If Camera shake is the problem and you do not have a tripod with you, be sure to trigger the shot thru the view finder, not the lcd. Go ahead and use the LCD to compose and set up but trigger the shot thru the VF. that way, your entire body acts as a tripod and your forehead is a stable platform.

I use field corn.

C’mon! It’s not what you see or what the camera sees.
IT’s how you respond to what you see and how you able to share that response, that experience.

I have six display screens. None of them includes the. zoom position.
The. ONLY time the zoom position is displayed in the LCD screen is immediately after you set the zoom and that is only momentary.

Thanks for the response.
Your moniker intrigued me. I served in the USAF for 20 years, retired in 1967 with a 100%
permanent disability.

In order to set the shutter speed.
I’m 90 years old. SoI’ve doubled my targeted minimum shutter speed setting to be TWICE the reciprocal of the focal length. e.g. If I’m at 200mm zoom, I’d like my minimum shutter speed to be 1/400. It’s the first setting I make when I shoot in manual/Auto ISO.
My do-all camera has become the Lumix FZ2500 bridge camera and so far the only way I’ve found to display the digital value of the zoom setting in the LCD screen is when I change the zoom. But I want to be able to check it without changing it because that will determine my minimum shutter speed..
(My auto ISO is set to go no higher than 3200.)

Anyone know how to display the current zoom setting without changing it?
best I can do is to nudge the lens ring as carefully as possible. That’s probably close enough as the only reason I want to know the setting is to set the minimum shutter speed. .???

Thanks, linda! Note, however, that it does mention the significance of the yellow histogram changing to white.
Responding to your reference to the advanced manual, I checked the basic manual and found that the histogram turns white when you have a useable exposure.
(Real engineers don’t read the manuals! 😉).
Age 90; still learning.

Lumix FZ2500: what is the message when the histogram changes color white/yellow?

Wouldn’t this distort the image, Squashing it to provide. a text band within the original image size? e.g. if I shot the image at 3:2 and I add one inch text band to the canvas, then print it at 4x6, doesn’t that squash the original image?

Un-be-leave-i-gable! (Arte Johnston)

The OP’s topic is FZ vs FZ.

Such A bold assertion surely demands a supporting argument! I haven’t encountered a single comment to support your assertion.
I upgraded from the FZ1000 to the FZ2500 and have congratulated myself every time I pick up the camera.
Granted, If - and only ‘if’ - money is the dominant consideration, I’d have a hard choice between a used FZ1000 and the FZ2500. But your unqualified statement simply won’t wash.

I purchased a used iPhone at a server store.
Can’t find an App for it or 3rd party app.
I did find and purchased Emil’s course.
Any suggestions for an App?

Thanks, Rick!
That’s what it looks like to me also.
I can see the need for hi power event shooters but not for my mo.