3/10/2023 0 Comments Fz1000 izoom![]() ![]() It’s not an option if you are planning to make a living. Many young photographers ask me for advice on becoming a professional photographer and my number one response is, “don’t think of yourself as a still photographer anymore. Whether an advanced aperture or a buddy professional video on any camera will always be an option on anything considered serious. The cost of 4K video is becoming negligible and like it or to, video in still cameras is here to stay. The GH4 isn’t quite up to the standards of the Nikon D4 but at less than 1/3 the cost, I can live with that for many of my professional assignments. Forget the 4K video if you choose and be thrilled with the fact we now have a mirrorless camera that competes with some of the finest DSLRs. When 4K is not in use, the camera’s computing power then becomes available for still photo capture, auto focus, RAW image processing, etc. Why? It’s all related to the extra computing power the 4K video capture requires. Without all the technology that drives 4K video, we wouldn’t have half the still camera the GH4 has become. To dismiss 4K video in the Lumix products in general and the GH4 in particular, is very short sited and here’s why. Many still photographers, who have no interest in shooting video, have lamented about their lack of a need for 4K video. If the LX8 rumor is true, Panasonic will have an amazing lineup of cameras from point and shoot to interchangeable DSLR’s, all capable of 4K video, that no other company has. Now the FZ1000 does the same and there is a rumor that the soon to be released Panasonic Lumix LX8 will also have 4K video as an option. The first race they won is the GH4 that records video onboard the camera without any external recording devise. ![]() Panasonic is driving this 4K video horse like a mad jockey shooting for the Tripple Crown. In the case of the Panasonic FZ1000, this new camera even shoots 4K video, something the Sony can’t do. Larger sensors typically equal better image quality. With larger sensors, the telephoto range is reduced but the picture quality is improved dramatically. What Panasonic and Sony have now given us are Bridge Cameras with much larger 1-inch sensors. The new Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000 all-in-one Bridge Camera. I’ll keep thinking about how to make this more clear for future discussions. Not sure that analogy will work for everybody, but it will have to do for now. Lake Superior is a much, much larger sensor, and the boat looks tiny. The analogy is, the smaller pond is the equivalent to a smaller sensor and the boat looks big. Now put the same row boat on Lake Superior, where I grew up, and it suddenly looks like a very small boat. That row boat doesn’t look all that small in a tiny pond. It’s kind of hard to explain but think of a small row boat on a little pond in your back yard. The subject is still the same size, it just looks closer/larger because it was recorded on a smaller sensor. In other words, they use a smaller sensor to make the image the lens is projecting look bigger. The hard to believe telephoto capabilities of these cameras is accomplished by cropping the sensor. That’s impressive but it comes at a cost of image quality. Some, like the Olympus Stylus SP-EE, with a telephoto range of 1200mm, are exceptionally powerful. They typically come with a substantially wide to long telephoto. ![]()
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