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Chua Say Peng ..the 18-105 G is not even close.

Chua Say Peng , I have both lenses the Sony 24-205mm f4 for my A7R3, and the sony 18-105mm f4 for my A6500. I really like both lenses, but the edge goes to the 24-105mm for total image quality. But don't knock the 18-105mm f4. It is great fit for my A6500 and I love the power zoom feature for video shooting. If you use the full-frame designed 24-105mmf4 on APS-C cameras like the A6300, A6500 you will benefit from using more of the center sweet-spot of the lens. Edge-to-Edge image sharpness is outstanding in this scenario . Cheers

Gerald Williams ...I do agree with you on that but since I don’t shoot videos I was thinking more in terms of still photography. Although I don’t own the 24-105 I will in 2 weeks and it will be going on an a6500. Like the comment 👍

Leroy Jones I believe you are making the wisest choice. That lens will be great on your A6500. Cheers

Gerald Williams hows the autofocus on the a6500?

Yes, that could be. At F1.4 I also see quite some chromatic abberation effects. At F2.0 it gets a lot better.

Cinevideo-NL So for people who are on a budget and want to spend less than a 1000 USD, I would still recommened to get the FZ1000...

Yeah, the FZ-1000 has 16x optical zoom, really practical, specially for video. Quite incredible that Panasonic was able to include such as powerful Leica lens with this camera.

Cinevideo-NL I love that zoom. How you like the camera so far? Pretty clean crisp picture?

Kaster Troy After using both cameras for over 1 month weeks now, I can say that I still really like that FZ-1000 (motorized) zoom lens.The image of the FZ-1000 is good (including for stills), it just has some more noise than the GH4 when you pixel-peep it. But yeah I can say the picture is crispy. Unfortunately, with 4K video on the FZ-1000 you lose the wide-angle because of the crop factor. The 25 mm turns into 37 mm. When you film 1080p, the 25 mm will remain 25 mm wide angle. So for professional work regarding 4K video I think most people will select the GH4, where the image has somewhat less noise and you choose from a wide ranges of lenses.

Cinevideo-NL Yeah thats too bad about the crop but from what I've read, a lot of cameras with 4k are doing that. Does the GH4?

Kaster Troy Yeah. The GH4 also uses a smaller portion of the sensor for 4K video, to avoid pixel binning. In 4K mode, the chip reads out 1 pixel on the chip for 1 pixel in the 4K video. Normally the crop mode for stills and 1080p video on the GH4 is 2x (versus full frame), so a 14 mm wide angle turns into 28 mm FF. For 4K the crop mode is around 2.3, so 14 mm becomes 32 MM. There are new 10 mm lenses out on the market that solve that problem, coz your 10 mm lens will end up being 23 mm in 4K. Thats wide enough an angle I think. And then you also use a speedbooster.

@gotDesign: Gee man, are you a hater? I guess you haven't actually used this camera. Show me ANY camera that can do 4K video at this level of quality for under 900 Euro and we'll discuss it.

Thanks! Both the GH4 and FZ-1000 are unique 4K video cameras at this moment in terms of value for money. Panasonic is clearly taking a lead here. To get quality 4K video from a camera costing less than 900 USD (the FZ-1000) is amazing.

On the GH4 I used the standard 14-42 mm Panasonic lens, set at around 20 mm, so that it would match the field of view of the FZ-1000. (thats about 46 mm FF) The cameras don't have the same crop factor (compared to full frame/FF) because of the different sensor size. The Leica lens on the FZ-1000 is in fact 9.1 to 146 mm, which works out as 25-400mm (FF) for photos and 1080p video. 1080p video is good too, on the FZ. For 4K it will work out as 37mm - 592 mm. (different crop). This means that on the FZ-1000 in 4K your widest angle is 37 mm (FF) which is only very moderate wide angle.

Cinevideo-NL Thanks for your reply! I was wondering because in 4K we evaluate the quality of the lens just as much as the sensor ;) And yeah that's a awful lot of conversion as both cameras have additional and different crop ratios when recording in 4K

supercurioTube Yep, the crop factors are confusing to many. The golden standard in DLSR land, is to use full frame (FF) as the reference. Because the 4K video uses a smaller portion of the imaging chip, the crop is smaller, so therefore the 25 mm (FF equivalent wide-angle) turns into a 37 mm. On 1080p video you will in fact get 25 mm, F2.8. The quality of 1080p video on the FZ-1000 is better than for instance on the Canon 5D mark III. All in all, the FZ-1000 offers very good value for money.

supercurioTube By the way: I will publish a new short video this week on the low-light capabilities of the FZ-1000. They are not at all that bad, though the GH4 is better, it has less noise. (bigger sensor)

Cinevideo-NL Yes 37mm as equivalent at its widest in 4K. It also means the 35mm equivalent for the aperture in terms of DoF is 11.2-16, and Panasonic happily forgets to mention that. This lens bokeh appear to be really nice but the additional crop rebuts me to buy it as I'm looking for a solution that's able to provide some background separation in 4K portrait videos. Also, 25p only 4K on the PAL camera :/ Your sample shows how impressive this lens sharpness is which will no doubt make happy those who like the long zoom!

I had the OIS on, while it was on a tripod. That causes the wobble, sorry. I should have turned it off. Check here: digital-photography-school.com/image-stabilization-on-tripods/ On new footage, after turning it off, the image was completely stable!

I ordered it from a German shop (Foto Hamer in Bochum). For some reason Panasonic ships camera's earlier to Germany than to Holland, where I'm located.

I don't know, I will test it. for normal video (1080p) the stabilizer works very well. I see no reason why it would not work for 4K, as the stabilizer is optical (mechanical)