The NEX 6 has a APS sized sensor while the FZ1000 only a 1”. I immediately took out my Sony NEX 6 to further check things out, to compare viewfinders, to compare images, to compare ease of use and the effect of the larger sensor size of the NEX 6. I not only could see my shooting parameters, shutter speed and aperture, but ISO, white balance, along with a host of most other shooting parameters.

It wasn’t until I picked up the FZ1000 and took a close look through that EVF that I realized it was as good as using an optical viewfinder like on my Nikon D90 dSLR, only much better. It was bright and I was able to display all the shooting info I wanted. My impression of the FZ200’s EVF was very good, only a very slight bit of blurring when following a moving subject. The FZ1000 had an automatic eye sensor which solved that problem 100%. Yes, I did loose 2MP of image and about 1x of zoom (25mm-565mm or about 23x zoom range) but the images again were superb even at higher ISO levels.Ī couple of things with the FZ200 had bothered me, the electronic viewfinder (EVF) of the FZ200 required manual switching between the LCD and the EVF. I simply set one of the custom settings, C1 to give me a 10MP image. My 2nd concern, the loss of some zoom range, also disappeared. In fact, some images I got at ISO 3200 had very little noise and still kept fine image detail. The 1” sensor of the FZ1000 made shooting at higher ISO levels very nice, up to ISO 1600 the images were better than what I was raving about on the FZ200 shot at ISO 200. The 2nd thing that worried me was giving up the 24x optical zoom of the FZ200 for the 16x zoom of the FZ1000. Two things worried me about making that switch, the impact of giving up the constant f2.8 lens for a f2.8-f4.0 lens on the FZ1000. ve to wait to charge the battery, I was able to start using with the FZ1000 right away and since I was very familiar with the FZ200, it was no problem to pick it up and use its big brother, the FZ1000, a very easy to master learning curve. I noted in that original review that the FZ1000 used the same battery as the FZ200 which I had and so did about a half-dozen of my photo students. Now that I have been using that camera for six months I am even more impressed. I titled the review” My first 5 days with the Panasonic FZ1000”. When I first bought the FZ1000 back in October of 2014 I wrote a two page review on it for my students in the digital photography class I teach at Emeritus College in Santa Monica, California.

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