balticvid Loc: Queens now NJ

Thanks your your response.
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PaulR

If I had to have only one camera.....and I do have more than one....it would be my FZ1000...so versatile, so able to do so many things...and do it very quickly with such outstanding results from composition to printing....it is my pick it up quick camera with no fear of compromising image quality indoors or outdoors....get it....you will love it...you will find yourself wanting to take it with you everywhere.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

The long menu is a consequence of the sheer number of things adjustable. Solid state electronics has buried forever the old tymes when you could twist a lens ring to get the f-stop and dial knob to get the shutter speed and another knob to set the film speed.

My gripe about the menues has to do with things of a kind being scattered around. Everything focus should be in one place, for example.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Why terrible? I have the kit lenses and would like to look out for

Magicman

Sony A6000 now there are the a6300 and a6500 . A6000 is still a great choice especially for the price. I use the Zeiss 24/1.8 and the Sony pro G 28-105 oss zoom lens. I would also suggest that you get the Freidman's book to learn all of the camera's many capabilities.

tdekany Loc: Oregon

I have a good friend who was looking to get a "real" camera a while back and was checking out the Nikon 3300/5300 at Best Buy. I suggested to also look at the a6000. He immediately fell in love with it. Long story short he came by one time with the camera and the kit zoom. We took some shots and we looked at the pictures on my 5k iMac. The corners were terrible! Now it could have been his copy, in fact even the f4 zooms for the a7 FF series have been really bad quality. One person went through 4 copies before he was sent a 5th copy and that was a good one. I have seen many people return 2 or 3 copies of these zooms before they received a good lens. And these zooms are not very cheap either. You may have a great copy of the kit zoom. If you are happy with it, no need to be concerned.

ElderJames

You are asking a good question. Let me comment from my own experience. I began shooting digital with Panasonic Lumix cameras, and as far as features and compactness goes, they are very good. I really loved my FZ200 and would recommend it and its successors to anyone getting started in digital photography. BUT after shooting lots of pix on trips to Turkey and the Holy Lands, I was continually disappointed in the amount of noise and graininess when I enlarged my photos to 100%, even when careful to shoot at the lowest possible ISO and still get a decent exposure. (Mostly ISO 100) I was so hopeful when the FZ1000 came out that it would have a genuinely large sensor, and so sad when it was a measly 1" size. The image quality came down to sensor size, and even the 1" sensor is very small compared to APS-C sensors.
So I made the jump to the A6000 at last Christmas' sale prices, when I got the body, the wide angle kit lens, and the zoom kit lens all for about $700. I've just returned from a Downers Grove Camera Club sponsored photo trip to northern Michigan using the Sony, and the attached picture of Tahquamenon Falls in the U.P. (which you should be able to download if I pushed the right buttons!) is straight from the camera with no touch up at all from Photoshop. EXIF = ISO 100/160th second/f5.6 zoomed to 180mm. This was taken with the 55-200 kit lens on a Manfrotto travel tripod. (As you can see, it was gloomy with lots of cloud cover, which was bad for exposure values but great for saturated colors.)
Hope you find that useful in your research. And of course, now there are the A6300 and A6500 as options, too. Given my need for a bit of help in holding things steady, I would LOVE to have the in-body stabilization of the 6500, but right now I'm still learning the capabilities and techniques of the A6000. Maybe a year from this Christmas??

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tnste Loc: New Westminster, BC

Before I bought the Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 I did a lot of research in comparing it to Sony, Canon, and Nikon bridge cameras. The FZ1000 beat the competition hands down. The camera store I bought it from said they are not easily impressed with cameras but with the FZ1000 they were very impressed with the IQ and functionality of the camera. The camera has so many features and also has 4K video. This camera with the Leica lens is equal in IQ to photos I take with my Canon 7D with my various Canon lenses including the L 70-200 mm. The only thing is it takes some getting used to with the electronic viewfinder and the controls. One camera store considered it to be their flagship bridge camera.

StevenTheVegan

Hmmm, I have the fz-1000 and decided to return it because I found blue specs in the viewfinder and the LCD screen before the photo was taken. The image on the card doesn't have the blue specs. I'm not sure what causes that.

I am in limbo of returning it and getting a Sony rx10 iii or replace the Panasonic for another Panasonic.

Magicman

Get the Sony. Great camera. You'll be glad you did

tnste Loc: New Westminster, BC

I think you might be referring to not blue specs but blue streaks that outline the subject. I have experienced it and was going to look into it. It seems to occur on bright sunny days so I figure it might be noise. However, the final image is not affected by this and the IQ is good. I would keep the FZ1000.

bhapke

I think I know what the "blue streaks" are. When I use manual focus on my FZ1000, one option is focus indication, which puts blue dots at the high contrast edges of areas that are in focus. I'm pretty sure that is what you are seeing. This can be turned on and off in the menu.

Bryan

StevenTheVegan

Thanks a LOT

tdekany Loc: Oregon

Focus peaking?

StevenTheVegan

Yes. I asked someone who has the camera about it and it was foreign to him so I thought I had a defective camera. Thanks.