hello I'm Graham Houghton and welcome to this video. Now this video comes about because of a
number of requests to do a tutorial on the Panasonic Lumix DMC fz80/82 bridge camera.
I guess the reason is that this camera appeals to quite a few people because of its price point and
because of this fantastic times 60 zoom but the request has come to produce a series of
videos showing you how to use this camera but not using any of the technical jargon that I
tend to use when I'm doing other tutorials. So in this series I'll try to keep away from
the technical aspects now if I do lapse into some of the technical details I'll
try to keep them as mineral as possible and try to explain them in more simplistic terms.
So this is the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ80 or FZ82 camera depending on the region you buy it in.
it's a x 60 Zoom so that means you can pull in some distant subjects with this telephoto
lens. Now that does come at a price and I'll be showing you why that happens and how to overcome
some of those limitations in this series of videos. So in today's video it's going to be
a quick introduction to the camera have a look at some of the controls have a look at some of
the menus look at the battery charging and the type of memory card that I suggest you use with
the camera in the second video we'll be going out shooting with a camera I'll be showing you
some of the shots you take in the fully automatic mode. So we've got the iA and the iA plus. the iA
plus is like an advanced mode of the point and shoot system and it gives you some flexibility
of being able to change some of the parameters that you might want to to get better pictures
than the camera would normally take under those situations. Then we'll progress to the program
auto mode which is again a semi-automatic mode but it takes away the camera's guessing as to
what type of scene type you're using so it gives you the opportunities of setting up some of the
parameters to get better pictures than you can in the fully automatic mode. Then we'll be looking
at the manual controls and then at video and how to get some great video with this camera not just
down to the fact that we haven't got an external microphone port on here so all the sound is coming
from the internal microphones or you can actually record the audio on a smartphone or something like
that and then sync it in post-production to the video track from the camera and I'll be
showing you how to do that in a later video. So let's have a look the bottom of the camera
contains the trapdoor which allows you to gain access to both the battery and the memory card
so the battery is the DMW BMB9 so it's a 7.4 volt battery designed for the camera
and it just plugs into the bottom of the camera push it home until you hear that click and that
locates with the contact within the camera. Now the memory card here is a secure digital and SD
card and the one I've got here is a class U3 so it allows me to use this camera with 4K video
now if you're not going to be shooting 4K video then you only need to get a U Class 1 card which
is much cheaper or it's the old class 10 rating so if you look on screen I'll show you the SD
card with the speed ratings and the type that you might want to purchase don't go over 64 megabytes
there is a risk that if that memory card fails you'll lose all the pictures on it so I tend to
stay with 64 or 32 gigabyte cards and again on screen you can see the type that I use with this
camera and again that just goes into the slot in the bottom of the camera normally with the logo
facing the front of the camera and then that just locks in place close and lock the battery door
On the top of the camera we've got numerous controls the one you'll be using most of
course is the power on off switch so that's a power on our switch slides
camera Powers up there's a self-check to make sure everything's fine and then you can carry on
shooting we've got controls on the top we've got What's called the mode dial and that allows us to
change the mode at which the camera is operating in to begin with they're going to be shooting and
the fully automatic mode and that is going to be the Ia position on the mode dial so you're just
align the Ia to the mark on the flash housing and that puts the camera in the fully automatic mode
we've got our Zoom lever here which allows us to zoom in or zoom out and that can be either a
continuous Zoom or we can set it up so it will go out in increments which are fixed amounts
within that Zoom lever we've got our shutter release button half press to focus fully pressed
to take the picture the zoom lever can also be used to quickly scroll through the menus
as you'll see when we look through some of the menu options we've got our video record button
which is normally a red dot but I have fixed a little plastic Jewel on there to give me a
more tactile feel for the video button when I'm shooting video got two function buttons on the top
one Mark function one and the other Mark function two and we'll go through the programmability of
those buttons on the back of the camera we've got a dial which is push to operate so we can
adjust the value that the camera is set to or we can change what it's set to by pushing that
button in we can change between say the shutter speed and the aperture and you'll see that later
in the video we've got our viewfinder on the back which is the electronic viewfinder Mark
LV I found this camera some cameras mark them EVS for electronic viewfinder now this is the
default evf as you get it plastic housing I like to fit this Nikon dk20 plastic frame which has got
a rubber surround we just glue that onto the back of the housing and it gives us a much softer feel
to the eye and precludes light from getting into that viewfinder when you're in bright sunlight
the LCD screen so you can actually use this as a touch screen you can use the
electronic viewfinder and the touch screening combination so while you're looking through
the viewfinder you can not just set the focus point on the LCD screen as we'll see
on the top of the camera we've got our hot shoe which allows us to use our flash guns if we're
using this with an external flash gun to enable the internal flash you just got a button on the
back of the camera press that and it releases The Flash to bring up the Cobra head Flash
the main button on the back here is the four-way navigation dial and in the middle of that is the
menu so we use this cursor control to enable us to move through the menu or we can use it in some
instances to set the position of the focus spot so we'll be seeing that as we go through the menus
got two other buttons here one is the button which allows us to change the automatic focus
and we've got another button here which will allow us to change the way that the automatic
focus and automatic exposure work with the camera two more buttons here on the bottom of the camera
one is the cue menu which is the bridge menu allows you to get quickly through some of the
menu setups and the other is the display button which allows us to change the way that this LCD
or the ebf are looking towards you Mainland at the front and of course is controlled by these Zoom
lever so we can step out to the full optical zoom which is time 60. we can then Zoom back
now I like to fit a lenser to the camera if you wear a peak cap in bright sunlight you know how
that Shades down the amount of light getting into your eyes it's the same with this lens
Hood it prevents stray light hitting your lens and degrading your photo so I'll show you how to
fit that and the type to use in a later video so that's it for the basic introduction hope
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one which is going to be setting up to shoot in the fully automatic mode let's go insane thanks
very much for watching please do take care and I hope to see you all very very soon goodbye for now