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I recently bought a Lumix FZ-1000 new as a Christmas present to my self; my most recent digital camera is about 15 years old(!), and is not a patch on this Lumix. Even though this is actually a 4 year old camera that was still in stock at a store, it still caused me to sit a lot, after trying something out that I had read in the manual, with my mind blown quite a lot. To give you an idea, my other digital cameras have been a Fujifilm s602zoom, a Konica Minolta 7D, and a Sigma SD9. Comparing this to the FZ1000 is chalk and cheese, even though it isn't an SLR, but a Bridge camera.
There is only issue I have a concern about; I can work with it, but it is a problem. It's apeture range. It's maximum aperture is f/2.8 ( or 4.0 when you zoom in), but it's smallest aperture is f/8. That is a range of 3 stops in aperture. Certainly, in these days when there are such things as Focus Stacking around, perhaps this is not a problem, except that I don't know how to do this yet, but I will figure it out.
It's that all reviews of any camera you can name usually only tells you the maximum aperture. Looking at specs on line, you will be told the entire range of ISO for a camera, the minimum shutter speed, and if the camera can't to Bulb shutter speed at all, but you will only ever be told the range of Maximum aperture the camera/lens has. DPreview is included in this here. Perhaps this is something that could be added to the list of specs that is included on cameras listed on this site?
The Aperture issue with the FZ1000 is only something I will have to work around really. Especially now that I've actually bought it. It's is still an amazing camera.
Something else that doesn't get included in reviews is what software gets included with the camera. I think this is because there is an automatic assumption that the included software won't be used, because the photographer will already have Lightroom or some such. This is sad, as sometimes a camera is a budgetary concern, and a purchaser won't necessarily have the extra money to shell out for something made by Adobe, and will have to use what came with the camera.
The DVD that comes with the camera includes PHOTOfunSTUDIO, which is a kind of Lightroom equivalent, but without quite so many features, as well as Silkypix which is a RAW file editor for Panasonic RAW files, which is just functional. Both of these are fully licensed version, but old. You will only be able to upgrade them so far without having to pay extra. And if you are going to do that, then you may as well go and buy something better anyway.,
There is another package for editing Video files, called LoiLoScope, but it is only a trial version. Can't tell you much about that, as I wasn't interested much in the video parts of the camera, and so didn't use it.
There is only issue I have a concern about; I can work with it, but it is a problem. It's apeture range. It's maximum aperture is f/2.8 ( or 4.0 when you zoom in), but it's smallest aperture is f/8. That is a range of 3 stops in aperture. Certainly, in these days when there are such things as Focus Stacking around, perhaps this is not a problem, except that I don't know how to do this yet, but I will figure it out.
It's that all reviews of any camera you can name usually only tells you the maximum aperture. Looking at specs on line, you will be told the entire range of ISO for a camera, the minimum shutter speed, and if the camera can't to Bulb shutter speed at all, but you will only ever be told the range of Maximum aperture the camera/lens has. DPreview is included in this here. Perhaps this is something that could be added to the list of specs that is included on cameras listed on this site?
The Aperture issue with the FZ1000 is only something I will have to work around really. Especially now that I've actually bought it. It's is still an amazing camera.
Something else that doesn't get included in reviews is what software gets included with the camera. I think this is because there is an automatic assumption that the included software won't be used, because the photographer will already have Lightroom or some such. This is sad, as sometimes a camera is a budgetary concern, and a purchaser won't necessarily have the extra money to shell out for something made by Adobe, and will have to use what came with the camera.
The DVD that comes with the camera includes PHOTOfunSTUDIO, which is a kind of Lightroom equivalent, but without quite so many features, as well as Silkypix which is a RAW file editor for Panasonic RAW files, which is just functional. Both of these are fully licensed version, but old. You will only be able to upgrade them so far without having to pay extra. And if you are going to do that, then you may as well go and buy something better anyway.,
There is another package for editing Video files, called LoiLoScope, but it is only a trial version. Can't tell you much about that, as I wasn't interested much in the video parts of the camera, and so didn't use it.
