Yes, it was my favourite of all time ... the first of the best part of the F series IMO ... (others will think the F200 was the best F series, but no raw and ergonomically not that good.)
I was initially interested in the LX100, but Gordon at CameraLabs.com found the lens is soft wide open (until f/8!) from 50-75mm (crop equivalent). The 4K video is compelling, however. But... the FZ1000 has 4K video, I had forgotten.
Samples aren't too bad in my opinion. What was it that you did not like in the FZ1000 samples? It was the Samsung NX1 samples that didn't impress me for color rendition.
External mic is only necessary for interviews and videos like that. Most produced video, including motion pictures, has a separately recorded audio track.
Dubbing dialogue is a pain, interviews with ambient noise usually sound really bad, and the moving gear sound of most in-camera video is imo just unacceptable. Voice over is fine, but limiting, and imo adding one track (music, sound, narration, etc) is enough for a hobbyist. But, for what you describe above where sound other than the actual environment isn't important, yes, I'm sure the mike/natural sound, or just cutting the sound and putting in a music track, would be fine.
From what I've seen the F900 is also very good, at least as good as the F770. Another point in its favor (as least for Fuji fandroids) it that the low cost new F900s are the ones built for the Japan market. None of the F900s designed for sale in other countries have the IR TX/RX that allow fast transfer of photos to select printers and Fuji cameras, such as the F31fd, F50fd, F100fd and a bunch of others. I checked all of the different language PDF manuals on the F900EXR's CD and the only manual that shows the IR port and has pages describing its use is the Japanese language manual. I tried it and it works, taking about a second or two to transfer each photo. The transferred photos are only 3mp though. Photos beamed to an F900 can finally allow F31, F50 and F100 owners to see their photo's histograms before transferring them to a computer. There's not much reason to shoot with the older cameras though if you've also got an F900.
I'm a long way from that ... I played a number of instruments as a kid, but piano was not one of them. And it turns out that piano is a rather difficult instrument
Sounds like something for which swimming in cash is the solution ...
That's well beyond my allotment of free time :-(Wow, 3000mm, for that much focal length maybe you'd want to risk buying them and cannibilizing them for parts and constructing your own super super zoom!
Yeah ... atmosphere mucks up its share of images at 1000mm ... so 3000 would be painful.
Yes, it's a pretty great cam. I was not criticizing it, just suggesting that the FZ1000 and the FZ200 don't make all that much sense together. The FZ1000 can do so much more and the sensor difference accounts for pretty much all of the rest of the issues.
Yes, the LX100 is not quite what the FZ1000 is. But CameraLabs could have had some sample variation issues. We'll need to see the issue confirmed before writing the camera off.
Yes, but the differences are very subtle. And contrast is hard to judge when the images are not carefully processed in raw. There are two many ways in which contrast can vary for the lens to get the blame.
An unfortunate fact of life for almost any lens it would seem ...
Strange. The camera gets rave reviews almost everywhere and I've been struck by how sharp its images are. Some are breathtaking for that class of camera.
Always has to be balanced against the feature set, and it would be pretty hard to beat this feature set for the price. (Can't actually be done in my estimation.)
