MY REVIEW: Panasonic UX180 1" sensor, 4K Camcorder, 20x Zoom - Overview and Features Walkaround 

Great and pleasant review of the camcorder.It's clear and exhaustive . Thank you Michel

Thank very much for this review, very helpful with my purchasing decision

Great review thanks!

Hi! Awesome review! Panasonic Site says the Video signal for External output for this camera is 8 bit 4:2:2, I would like to know if this outputs UHD 4K 8 bit 4:2:2 in 60P. I would like to use an Atomos External Recorder like the Ninja Inferno.

Nice review, just got one.

Very thorough review! Would have been nice to see some footage from the camera, however.

Thank you.

I think you should point out that the one inch sensor in this camera is not one inch. Calling it one inch is a lie. It is smaller then 4/3 sensor in the DVX200. Even though the UX180 claims 20 to 1 zoom. The DVX200 can zoom just as far using the digital zoom magnifier.

Disappointing that the internal recording is 4:2:0 8-bit given that 9 years ago Canons XF series natively recorded at 4:2:2 8 bit for HD It would have been good to have a video on 'standards' and where cameras sit in the eyes of broadcasters. Hopefully you will cover the topic sometime. BUT a very informative video. Thanks.

Great video! I just have one question about the camera. Does it shoot in 1080i? I'm assuming it does, since you said you can use it in a broadcast studio environment.

Does this camera have picture profiles and any kind of flat image?

can you live stream 4k in SDI?

Did you find the viewfinder on the AG-UX180 large enough to use easily? My Sony FDR-AX53 consumer camera has an EVF, but it is so small that I find it unusable. I'm looking for a camera to replace it, but there aren't any camera stores around here anymore for me to look in person.

Why add the waveform function to a user button? It has a fixed added button function button 4!

Hi Anthony, I have watched both your UX180 and DVX200 reviews and I would be really interested in your thoughts having used both as I am currently trying to decide between the two. Now I pretty much know all the specs and some of the pros and cons but it is still a tough choice. As I see it the benefits of the DVX include the larger sensor, a closer match for my GH5, 4:2:2 10 bit output, vlog L and, with release of the EVA1 there are certainly a few good used ones coming onto the market. With the UX180 the 20X zoom and better wide end is probably more useful to me. I question whether I would ever record to an external recorder to get the higher spec output if I was shooting for broadcast, and of course I can always shoot that on the GH5. The cropping in 4K, especially at the wide end, is not so good plus the 180 is generally newer and similar price. So I welcome your thoughts, did you swap the DVX for the UX? Which do you prefer? I am coming from a PX270 which I'd like to upgrade to get a complete 4K workflow capability so I am very familiar with the style of these cameras. Thanks, Andy :-)

Hi IEBA.com , I enjoyed your video , tell me if you can connect this camera straight to the pc to stream , unfortunatley I have no sdi connector, or tc in/out connection, only basic windows 10 system . Is it possible to do this as I have search the internet for weeks and tried all sorts and have not succeeded. Can you help ? Many thanks John Davies

So where are those tests you mention at the end?

I looked at the UX90 and the 180 four years ago. I wanted a pro level video camera to do electric guitar pickup demos on RU-vid. I faced many challenges in looking for exactly what I wanted, which was that I am recording from two professional microphones on a speaker cabinet, that go into a Yamaha mixer, that I wanted to take that signal OUT to stereo cables into a video camera, where I could control that signal and record it on an internal SD card IN the video camera. Seems like a simple problem, right? NO. There are some great cameras that Panasonic and others made back then, but NONE of them, would take a stereo signal INTO the camera from the mixer and have pro control over the incoming signal in levels control or pro level audio input. You just couldn't do it, very frustrating and I tried a couple video cameras that just failed to deliver. I looked hard at the UX90 and it didn't really have good 4K video. the UX180 had everything I wanted. It has two XLR inputs, though awkwardly they are at two different and distant spots on the camera. But I got a Y cable and solved that problem. This camera will take a professional audio source and dump it onto one or TWO internal plugged in SD cards. Now, there are two things I HATE about this camera. One, is the power button. Its really awkward to turn on and shut off, never got used to it. Two, is the LCD screen. Its like from 1980, DIM. Even jacked up with its controls, its hard to read in any kind of bright light, but yeah, you can look thru the view finder and read it, but it still sucks. So, I am only using this in a room setting, sitting on a tripod, I'm not running around as a news photographer, so those annoyances are a big deal. BUT, what I did, was I bought a very affordable monitor and use the HDMI port, so now I can really SEE what the camera sees, with bright vivid colors that their LCD monitor really fails to deliver. This camera has so MANY controls and features, it never ceases to amaze me, and the video quality I get at 4K is just super great, here four years later. It has stood the test of time, it still has features I've not begin to exploit, but it does what I want to and will probably last me another 5 years I'm sure. If you just want a video camera to chase your dog around the yard, this isn't it. As a studio camera, for the money, I doubt there is anything yet that exceeds the many things it can do. In the real world, I'm not sure it could stand up to being a news photographer's needs here in 2021, but as a studio camera on a tripod, its probably still a winner for those uses. the fact that you can feed it professional audio thru XLR or stereo audio cables, you still cannot find a lower priced video cam that can do that.

Thanks for sharing this video,id like to know what its like when filming a Bird in the sky whats the focusing like,i film Mainly Common Buzzards in the sky with my Sony FDR-AX53 and hate when using Auto Focus it jumps in and out of Focus.

I guess is better than Sony ax100 ;-) in image quality

Okay, here is my problem with either reviewers or camera manufacturers: $2000 camera. $3000 camera. $4000 camera. Every review ends with some version of, "Who is this for? Run-n-Gun, ENG and Documentary filmmakers." The only conclusion I can arrive at is that no camera under $5000 is good enough for narrative filmmaking. And please, annoying guy that no one likes, please do not come on here with "It's not about the camera, it is about the story." I AGREE, but for some reason we are all trying to produce the best possible footage.