John Miles

With my FZ1000 I get remarkable lens flare. It's no FZ50 lens that's for sure. But it's good and sharp for the most part, so hay ho.

As a photographer keen on using the PASM mode settings on my cameras, if find the menu system less than optimal. Just to put it out there for manufacturers, my dials: MODE: P, A, S, M, AUTO. SENSOR ...

Part 3 The FZ1000 is, today, fully established and set up as my prime camera. I remember when I first started on this forum, we spent many an hour exploring how we could improve the images from our ...

A few photos from this recent holiday are posted in a gallery.

Part 2. So by mid holiday I was having a ball with the FZ1000. I could hold ISO 800 still enough to capture any scene before me. The capture rate was near on 100% by now. What I wanted to take; I ...

So ownership of a new camera could not have been better, as in at the start of a holiday; full of photo opportunity and photographic challenge. In the former Venice excelled. In the latter 5 days ...

Well thank you all for the warm hearted humour and starter tips. I have just enjoyed a few days in Venice, so I will be posting my used to be usual SFC's in the next day or so. And I have more ...

Well the batteries were dying and the old girl started to develop faults where she would switch off mid use, or just freeze. What a truly fabulous camera the FZ50 turned out to be.