Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day welcome to this video
now you can probably see from the smile on my face and the box on the table the
new F said one thousand two has arrived came in by courier this morning from
Park cameras here in the UK bang on schedule and everything was packed
superbly well so you know hats off to park cameras they do a great job in
getting cameras out on time so you can see this is a new F set 1002 so today's
video is all around the comparing between the new camera on the existing
episode 1000 does it justify the 300-pound plus markup from the original
camera let's have a look in this video now the episode 1000 had a few issues
for me and you probably remember in my first video I was very critical about
the fact that the control ring on the lens wasn't coupled to either the zoom
motor or the focus motor with any fine control I tried it on several different
cameras and quite a few of you said no I haven't got the problem but I I went
through about six cameras in various dealers and everyone you had to rotate
this dial a certain slow speed for it to actually register with the either the
zoom or the focus motor so if you wanted to set a very fine focused position you
had to offer him a racket backwards and forwards to find that focus point that
was the first thing I wanted to check will unbox and put the battery in this
camera had that issue been resolved and the answer is yes it has the control
ring on this camera is superb you get a really nice feel from the zoom control
or from the focus control from this control ring it you can move it very
slowly you can move very quick very quickly and it will actually set focus
on your set zoom extremely well so that has been improved what they've improved
I don't know whether it's the encoder or whether it's the drive between that
encoder and the zoom or the focus motor but that has been resolved now remember
when the mark 1 first came out there was no 4k photo mode and it was an only via
a firmware update that we got access to 4k photo
now it wasn't the full package not like the later G eights 4 or gh 5 or the G
series where we had the option to do focus stacking or post focus or we had
the burst mode 4k mode so so that wasn't in the mark 1 but in the mark 2 yes
everything's there and it works superbly well now in addition to the 4k focus
stacking or post focus mode in the camera we do have no the option to do
bracketing not only an exposure conversation but also in aperture so it
can actually do a sweep from F 2.8 to f11 because f11 now is the smallest
aperture that got in the cameras there so that gives us an increased depth of
field over the f/8 and it doesn't seem to be much of a trade-off in terms of
diffraction-limited resolution when we go from that f/8 to f/11 in this camera
so can actually do a sweep of all the aperture or three stops or five stops
with it and also there is a focus mode which allows us to have up to 999
increments at set increments so we can go from a fix point to a fixed point
with a finite number of steps so you can actually do a sweep across your subject
to give you enough images there to focus stack yourself if he wanted to do that
the major changes to the camera are around the back so we've got a bigger
EVF it's still the same point 3 9 OLED display but the magnification has
changed and changed the optics in the viewfinder so it's gone from 0.72 0.74
and it is much brighter and it is a real treat to use up you find a much bigger
eyepiece on here than on the original mark 1 also we've now got a larger 3:2
aspect ratio touch enabled LCD screen so it does mean that we can access menus
from the touch screen we can actually change values we can do focus polls in
video in review mode we can swipe through the pictures like you can on
your smartphone you can pinch or you can swipe to zoom you've got all the
features there on that touch screen which is fantastic that's a feature that
should have been in the mark 1 when it first came out but obviously it wasn't
there and punished on the cover listen to the feedback and added the touch
screen in this mark 2 now another thing that's changed and has become a weakness
in these cameras is this back control dial it's become an issue with the SR
300 330 from the feedback on my photo blog site something like 30 people from
base of 2700 fed back the fact that this dial is starting to fail on the 300 you
either don't get a push in or the movements to the left and right are not
being picked up by the camera so I'm glad to see that that facilitates been
taken off the new camera and been replaced by this much more substantial
button like we have on the F 300 so we've got a rotary control wheel on the
top and an additional control at the front so between the two of those two
dials we can have variety of program features so you can change aperture or
shutter speed or exposure compensation we can program those two or whatever we
want on the lens barrel we've got a change from the switches and levers that
were on the mark 1 2 3 programmable buttons now and we've also got this zoom
compose switch when were in the 400 millimeters
effective focal length trying to keep your subject in frame is quite difficult
so there is a facility there that when you press that button the camera zooms
back out and it puts a white square which is the area of the field of view
so once you've got your target in that field of view release the button and
keep that target within that square and you'll be able to maintain your
composition while the lens zooms back out so that's another great feature it's
been on some on the Canon cameras and it's been on the Nikon cameras and now
we've seen it here on the F set 1000 there are some subtle changes to the
menus we've now got an extra facility in there for my menu so you can actually
put your own frequently used operations into my menu so that's a great feature
4k video mode we've now got the option to go to 30 frames per second from the
25 and 24 that were in the original so we've now got the higher frame rate 4k
video we've also got 120 and 140 video mode obviously there's no audio with
that but if you're into slow motion you've got full HD 120 or 140 grip has
been deepened slightly so if you've got big hands you'll be able to get a better
grip on the camera and everything else appears to be the same as on the mark 1
the lens appears to be the same there's still some debate on the 4 into whether
the new centre is the same as the old one or whether it's a new BSI front
illuminated sensor or exactly what the sensor is until someone's done a
complete breakdown of the camera we're guessing that it's still the same centre
or it's a new one with psi rather than the standard CMOS sensor apart from that
the camera is identical in terms of optical image performance I've been
shooting with both of these cameras all this afternoon and have just reviewed
all the work and to be honest as I expected there's virtually no difference
between the image quality between the two cameras even in 4k video mode
going at 30 frames a second yeah it's a bit smoother but in terms of quality
they cameras are giving me the same effect now there could be some
variability is between lenses and sensors normal sample variances between
cameras give you that change but these two side-by-side give them the same
result so if you want to skip to the end of the video there's maybe 20 pictures
from each of these cameras so you can compare them side-by-side if you wanted
to do that now the other feature that's changed with this camera is the fact
that you don't get an external butter charger there no supply you with a USB
lead and you can charge the battery internally via USB so you get an AC
adapter and the USB cable so you could actually charge you from the wall socket
or as I will be doing you can actually charge it from a power bank so you can
top up the battery while you're on the go so that's a nice feature some people
like that other people don't but I really do like the USB charging usual
lens hood is the same as the mark 1 same strap usual wider strap they've changed
the lugs from these d-rings to the strap hooks
I guess that's to prevent noise but you either like the deluxe or you hate them
so your choice with the camera you also get the basic operating manual the
warranty instructions and some information about shooting 4k video so
that's really all that's in the box and your warranty information now
another feature that's been added to this camera is the Bluetooth
connectivity so we've got the once a Wi-Fi is enabled you can connect over
Bluetooth and it keeps that Bluetooth connection open so if you're doing
things like GPS logging it can get the information from your smartphone and
automatically tag the picture as you're going along so you don't have to do a
batch tagging at the end of it but what we've lost is the NFC communication so
if you were an Android user you could use the NFC on here to pair up your
Android phone but that's been taken away from the mark 2 you're reliant on
connecting either using the QR code or by the passcode from the camera so you
gain one thing you lose another if you're buying the camera for recording
video can get a clean HDMI signal out of the
camera so you can free that to your external recorder and monitor but you
can't similar turn this record to an external device and to the internal
memory card you'll just get the no recording video message across the
screen so you can't do simultaneous recording but you could use it as a live
feed for OBS feed to something else so there you go you can use the clean HDMI
out if you so desire well there we are that's my quick overview for the new DMC
episode 1,000 mark - hope you enjoyed what I brought to you like what you see
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