Shooting Experience: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000
Published Jul 8, 2014
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dpreview staff
Panasonic's latest superzoom camera, the Lumix DMC-FZ1000 offers a highly attractive feature set. Based around a 25-400mm equivalent zoom and a large 1"-type CMOS sensor the FZ1000 combines a very useful zoom range with excellent image quality in stills and video mode. We're working our way through a full review right now, and we've just added a shooting experience page to our detailed first-impressions review. Click through to see what we think.
Click here to read our shooting report on the Panasonic FZ1000
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