Panasonic FZ1000 chroma subsampling? (4:2:2? 4:2:0? Other?

[Randall_Oelerich]

Anybody know? Not listed on specifications on the web for this camera. I waited 30 minutes with online chat at panasonic.com and nobody there knew, unbelievable. Hoping maybe someone here has this camera and somehow can tell from properties of a video clip. The $700 price of this camera with its lens is just so tempting for getting into 4k 24fps micro indie filming, but I want to know its chroma subsampling to know if it can handle chroma keying (I want at least 4:2:0 but 4:2:2 would be even better).

 

[TheTrickster]

It will be 8Bit 4:2:0

 

[Randall_Oelerich]

It will be 8Bit 4:2:0

Thank you Trickster.
For $700 it was too much to hope for better. Probably okay for chroma keying out some minor stuff in a low budget film, though I will have to reconsider if something more like the Canon X10 at $2000 but 4:2:2 is worth the extra chroma subsampling for vfx, post production color, etc.

 

[Gweilo66]

Found this..might be of interest if you can use a recorder for keying segments:

"IR confirmed FZ1000 can do clean 4k or 1080p 4:2:2 out through HDMI. The only limitation is that you cannot write to the internal card at the same time.


http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2014/07/31/the-panasonic-fz1000-can-output-clean-hdmi-video"

Have you had mechanical noise from the zoom/lens..even when not zooming? Some reports of that.