Jake Fantom

​I recently purchased an FZ1000 and was truly surprised by the noise when zooming or focusing. (I own two other Lumix cameras which make little or no noise.) I returned the camera, thinking it was defective, but posted a question regarding the noise to Amazon's forum for owners of the camera. What really surprised me was that more than half the responses from owners said there was little or no noise from their FZ1000s. There were also a number of replies from owners who said that they had noticed the noise but for whatever reason, chose to live with it. Bottom line, I am wondering if there are a number of defective or at least sub-standard FZ1000s out there that make more noise than others. I really liked the camera in most other respects, but the operational noise was a deal-breaker, even with an external mic.