The manual focus is a touch clunky, but I do appreciate the focus peaking.

Picture quality is excellent up to 400, and in my opinion remains quite good at 800mm when there's plenty of light.== Fast focusing and fast determination of exposure settings and almost zero shutter lag, which allows the capturing of fleeting events.==

Here's why I took the FZ1000 instead:Pros- fast and accurate auto focus

Manual Focus Peaking works very well.

VERY fast auto-focus

On the other hand, zooming into 1080P content may lead to content that appears lower in quality (any thought folks?).The FZ1000's fast and accurate auto focus also influenced my decision.

It handles beautifully, with a great grip and lightning fast and accurate focusing

Worked fine initially and then when trying to take a photo, heard a succession of rather noisy focus hunting sounds, then a soft clunk, with an error message on the screen saying something like "Focus failed" I can't recall the exact words.

I've only had this camera for a few days, but have used it doing two basketball games at my grandson's school..results were amazing, exposure spot on, action stills in perfect focus.

The only drawback I can see so far is like the manufacturer states; you will lose some focus with the higher zoom levels, as to be expected.

Mainly using this camera to shoot kids and airplanes, I've had the following observations: - wish I had a little more telephoto reach, like 600mm - equally wish for slightly wider than 25mm, which is a bit cramped indoors (but that's where the LX7 comes in) - however, this combo of lens, sensor, and body is a trifecta for most uses - no problems getting my shots in any lighting condition short of black -- even the focus in low lighting is exceptionally fast and accurate - focus is crisp and this camera can catch the fast movements, but when I'm fully zoomed in, the sharpness falls off ever so slightly - I'm puzzled by why Pana left of the electronic ND filter, although i could go old-school and thread one on the end - the colors out of the camera seem spot on -- particularly impressive are the very natural redsThe high resolution, articulated, BIG LCD display is a huge improvement over the antique-looking FZ50's LCD, and very good even outdoors in bright daylight (though still tough to see when washed direct sunlight)

I so much complain about the a6000 having very poor macro and flash focusing accuracy with the motorized zoom lens

Excellent performance in indoor photographyI originally got this cam because I wanted to take pictures indoors under normal levels of artificial light with ultra rapid focus and exposure control.

The lens performs well and auto-focus is the fastest of any camera I've ever used.

Focus is fast

Manual focus mode is excellent, with the high resolution EVF, decent subject magnification, and focus peaking (the highlighting of what the camera thinks is in focus) to make this hands-down the most usable manual focus I've used since last film camera (

Takes great 4K video for the price, big sensor, fast accurate focus, and worth every penny.

I can now zoom out to 400mm, manually focus and then shoot with 100% certainty that my subject far away is in perfect focus.

Fast Focus - easy to photograph my busy 3 year old grand daughter

It also has a very nice manual focusing system with a large focus ring around the lens

Excellent picture quality, very fast auto focus, excellent zoom

all the way in took a great, well-focused shot of an airplane

The manual focus is a touch clunky, but I do appreciate the focus peaking.

I have never owned a camera which made such a loud noise when focusing, maintaining focus, and zooming

the FZ is no good for outdoors: too many buttons you do not need for a quick shot, poor focus for zoom over 200 and AFC does not keep up

This *really* causes headaches when I'm trying to focus close-up shots, because focus is tricky in that situation anyway.

Fast startup, fast focusManual focus with magnification and fine focus ring on the lens, or fine zoom ring depending on the setting

1 or 2 stops higher); detachable lens (but the lens on it is pretty versatile); improved auto focus at further distances (it doesn't always focus right in on faces).

, it's sharp throughout the entire zoom range and the focus is amazingly fast

Even in instances where bokeh was similar, shading in the blurred areas was blown out on the 300’s shots, but not the 1000’s