LUMIX Camera Expert Advice

Lumix Expert Advice

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Understanding video record quality

If you are new to video you might find there are a lot of items to control and choose from in the Recording Quality menu, and it may not be entirely clear what they all mean.

Understanding video record quality

How to use LUMIX Teather

An additional version of the Lumix Tether application has been released that is designed to allow Lumix users with compatible cameras to use the Live View preview window for online streaming and video conferencing.

How to use LUMIX Teather

Exposure modes

There’s a lot of chat about exposure modes, and how switching to Manual will make you a real photographer, and how some modes are more worthy than others.

Exposure modes

Developing Compositional skills

We tend not to notice the things we see every day. They are there, and of course we are aware of them, but once they stop being new we stop paying them any attention.

Developing Compositional skills

Using focus bracketing

All current Lumix G models offer an in-camera focus stacking mode that is easy to use and which avoids the need for post-capture software when we want to extend or control our depth-of-field.

Using focus bracketing

Electronic vs mechanical shutter modes

All LUMIX G cameras offer a choice of mechanical and electronic shutter modes to give photographers an added degree of flexibility in the way they take their pictures.

Electronic vs mechanical shutter modes

Shooting with the 4K photo modes

The idea of the 4K Photo mode is that it gives access to super-fast frame rates that allow us to capture transient moments that would otherwise elude us were we shooting in normal stills mode.

Shooting with the 4K photo modes

In camera focus stacking

Broadly speaking, the extent of the depth-of-field in any image is a function of the aperture used, the focus distance, the focal length of the lens and the size of the camera’s sensor.

In camera focus stacking

Creating custom folders and file names

The Lumix folder and file name customisation facility is especially useful for trips away when you are visiting different places. Instead of coming back with a pile of images with meaningless names in numbered folders we can take control of where images go and what they are called.

Creating custom folders and file names

Using your LUMIX Camera touch features Part 1

It no longer surprises me when I come across Lumix G users who don’t realise the benefits of using the touch screen of their camera.

Using your LUMIX Camera touch features Part 1

Using your LUMIX Camera touch features Part 2

If you read part one of this article you will already appreciate that making the most of your Lumix camera’s touch features really make the most of its functions and handling in shooting mode.

Using your LUMIX Camera touch features Part 2