LumixFZ38

[kamanase]

good



[unclealister]

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.

[marivsme]

briliant quality! Thinking of getting one soon. thanxs for sharing

[llentoo]

this quality is excellent! these clips are also amazing :)

how long can this camera record in HD?

[indigobananajam]

@llentoo the camera can record HD Video just under 30 minutes at a time (apparently due to some weird regulation)

[guerrierodelgiaguaro]

Fantastico!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fitraaryadhana]

the hell?! read the specs then u comment dude....so u wouldnt be a laughing stock

[Kentiapalme]

does this camera have manual focus while filming? please answer!

[goku8384145]

@Kentiapalme yes it does

[boK41989]

Which program did you use to edit? I edit in sony vegas, but the image become blurry, and the format has to be .MOV, and i wanted to edit AVCHD, and after editing the quality be like the original..

[jantunes08]

@boK41989

Cyberlink PowerDirector 8

[vwlover94]

@jantunes08 Cyberlink is the best software, i have used my fz40 and i use cyber link powerdirector 6 and it does a nice job in terms of audio editing and movie quality!

[SuperDuperUberTuber]

This is ALL really beautiful.

Thanks for uploading.

What video editing software did you use ?

[jantunes08]

@SuperDuperUberTuber

Cyberlink PowerDirector 8

[0FiNKu0mt0]

I would suggest you to look closely at this product specifications...

[mikrobious]

This camera uses dolby digital stereo. Look up the specs.

[jeffhanson1]

Sound is definitely lacking highs. Sounds rather flat. Otherwise, nice video quality.

[slhimages]

Nice video! What software was used to edit? Like the transitions.

[jantunes08]

@slhimages

Cyberlink PowerDirector 8

[rymdskrotet]

In the bird-clip, I was almost sure I heard some flanger effects in the sound. Is this so, or was there a sound around sounding like flanger? Hm. It's important to me that the sound is good enough to buy the camera...

[vicooo01]

It's the stereo! LOL

[iceboks]

omg.... amazing. i think this might be the deciding factor of my purchase.

[platerplane]

please, it would be great uploading to rapidshare/megaupload/whatever a native from camera .mts videosample 4 see true quality.

Thanks in advance!!!!

[emon284]

hd vedio is awesome..but what's about the picture quality ????

[jdang]

any motor noise when u zoom?

[jdang]

dont answer, i should have just watched it sorry

[techboy6172]

no i dont think there is from other vids ive seen!

[bolizdor]

great quality

[joukek]

Congratulations. This is very impressive!! I'm quite ready to buy this camera!

[miguel88ms99]

how do you manual focus at 0:16?

[jantunes08]

I don't... The camera is using autofocus and because the water surface is moving it looses focus for a bit.

[edwinsrl]

I speak no Portuguese, sorry. I tried to freeze one single frame from your video, when the birds are drinking water, to check if it was possible to get a printable photo from it, some are nice but some are blurry. Which was the movie shutter speed you guys used for this sample, I mean, Panasonic Press release highlighted the fact you could bring Movie Shutter speed to 1/20,000 sec. Have you tried that setting to see how good a single frame of that video would be as a single photo? Obrigado.

[jantunes08]

Iam not an expert at Youtube videos but anyway what you have here as nothing to do with the original AVCHD file. There you can get, from the 1280x720 frame, a printable picture. For this film I just used the camera on program, and let it do the math, I guess this is the "testing" aproach to see what works. Working at 1/20000, what I've tried, as long as you have light you can get good pictures also. Iam still playing with the camera, hope to post soon some other stuff, also form a live concert.

[edwinsrl]

Thank you very much for your answer. I hope (and a lot of guys here at dpreview-Panasonic-Discussion-­Forum I suppose) you load more samples pretty soon. Your Photography Site is very good by the way. I really loved Lisboa and especially Sintra. Saudade.

[SOBRADEX]

Obrigado! :P

[tommes55]

...wow...it seems, Panasonic can handle the AVCHD-lite modus now..this video don`t have the "stuttering " of the TZ7. It looks very smooth...but why they have built in the "old" display with only 230k mp ?????

...will see the reviews in future....

[Trancerfly]

WOW, thanks for the upload of the samples!

Is there any chance for you to upload a video with really loud music, maybe in a club or at a concert? That is the week point of the FZ28. The sound quality is very bad :-(

I just googled and found following info on the video resolutions:

Movie:

HD: AVCHD Lite 1.280 x 720 / 50 p (CCD-Ausgabe: 25P), SH 17 Mb/s, H 13 Mb/s, L 9 Mb/s; Motion JPEG: 1.280 x 720, 30 B/s.

WVGA 848 x 480, VGA 640 x 480, QVGA 320 x 240 (30 B/s Motion JPEG)

[jantunes08]

will try to in a couple of days... been to busy trying some other stuff... but have a Cohen live concert, if that suits you. Not too loud but good enough for testing purposes.

[Trancerfly]

Was just a question ;-)

Would be great if you could upload a video of that concert.

Thanks :-)

[misubagsisu]

Awesome job man!

I was looking to buy for the older model FZ28 and surprisingly Panasonic arrive with new FZ38 which is clearly an improving for photos and movie beauty. I hardly wait to buy it.

Once again 5* from me for quickly posting

[DokkoStorm]

Nice sample video!

Great rapidest report of the world.

Btw, Could you ask something about this video?

Why was it uploaded by 960x720?

I hope it could be re-uploaded by 1280x720.

Thanks Man!!

[jantunes08]

dunno... really. I made it 1280x720 and that what I uploaded. I've it at the res in my computer... It comes straight out from PowerDirector...

[allteeth]

Thank you very much. Great samples. I was wondering what this new cam offered. I think it will be perfect for me. Was this all handheld? Great sound for a small camera like this.

[jantunes08]

all handheld or using whatever supoort you have... my back against walls, my knee, what I could find... but no tripod. Yes the sound is great, look at the concert video for some more sound...