6 would only be used when you just needed wider.
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Right. You would have to stay in the lower zoom range to make the adapter work.
 
Bump. I'm loving this camera more than words can say. Have the GH4 and misc lenses, And the C100 with Ninja... often reaching first for the FZ1000 in the morning.
 
I bought it, but ended up returning it. I absolutely loved many things about the camera like the zoom lens, IS and auto focus (which was incredibly fast), but the image had too much noise in it when shooting video (IMO). The camera has some great manual controls and various cool features, but no 24p in 4K will convince some not to consider it.
 
For sure the lack of 24p is bad news for many. Did you use the 30p 4k mode? I've found that in CineD mode it's just a bit noisier than our GH4.
 
Cinelike D was the worst! Extremely noisy. I also played around with Cinelike V and the other "photo style" settings (brought everything down to 0 and/or adjusted Noise Reduction in various tests) and even tuned the highlights/shadows curve, but I was ultimately unhappy with the image. For the record, I really did love everything about this camera and wanted to use it as a B-cam, but it didn't work out.
 
I got one recently and used it yesterday for the first time. There are a lot of things to like - 4k, decent lens etc. Image stabilisation is superb. I never normally use autofocus, but the face detection on the FZ1000 was so good I ended up letting it do the legwork on that front with no errors at all. There are some drawbacks I've discovered for shooting video though:
1 - using the wifi link seems nice as the iPad turns into a director's monitor very easily BUT the screen on the camera switches off after 30 seconds of recording when wi-fi is on, so you end up having to use the iPad / phone to monitor - also, the iPad will display everything on the screen except the audio levels for some reason, so a fail on that front.
2 - Using a monitor via the HDMI works very well until you hit record and the monitor feed switches off (like the 5D used to), so no good there. However you can have a clean feed, so I think this camera would work very well with a ninja or similar.
3 - No headphone jack. Why???
4- I shot on Cinelike D and found it to be more noisy than I'd hoped. Not terrible, but not great. Back to Cinelike V for me.

All in all I'd say this is a really good semi-pro camera that can be used to get away with pro shoots if speed and simplicity are needed, but don't expect to be able to rig it up like other DSLRs - this is a camera that works best on it's own. I'll definitely pull it out for handheld GVs and the occasional vox pop.
 
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