Dpreview just posted the full FZ1000 review and writes:
For those looking for a superzoom camera that excels at both photo and video quality, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000 delivers. While it doesn’t have a constant maximum aperture of its biggest competitor – the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10 – the FZ1000’s F2.8-4 lens covers a much greater 25-400mm equivalent range. The FZ1000 has an advantage over ILCs, as any lens you add to one of those cameras will be larger, heavier and pricier.
The camera gets a Gold Award with a very high overall score of 82%.
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This ought to teach Sony to be more reasonable with its pricing. It had a golden opportunity to make the RX10 big (also the RX1) and sell lots of it but set its price too high. Sony has squandered its significant lead in a fast bridge camera and I think now the RX10 will only sell well at the same or lower price than this FX1000.
You do not get it…….Every Pana or Oly that is getting schold is money for Sony. Sony is the beating hart in almost every camera.
Not relevant. There are dozens of component part vendors that sell products to camera manufacturers. That doesn’t mean these same vendors also sell consumer products.
Sony consumer products are completely different from its commercial product line, indeed may be in competition with vendors who license the latter.
That has nothing to do with Sony’s charge an eye-opening high price for its point and shoots such as this, point and shoots that for some reason are featured in a 43rumors blog.
You do not get it…….Sony loves it when camera’s (and a lot of other products) from other manufacturers are sold well. Every camera from Oly, Pana, Nikon etc….is money in their pockets. And yes the price for Sony goods are a little bit high sometimes. But thats because they are good or the first ones to come out. But they also release cheap marvels like the A7 series. The A7 is cheaper then the Oly flagship but the A7 is so much better in every way.
You do not get it either. You must be a sad pathetic person to post on a website you hate everyday. Seriously, get a life you worthless troll.
Nice response……I feel sorry for you that you feel the need to use those words.
“the A7 is so much better in every way”. You must be joking. A bigger sensor doesn’t mean better in every way. It has a bigger sensor, period. The E-M1 easily beats it in usability, plus WS, better íbis on the market, lenses, etc.. see Mr Huff. But coming from one that hates and doesn’t understand m43 and only think in sensor size we kinda understand.
Huff and the other children need IBIS and picture effects. Proper photogs are happy with a nice large sensor, plus SUPERIOR usability and viewfinder, like for example on the Sony body.
I prefer Canon or Nikon DSLRs, but that is just me. I wouldn’t surely pay over 400 for a nano four thurds toy.
Superior usability on a Sony body?? Haha… ok, proper photog… lol…
When you feel you have to type ‘superior’ in all caps, you’ve already lost the argument.
Carry on.
Huff is nothing but a Leica/Olympus/Sony fanboy supreme. He literally hates everything else.
he’s a Olympus daytime shooter, because he dares not show the noise levels of his beloved E-M1, if he shot at night.
Just like you are a Pana/Canon extreme fanboy. But if you would choose an EM1 over a A7S to shoot at night I know how smart you are.
So, MrALLCRAP. You think you are a better photographer than Steve Huff? Well, let’s see it. Please provide a link of your amazing work.
Put aside Huff’s well documented Leica fetish and let me provide a quote regarding the A7s from his website:
“MY NEW #1. Yep, for the 1st time ever in 5 years a camera has come along to replace my Leica M for my daily shooter, or the camera I grab 1st when heading out.”
I guess Huff is a genius now?
I think the term “fanboy”, by definition, is reserved for someone who is an obsessive advocate of one product. Or at most one brand.
Calling someone a Leica/Olympus/Sony fanboy is like saying I’m a Panasonic/Olympus/Sigma fanboy since all of my autofocus, Micro 4/3 lenses happen to be made by one of those three companies…
But do all those those features make better pictures? No, but the bigger sensor does and it give much more creative options. Why do so many people here hate FF? Because it’s a bigger sensor? Because Panasonic and Olympus don’t offer it?
I think if Olympus will bring a FF camera tomorrow that’s still capable of taking M43 lenses but can also mount FF lenses (like Sony A7 that does take APS-C and FF lenses) people would be screaming and be all over this camera! I understand some advantages of M43 but today it’s a fact for me that those end under 50mm focal length, and that’s where still most pcitures are taken regardless of system.
I haven’t seen any M43 fans here that ‘hate’ FF equipment. They don’t (I believe) go to the FF sites and attack them while evangelizing for M43 over and over again.
A better questions is why the alleged FF proponents aren’t spending time on those sites rather than spending so much time here.
Hey Vieze, just thinking…. are you hired by Sony to troll here? “Sony this, Sony that… love Sony”. And before the A7 serie, what is good for you?
it is more like hedging their bets. Companies aren’t buying up these 1″ sensors in the numbers like ARM sells CPU blueprints.
On the A7: Every way eh? How goes that lens shopping?
$1,498 is cheaper than $1,299?
Math is hard.
The margins on complete cameras are much higher than parts. How much do you think the 1″ sensor in the FZ costs? $20, tops?
Ok $20 X………? i think its good business for Sony and thats just only one camera where they have zero costs.
Zero costs except for the $18 it might cost for them to manufacture it…
Zero cost my foot. You talk like a donkey.
Why? Sony have had 6 months of selling the RX10 at a premium because it had no competition. Now they can drop the price and stay competitive. They are a business. They have had 2 years of market advantage with their 1″ sensor in the R series.
FZ1000 already gets DPReviewed and still nothing about GH4? Funny.
They still haven’t reviewed the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm 1:1.8 lens either – and that’s not only from 2012, it’s also one of the most popular lenses.
Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt: The GH4 is a feature packed camera. A good , thorough review will take some time to finish. The GH4 is getting way too much buzz for dpreview to NOT be working diligently to review it.
Great cam, wish it was sealed like the sony, would make a hell of a travel camera.
¨The FZ1000 has an advantage over ILCs, as any lens you add to one of those cameras will be larger, heavier and pricier¨
ANY lens ? wtf are they talking about ? I can think of at least two dozen ilc lenses that are smaller, lighter, cheaper AND faster within the FZ1000’s lens range. Sure, there not ONE lens that does everything the FZ1000’s lens does, but that’s the beauty of ILC cameras: you can choose ANY lens within that range and then go even FURTHER. Besides, this camera is already dslr/GH sized, I would rather go with m43 and share my lenses between a tiny GM body and a larger GX/OMD/GH workhorse (depending on the situation at hand) than be stuck with one type of camera body and a single lens option, no matter how convenient.
That’s not to say the FZ1000 is a bad camera or concept, it’s awesome for those that value an all-in-one solution, it’s just dpreview’s comment that I criticize
To be honest…..i think this camera almost outperforms almost every M43 camera. The difference in the sensor is not that big. And you’ve got it all in one package. These camera are going to make it hard for M43.
OMG… only BS come from this guy. Even when he’s trying to think.
Smaller sensor is better than m43. Bigger sensor is better than m43. This guy is a joke…. but is for sure in love with 43rumors…. simply pathetic. I don’t get it. Get a life sucker.
But it’s well known that 4/3″ is the worst sensor size, outperformed by 2/3″, 1″, APS-C and FF. Even regular compact camera sensors are slightly better. So 4/3″ is not a ‘sweet spot’, but a ‘sour spot’, combining the worst characteristics of small and large sensors.
Another12 year old moron. Pathetic.
Another fanboy who prefers to live on a fluffy, pink Care Bear cloud, instead of accepting the harsh reality. Why defend a format that only exists to cheat ignorant consumers?
The fear is consuming the trolls…
Their masters must be really scared and desperate to keep sending them over here. I wonder why.
What’s with the conspiracy theories? Trolling has been done in all sorts of internet forums since the dawn of the internet, and people do it because they think it’s fun to wind up other people. There’s no need to suppose that these people are hired by anyone, or are having an agenda, to explain their behaviour. They’re just bullies with too much spare time.
“It’s well known… “. Lol, I feel like I’m listening to Tokyo Rose.
Could you be a bit more vague? Kind of like what awards you’ve won?
I think you have a point there. I can see myself moving to compact camera with a 1″ sensor and a fast sharp lens in the future. I like the fact that m43 is a lot smaller than my dslr but an even smaller system with similar performance might even be better for me. No more bag to carry just one small camera that does it all.
I have the Nikon V1 which has a 1″ sensor, which I bought used as a 2-lens kit for less than the price of a 45mm/1.8 lens. But I’m still keeping my EM5. They each have their place. Once you have paid for them, after 2 years they become essentially “free”. So why do you have to choose one over the other when you can have both?
Just like m43 has made it hard for APSC?
Though the difference between 1″ and m43 is greater than the difference between m43 and APSC.
Why do you need to swap bodies or lenses if you already have it all? Surely not because of IQ, right?
This sort of cameras are going to make it hard for poor, forgotten but not missed m43.
The only thing an m43 camera missed is your head.
I am totally with you. That statement is wrong! But in fact I might be in the consumer group being targeted by the FZ1000. I guess a LX9 for everyday in the bag and a FZ1000 for travel would be actually a better kit for me. 😉
Still, interchangeable lenses have definitely enough to them to be interesting! 🙂
Panasonic superzooms are awful nowadays. The FZ70, FZ200 and FZ1000 are the latest and definitely the worst of the bunch. Where’s the successor to the brilliant FZ50?
Annnd… what is so bad about the FZ1000 again?
Why are so many talking to those bashers? Leave them alone and then they will either waste their time writing hate comments for which no one cares or they will stop eventually. Easy as hell, but quite hard to do (I know that myself).
I love this camera, but it’s not even remotely as good as any micro four thirds camera ever made. I’ve really got a lot of faith that M4/3 is in it for the long term, and this can only help
Anything the size, shape, and weight of a full size DSLR camera gets automatic favouritism at DPR, compared to anything smaller lighter and more flexible.
Not really. DPR has gotten a lot of criticism for supposedly trying to push portability as the most important quality in a camera. When Fuji X100S, Panasonic GM1, and Canon SL1 were picked as staff favorites last Christmas, the conspiracy theorists were having a field day. DPR were being paid to push smaller cameras, they cared more about convenience than quality and performance, etc.
HEY ! ADMIN ! SHOW YOUR FACE !
I’m sure you’re enjoying all the traffic these trolls are generating but PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!! Why won’t you understand that they’re killing your website in the long run, your precious trolls might attract traffic today but they’re driving everyone away from this site. Just where are all the old time regulars from 2 or 4 years ago ? (they still post on dpr so you trolls can save your sarcastic comments) Do you even read the comment section anymore ? only 25% of the comments are topic related, everything else is just trolls. You used to comment along with everyone but now you’re a silent accomplice of these A.H.’s Show your face and talk about this issue for once, you DON’T mod, you DON’T ban, you do NOTHING against these people (which btw are no more than 3 guys at most but account for 75% of post here nowadays).
Stop the charade and make a public statement, this has to stop someday, either close the comments section or start moderating but as of now this website has been completely overun by trolls, it’s not yours anymore, its theirs. Get your $ht together!
I agree, this is no longer an enjoyable place to visit for the target audience: mFT enthusiasts. The prevalence of trolls can be laid directly at Admin’s doorstep for allowing this free-for-all to continue unmoderated. Repeat posts on non-mFT cameras like the FZ1000 also contribute; once in awhile, fine, but what exactly is Admin’s fascination with this bloated boat anchor of a camera? I now only occasionally stop in.
Same here… :_(
Vote with your checkbook. I still read some of the comments because there’s still a lot to learn from some of the users on here.
The insecure full-framer comments are approaching plague levels, so I told the admin that I won’t link to this site when making purchases until it’s addressed.
Until then don’t waste energy getting mad at the FFers. Pity them instead. And have some fun at their expense 🙂
because FF cameras are getting cheaper than M43 stuff? Wake up, M43 is too expensive and this FZ1000 is one more camera that shows it. I own a lot of M43 stuff but meanwhile I say it’s not worth the price anymore compared to bigger sensor mirrorless.
FZ1000 is M43? Wha..,? Huh…?
And please list the FF cams cheaper than M43. Make, model and price, thank you.
You can do another self up vote when you’re done.
He didn’t say that FZ1000 is a m4/3 camera, but that it’s a camera that shows that m4/3 cameras are too expensive. In other words, it offers better value for money than m4/3.
The Sony A7 is cheaper than a GH4 and on same price level as the OMD-EM1. The lenses are on same price level, body of the full frame camera even smaller and lighter.
Yes, long lenses are smaller on M43 compared to FF but those can be replaced by even more compact cameras like FZ1000. Primes look much nicer on a Sony FF due to better DOF control and are very similar sized compared to M43. So where is the real advantage of M43? I’m just saying that in my opinion in 2014 with today’s choice it’s too big compared to bigger sensor cameras and too expensive.
That’s a thoughtful post. You’re not the Harry I’ve seen around here before, so excuse my snarkiness..
In the states the EM1 generally runs about $200 less than the A7, but fair enough on the GH4. Keep in mind that’s comparing the absolute cheapest FF to the flagship of M43. Throw in the A7r or A7s and it’s much different story.
As far as compactness, compare the E-PL5 to the A7 (or FZ1000). The difference is significant. Put the Panny 20mm pancake on the GM1 and it’s a different world.
As for the FZ1000. it’s a different beast. The typical ILC buyer is not comparing against a fixed lens bridge camera.
The Sony A7 seems like a fantastic camera. If I were only shooting portraits or in a studio I’d look hard at it. But when weighing features against lens options and portability, M43 is the king right now.
Are you serious?
You can get an M43 body at a fraction of the price of a Sony FF body. And M43 fast primes ARE cheaper than the relatively few Sony primes available. Not everyone wants to manually focus some other brand lens.
You have google, use it. Then you can come back and teach us the usual babble.
Why teach babble when I have the PhD of babble right here.
Thank you for another informative post.
Absolutely, M43 has the worst quality / price ration in the camera world. I call it “the con of the century”. it’s funny to see the salespeople trying to convince people in forums…
I’ve mentioned this before, but I guess it didn’t take. Why would ‘the salespeople’ come here to push M43? That’s called preaching to the choir.
Wouldn’t they be on other non-M43 sites ‘trying to convince’ them?
That is total bunk.
Spend some time comparing images using the DPR studio shot comparison tool with the ‘lowly’ E-M10 (with a 45 1.8) – a $1000 set-up – with other systems that cost twice as much or even more and it does extremely well, even at ISO up to 6400.
And compare it to an FZ-1000, there’s no comparison really, the M10 blows it away.
Look around — which open online forum is free from trolls? There are far fewer in forums that require you to register as a member, maybe, but they are still there and the downside is you get fewer people who would want to sign up. I just cherry pick through the comments and like Zeikon says bash them for fun whenever it takes my fancy.
What a great camera! I’ll get rid of my expensive Micro 4/3 tele zoom lenses and just keep the body and little primes. For zooms it’s a hard time for Micro 4/3 now as those 1 inch sensors are already better than the last generation Micro 4/3 sensors.
Well done Panasonic!
The only thing an m43 camera missed is your head.
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