The FZ1000 has been my main camera for the last 18 months and earned the Camera Ergonomics camera of the year award for 2014. It is the most versatile camera I have ever owned.
It is not perfect however.
There are two unappealing behaviours which could be improved by a firmware update and one function which I would like to see added, although I am not sure a firmware update could do it..
1. Auto ISO/minimum shutter speed responsive to lens focal length
In P or A Modes the camera sets an ISO which produces a shutter speed unresponsive to the focal length in use. This can result in unsharp pictures at the long end of the zoom due to the shutter speed being too slow for the focal length.
This should be easy enough for the clever software engineers to fix. The camera always knows what focal length is set. It also knows what shutter speed is generally required to prevent unsharpness due to camera shake.
I would like to see three versions of the auto ISO algorithm, slow, medium and fast, with the setting able to be allocated to the Q menu or a Fn button.
The suggested minimum shutter speed in each condition would be as shown in the chart below:
Lens setting | Slow | Medium | Fast |
Wide, Focal length E25mm | 1/20 | 1/25 | 1/30 |
Long, Focal Length E400mm | 1/200 | 1/400 | 1/800 |
Thus for still subjects when the camera can be held steady, the Slow setting might be best to keep ISO as low as possible.
For BIF, sport and similar the Fast setting would deliver a higher percentage of keepers.
2. Lens Retractafter playback
This irritates FZ1000 users all the time. There are many posts about it on user forums. Surely this could be deleted in software or at least made optional.
Setting Zoom Resume is a partial fix with the present firmware.
3. Hyperfocal Distance scale in manual focus. The camera has an analogue type MF assist bar but this does not indicate the actual focussed distance or give any indication of near/far depth of focus at the selected focal length, focussed distance and aperture. Some digital cameras do have this feature so it can be done.
3. Hyperfocal Distance scale in manual focus. The camera has an analogue type MF assist bar but this does not indicate the actual focussed distance or give any indication of near/far depth of focus at the selected focal length, focussed distance and aperture. Some digital cameras do have this feature so it can be done.
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