12harry
Prominent Member
FWIW... Seems Pana may have improved the VXF990 - the zoom reaches 24x, but elsewhere I don't see anything very exciting..... for example there appears to be no built-in ND filter and the Iris blades are not mentioned ( AFAIK).... The Dolly-Zoom remains ( for those beach shots when a whale appears) and something like Onion-Skin for animation fans. A new feature appears ( to me) to be dynamic contrast control - as I read it, it attempts to un-contrast images where there is something that's obviously too bright..... I guess it's the same mind-set that gives us HDR, only much more useful . . . but that ( like any "New Feature"), it needs folks to try it for real.
Any downside? Well the supplied battery-capacity appears woeful; since they suggest a recording time with the LCD off ( Eh?), and that isn't impressive - along with the usual dire warning re using anything other than Pana Expensive batteries.
Considering this is about £200 more than the VXF990 . . . . I'm at a loss to see the extra VALUE.
It will record up to 25Mpx stills, although like many Brands they appear obsessed with 8Mpx stills from the 4K content..... does anyone buy 8Mpx Stills cameras these days?
What is particularly annoying is the multi-model pdf they offer . . . so it's very difficult to read the content without having to "skip" bits . . and even then it's far from clear if you missed something important. You'd think by now a pdf could ( no, SHOULD), be smart enough to show only the bits that apply to the one model you have just spent £800 on. It would also help save the planet by saving both INK as well as PAPER.
(( + I hope they provide a printed Manual . . . at this price-point they should. My Sony came with one.)).
. . . . If anyone has bought this VXF1 model, perhaps they can give us the real handling Pro's and Con's.
Any downside? Well the supplied battery-capacity appears woeful; since they suggest a recording time with the LCD off ( Eh?), and that isn't impressive - along with the usual dire warning re using anything other than Pana Expensive batteries.
Considering this is about £200 more than the VXF990 . . . . I'm at a loss to see the extra VALUE.
It will record up to 25Mpx stills, although like many Brands they appear obsessed with 8Mpx stills from the 4K content..... does anyone buy 8Mpx Stills cameras these days?
What is particularly annoying is the multi-model pdf they offer . . . so it's very difficult to read the content without having to "skip" bits . . and even then it's far from clear if you missed something important. You'd think by now a pdf could ( no, SHOULD), be smart enough to show only the bits that apply to the one model you have just spent £800 on. It would also help save the planet by saving both INK as well as PAPER.
(( + I hope they provide a printed Manual . . . at this price-point they should. My Sony came with one.)).
. . . . If anyone has bought this VXF1 model, perhaps they can give us the real handling Pro's and Con's.