I like the FZ300 best, but if I wanted to do a lot of bird photography I'd choose the Sony. The Sony also has a simpler menu system. If you get the FZ300, and if you are not very familiar with it, its complexity may be frustrating. It is easy to press a wrong button and get lost. With either camera...

Lou, I will need your opinion one more time! Especially as you use cameras in the exact environment which I want to use mine for (wildlife photography and landscape photography in thick rainforests.) 1) FZ1000 used with extra battery: 530 USD 2) FZ300 new with extra battery: 494 USD 3) Sony hx400v n...

I would say the optical quality of the FZ300 is better. But for bird photography, since the Sony gives you twice the magnification of the FZ300, the Sony makes better pictures of such distant subjects. I think for macro with a Raynox lens, the Panasonic makes better pictures. I have not tried makin...

The FZ300 is better, in my opinion, than the FZ1000 for bird and wildlife photography. The lens on the FZ1000 is only a 400mm equivalent, and its max aperture fully zoomed out is f4. The FZ300 has a 600mm equivalent lens and its aperture is fixed at f2.8 even when zoomed out to the max. Though to a...

Much of my advice had assumed you would want to use it with microscope objectives. Since that is not the case, I would worry less about the electronic shutter. That should not be a deal-killer for your applications. More things that should weigh heavily for your applications are: 1. How efficient i...

The zoom ratio is often not the proper measure. Need to look at the actual focal lengths. Then you need to look at sensor size, if you are going to use a microscope objective, though you still haven't said what you want this for, so my recommendations may not be appropriate. Look also for electroni...

No no no. The Panasonic FZ300 is much better than the FZ1000. Check to make sure any camera you choose has RAW, or at least controllable jpg compression and noise reduction settings. Quality of the lens wide open is very important for our purposes, and there aren't many bridge cameras that pass tha...

Heya guys, I've spent many hours googling and reading reviews, guides and comparisons of the best superzoom/bridge camera's out there. From my research, the best are unfortunately out of my budget; Nikon Coolpix p900 and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ1000. Instead I have narrowed down to: Canon Powersho...