Panasonic HC-X1000 and Sony FDR AX-100

Is A Proper Camcorder The Better Solution?

Background
As a longtime journalist in the "imaging" world, it has always been important for me to keep in mind that my readership is highly varied. In the case of The Luminous Landscape we have about 1 million readers each month from more than 100 countries. Their (your) interests cover every aspect of image making imaginable, from still photography to video making, and from hardware to software, to techniques and locations.
I learned long ago that it is impossible to cover everything. There are simply too many new products and techniques appearing too often, and by trying to cover all of them, one ends up doing nothing well. So what I have done (and now Kevin does as well) is to focus on those products that personally interest us the most.
As regular readers know we have for the past 15 years published a great many videos about photography, imaging, locations and techniques. Some are part of a subscription service, while others are simply i...