Andrew Reid

Although I found the CM1 mediocre as a 900 Euro smartphone compared to other high end smartphones like the OnePlus One and iPhone 6 Plus, I'll approach the CM1 purely as a compact camera that you can make calls on. This review has the focus on image quality and camera features. How does it perform? Read the full article here

  No Apple snobbery here at all.   If you look at a selection of high end Android phones (which by the way are half the price of the Panasonic) they're all outstanding as smartphones by comparison. Better screens, more responsive, better build quality, better music quality, much thinner and above all nicer to feel and to use.   There's some superb Android stuff out there... Samsung S5, OnePlus One, HTC One M8, all half the price and doubly better as smartphones than the CM1!   If you haven't tried the CM1 vs the other high end Android smartphones you're not best placed to comment.   My review would have been the same if you substitute the iPhone for a OnePlus One. It's not 'Apple snobbery' to make clear where one device is superior over another. It's called 'reviewing'.   It just so happens the iPhone 6 Plus is what I use so that's my frame of reference... yours may differ.

If you are getting crushed blacks, it could be a display calibration difference between my display and yours.   Even if I regrade it, it is gonna look wrong for someone.   I'll do a proper dynamic range test vs the GH4 and A7S.   I don't expect it to beat either of them but it beats the GH4 for colour and it beats the A7S for resolution with internal recording.

It's clear phone criticism goes right to people's hearts, and that's a sad reflection of how far we've stooped in this world today :)   I'm going to follow it up with a review just of the camera.   Think of it as a camera with a sim card :)

I think ffmpeg is what the other apps use anyway, just adds a GUI.

  All ISO 200, didn't need to go any higher for this shoot at F1.4 and had the ND on for all of it. It wasn't a dark situation, plenty of light.

  Yes it feels lovely. It's like a 1D C but with a modern codec, 1/6th of the file sizes, EVF, better ergonomics, flip-out screen, more adaptable lens mount, lighter and smaller, and only $10,000 cheaper.   Yet still people complain about the grading... because blacks happen to be black.  :D

I have the Heliopan vari-ND and it's a cut above the rest. Zeiss optics apparently.   I think this colour filter needs a closer look...

  Not recommended. Read the review for why!

Spec specs spec... what about usability? What about feel? What about music quality? This is everyday stuff guys. This phone doesn't get it right. Until you have had one in your hands you just won't understand.

In my first shoot with the NX1 I only had the rather cheap and cheerful kit zoom on the camera. That doesn't go any faster than F3.5. I've since been buying adapters and have found the Sigma ART lenses to be a perfect match for the Samsung NX1 in 4K. The video footage above was shot very quickly but it should give you an idea of just how superb the NX1's 4K video really is. Fantastic detail, colour and overall feel. Read the full article here

If you look at how the CM1 stacks up against other Android smartphones, it's also piss poor.

Worst review ever / thanks for the review... Are you two people under one account? :)

Hmm just a guess but you might be an Android fan!   Look I don't deny it can't be a cutting edge mobile OS for certain devices especially those from Samsung, but it doesn't have the same user experience as an iPhone.   That you can't even visualise my idea for Panasonic, tells me that you don't really mind the tacky lack of visual appeal on the Android platform either.   Have some imagination.   A powered case that happens to have a 20MP 1" camera in it, clips to the back of the phone same as the extra juice cases do. That way I get to keep iOS and I get a better camera... and it would still end up thinner than the CM1

  Don't agree.

Panasonic have just released the best smartphone available for sensor size and image quality. A limited retail launch is underway now in Germany and France with the UK to follow by Christmas. Against the backdrop of a run of hits from Panasonic like the GH4 and LX100, the CM1 unfortunately is the one that got away. An inadequate replacement for your existing high end smartphone, even if you value the camera side. Read the full article here

Yes 24p 4K is in the latest firmware update. ND filters - no internal, you'll have to get a vari-ND and screw it on.   Best ones are Heliopan and SLR Magic's new one. Both have hard stops.

Digital Bolex has great colour with the CCD in there.   One word to describe the colour of a CCD... it's analogue.

You do like to play devil's advocate sometimes Ebrahim don't you :)

It's 2.3x, definitely not 2.6x.

  The 120fps is really good, looks better than the GH4 at first glance. Need to shoot some more with it.   The 1080/60p isn't that great though. Shoot 4K.

  -10. It does improve dynamic range but I think it's at the expense of the image generally, so I'd not go past -5.

  You can lower contrast sure, but you can also just upload it at 1080p instead of 4K. Then Vimeo / YouTube don't need to scale it so harshly.

  Yeah, you're right.   Impressive colours.

The Panasonic FZ1000 is a bridge camera, but is it a bridge that actually leads anywhere? Read my FZ1000 review to find out... http://www.eoshd.com/2014/11/panasonic-fz1000-review-bargain-4k-super-zoom