For those who have never taken a balloon ride ... take-off is interesting as the "Pilot" tries not to hit anything near the takeoff zone. The flight is very peaceful as you glide silently over the terrain and get an entirely new view of everything. AND THEN ... the command "Brace for landing!" Let me explain the obvious - IF there is no wind at the landing zone, you will gently descend and maybe get a bump upon touching the ground. ON THE OTHER HAND ... if there is a wind at the landing site, it's an entirely different story. We landed at about 12 mph. The first collision was with an 8' termite mound - we took that out as we flew by. It did slow us and the "Pilot" took full advantage of the collision by immediately dropping us to the ground. Three BUMPS later we came to a stop and literally rolled out of the gondola. As they say ... "Anything you can walk away from..."
Yes, we did have a champagne breakfast after "Landing".

Our guide explained that the big cats don't seem to see us (people) as food, as
long as we stay in the jeep. They just ignore us as if we weren't there, or as in the case
of the Cheetah, they use the top of the jeep as a vantage point to survey
the territory. For those who have not seen this video - watch it !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwB6K5XvQg
We did have a small incident while observing a Cheetah one morning; the jeep would not
start. We called in to the base camp and another jeep was soon on its way. When it arrived
we were about 30 yards from the Cheetah and the second jeep pulled in front of us so that
a rope could be attached from it to our jeep. All we really needed was a tug/ pop the clutch/
and we'd be back in business. Our guide got out of our jeep on the side away from the Cheetah.
He was going to simply do a quick wrap of the rope around the front of our jeep. The moment
he got out of the jeep, the Cheetah's head swiveled around to look at us. The Cheetah had seen
our guides feet!! We mentioned this to our guide and I have never seen such a quick "Wrap the rope/
jump back into the jeep" as I did that day. Nothing escapes the notice of these animals.

I think that's exactly what I said. For the flash to dominate the ambient exposure must be minimized, relatively dark.

To stop a hummingbird's wings the duration of the flash must be a fairly small fraction of the cycle of the wing beat. Do you know what that is? I would have to look it up but I would guess it's nowhere close to 1,000 beats per second.

PS: I just looked it up and it's less than 80 beats per second. A flash or shutter duration of 1/1000 should easily stop the movement.

A bee flaps about 200 times per second. That would call for a shorter exposure.

Decent choice for travel. Yes, Panasonic seems to have a decent handle on their menu structure! I have their GH4, which is THE most ergonomically sound camera I have ever used, and I've used lots of Nikons and Canons (and Bronicas, Mamiyas, Yashicas, Rolleis, Hasselblads... plus Beattie and Camerz long roll beasts) over the years.

The Micro 4/3 system is extensive and mature. This body will mount over 80 different native lenses from Panasonic, Leica, Olympus, Samyang, Voigtlander, and others. The good news here is that lenses are 1/3 to 1/4 the size, bulk, and weight of their equivalent full frame field of view counterparts.

Your camera also can be adapted to many dSLR and SLR lenses and cine lenses. With both Olympus and Panasonic continuing to release new and highly advanced cameras in this category, you know you will be able to leverage any lens investment in the future.