Digicameinfo just shared that image of the new Panasonic FZ1000 super zoom camera. And the real amazing thing here are the specs which seem to say: Kiss my butt dear Sony RX10 🙂
Unlike the Sony it has a much larger zoom range of 25-400mm f/2.8-4.0 (vs 24-200mm f/2.8 from the Sony).
The sensor size is the same (1 inch) but the Panasonic records 4K videos too!
Full FZ1000 specs:
– 1.0-inch CMOS sensor
– Venus engine
– 25-400mm equivalent f/2.8-4.0 Leica DC Vario Elmarit lens.
– Lens configuration is 15 pieces in 11 groups. 5 aspherical lens (8 Side)
– AF linear motor. AF speed is 0.09 seconds
– 0.66 seconds start-up time
– 4K video
– 4K PHOTO to cut out a still image of 8 million pixels from 4K video
– The space recognition AF by DFD
– EVF is 2.36 million dot-inch organic EL 0.39
– A monitor 920,000 dot 3.0-inch
– Continuous shooting 12 frames / second
– Wi-Fi, NFC
– Focus peaking, ring type manual focus
– Camera RAW development
6 Responses
Sony is a great innovator and Panasonic is a great follower.
Hardly. Pana beat Sony to: fast AF on mirrorless, pancake prime lenses, pancake zoom lenses, full e-shutter, internal 4K, DFD. Even small enthusiast compacts, Pana did them long before Sony. Or bridge camera with f/2.8 constant aperture lens – the Sony RX10 is clearly a response to Pana FZ200.
As photography goes, Sony is clearly the follower. But as always, Sony is doing it with a great deal of bang, doing it differently and often better. Competition is a good thing.
Sony had to buy an already-established photographic company to become an photographic innovator.
This camera actually could cover almost everything I do! “Compacts” have come a long way.
4K video recording sounds interesting
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