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Setting up the GH4, Part 2, Custom Menu
Horizontal Waterfall, Kimberley Coast, Australia. GH4 + 14-140mm, helicopter. The Custom Menu hosts a long list of items which don't obviously belong in the Rec or Setup Menus.Cust.Set.Mem This is...
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Setting Up the GH4, Part 3 Rec Menu
Perth Western Australia. GH4, 14-140mm, light tripod, Shutter Delay.Note that many items from the Rec menu can usefully be assigned to the Q Menu or a Fn button for quick access without having to...
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Setting up the GH4, Q Menu and Fn buttons
GH4, 14-140mm The Menus of the GH4 and many other modern cameras are like a supermarket. You walk along the aisles and see a multitude of items. Some are of no interest to you but are desired by...
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Setting up the GH4, Part 4, Switching Setups
Picture Gardens, Broome, Western AustraliaOne of the advantages of a highly configurable camera like the GH4 is that it can be quickly transformed from a deliberative low light landscape recorder...
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Most Cameras are obsolete or soon will be
GH4 with 14-140mm lens July 2014I read today on Thom Hogan's dslrbodies website a report of Canon's latest quarterly results for camera sales. Interchangeable Lens Cameras (ILC) are down 19% year on...
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Panasonic GH4-vs-GH3, RAW ISO Image Quality
GH3 at ISO 12800 Crop GH4 at ISO 12800 Crop Executive summary--No differenceFor those who want thedetails, read on. Although to be candid there is not much more to say. I finally got my GH3 back from...
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Panasonic FZ1000 Introduction
Evening scene Sydney. FZ1000, tripod. I shot the same scene last year on GH3 with 35-100mm f2.8 lens mounted. On my assessment this is the best zoom lens for the M43 system. The FZ1000 image matches it...
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Panasonic FZ1000, Rise of the Fixed Zoom Camera
From the right: Baldafix, Pentax Spotmatic with 55mm f1.8 lens, Canon EOS 300 with 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lens, Panasonic GH4 with E28-180mm f3.5-5.6 lens, Panasonic FZ1000 with E25-400mm f2.8-4...
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Panasonic FZ1000 Evolution of the Fixed Zoom (VZ) Camera
Lunch at the Opera House. E33mm, 1/250 @ f5.6 ISO 125 Hand Held Art Gallery of New South Wales FZ1000, E25mm, 1/60 @ f4, ISO 1000, Hand Held Fixed zoom lens cameras have been around for quite some...
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Panasonic FZ1000 ISO Range Picture Quality
High ISO RAW Picture Quality Compared with Panasonic GH4 and Nikon 1 V2I am considering the feasibility of giving up my Interchangeable Lens Camera System and a bag of very nice zoom lenses, to be...
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Panasonic FZ1000 Lens Evaluation
FZ1000 at E400mm, hand held. 1/1000 sec f5, ISO 125. I included this photo to show that even at it's "worst" focal length the FZ1000 lens still does a very good job. The boats in the foreground are...
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Panasonic FZ1000, OIS Effectiveness
After a few thousand frames I am finding photos from the FZ1000 very agreeable in appearance with good presence on the screen or print. I do not feel I am giving up any significant picture quality to...
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Setting up the FZ1000 Part 1 Basics
The FZ1000 is very suitable for documentary style photography. It acquires focus quickly and accurately. It operates quickly and makes good pictures in a variety of settings including this underground...
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Setting up the FZ1000 Part 2, Fn buttons, Q Menu, Custom Modes
I am finding that pictures from the FZ1000 have a pleasing quality indoors or out. This is a quick shot made while walking through an underground shopping mall. I held the camera close in at chest...
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Setting up the FZ1000 Part 3 Setup and Rec Menus
FZ1000 Does B.O.H. (Bird On Head) I am finding this camera very versatile, delivering good pictures in wide variety of situations inside and outdoors. It focusses and operates quickly. The pictures...
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Setting up the FZ1000 Part 4 Custom Menu
I photographed a fun run today with the FZ1000. Of the 514 frames shot, I rate 88% as sharp and of these about 1/3 very (as in count-their-eyelashes) sharp, 10% a bit soft but OK for a small print or...
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Panasonic FZ1000 a Blast From the Future
FZ1000 held overhead, viewing on the articulated monitor Can the FZ1000 ReplaceAn Interchangeable Lens Camera with three zoom lenses or a superzoom Lens ?Really ? I have been using Interchangeable...
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Panasonic FZ1000 Panorama Guide
Not the easiest shot. There is considerable brightness range between inside and outside. Shutter speed 1/125, f2.8, ISO 800. Picture size 6964 x 2508 pixels. Most of the stitching is clean but an area...
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Panasonic FZ1000 For the Birds
GH4 with 100-300mmFZ1000Both these photos are heavily cropped from the original frame. The bird is a bit larger in the FZ1000 version as that camera was using E800mm while the GH4+100-300 was using...
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FZ1000 JPG i-Dynamic vs RAW
RAWJPG, I-Dynamic OffJPG, I-Dynamic On Although the FZ1000is an excellent RAW shooters camera there are many people who prefer to shoot JPG for convenience and there are subjects, such as sport/action...
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