If you can hear the sound of your breathing and the zoom at a wedding it must be a really boring one! the camera is what it is and it is pretty bloody good - I've had a quick look at the footage and I don't see any problem intercutting with the gh1 or 2, it's okay in low light, not fantastic but usable. I'll certainly have one with me at every wedding from now on - the ability to quickly more away from blocked position and grab the shot when I need to means it's a great backup camera for me - If Vitaliy can make any improvement, great but it's usefull right now

Vitalyi - when do you expect to start hacking the FZ200?

Regards :)

I haven't made any adjustments yet - still using it in STD config. I want to really get used to what it looks like on the camera & in the edit before I start playing around with the image.

Another wedding and gave it another try - I can do a rack focus with the zoom lever now, bit of fiddling but it works. The IOS is really interesting, try shooting while walking down a flight of stairs - you can see the correction happening. will post some footage tomorrow

You guys made me buy it... I will have my FZ200 shipped tomorrow. Tired - image in your clips looks very promising. Tell me please if FZ200 records sound while in 720p 120fps burst mode?

thanks for reply

Vitaliy- Do you know if it would be possible to hack the FZ200 to display the live view on a remote monitor whilst recording video. Currently the display can be viewed remotely using the USB output, but the screen blanks as soon as the record button is pressed.

@wielkiczarnyafgan

Thanks for the video. The FZ200 looks much sharper than the GH2 in your video. Although I liked the GH2 image more don't really know why. I hope you don't mind, but I borrowed a screenshot of your video to put here so I can ask why the FZ200 stills make this ghost effect on moving subjects and not the GH2?

My another test

OK. Sooo... driftwood - Can this be fixed by hack?

Honestly - I am little confused with the FZ200 macro mode - both auto and manual... :( I cannot achieve desired effects and I am sure I must be doing something wrong - even in the pdf manual there is not much about macro mode and can anyone explain it here?

Because it looks like FZ200 macro capabilities are limited... :(

In my opinion FZ200 in generall has more contrast, it's sharper, but provides less detailed image than GH2 - both set up to -2 -2 0 -2 setting

I need to test this but it seems that there are two most usable profile on FZ200: - "natural" and "standard".

The "natural" profile seem to show the most detail, but at the same time shows the biggest amount of noise ( the "Low Light 1250 ISO" test was shot with it [ sorry for weird W.B. ] ) - so it seems to be the best for outdoor shooting

On the other side the "standard" profile - which looks to have more contrast than "natural" but tends to show less noise when shooting with high ISO value... - maybe could be best for shoothing indors with high ISO?

I will try to shoot few scenes on monday to give you example.

And one more thing - the FZ200 image is very similar to those from GH2, so there will be no problem to combine them on the timeline - if someone plans to work on both.

What I like a lot in FZ200 is ISO 100 ;)

@wielkiczarnyafgan - Thanks for this. I really had no idea there was a difference in the profiles, other than acting as placeholders for your own custom Contrast, NR, etc, settings. I have been using standard, and need to really take a closer look, as the high contrast of the "Standard" has been apparent in the videos I have been taking. Hmmm...

It looks as though "standard" and "custom" are basically the same. But I do like "natural," especially with contrast dropped to -1. Surprisingly, with the Creative Video "natural" profile I think -1,0,0,0 looks good to me. I can get rid of noise, and add contrast, in post. I need to do some test shooting and have a better look. Isn't it strange how moving NR from -2 to +2 in "natural" doesn't make noticeable difference to the noise?

My LX7 behaves the same way...