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Welcome to part two of my video on shooting with this the Panasonic FZ82. So we've all seen these
guys out while we're at the local nature reserve or out walking, huge 800 millimetre plus super
telephoto lenses that cost around 12 grand. I don't know about you folks but that's more than
that spent on my last car. I love my hobby don't get me wrong but to get some fantastic shots I
wouldn't want to have to sell a kidney, I'm quite happy to get something fairly reasonable as a
compromise and I think that's where this little FZ82 comes in. So we're gonna have a look at some
photographs I've taken with the FZ82 and we're gonna I'm going to talk about those images, just
to point out what I have done is I've actually listed the focal length of each image and the
equivalent length in full-frame terms so obviously the camera is described as a 20 to 1200 millimetre
lens the 20-1200 is the full frame equivalent. So what I've done is to calculate it I've used a
fantastic little website called mmCalc.com and you basically put in the sensor size of the camera,
the focal length that you took it out which is that we will not listed with the description
of the image and the f-stop and it calculates the actual focal length if it was taken on a
full frame camera. if you're no sure about how to get that information if your a Windows PC user,
open you photograph in Windows photographs, what you do is you right click and then select file
information that's and or panel to the left of your image and that will give you your f-stop
your ISO values your focal length and all sorts of information so you can use that information
on mmCalc.com, what you can do there is you'll be able to see how it compares with your photographs
and you'll see where they start a tail off (in image quality) that's not entirely unreasonable
after all must remember that this is not a miracle camera of any type it is a budget
bridge camera and the sensor is actually smaller than your fingernail. In my opinion
the effectiveness of the FZ82 as a wildlife camera is down to three things; available light,
distance from the subject and stability. As I'm guessing you aren't him you probably won't be
one to cart a tripod up the hillside nor to the beach with the family, with that in mind I would
suggest that you leave the full zoom range of up to 1200 millimetres to taking detailed shots of
close-up creatures or animals or whatever I would not use it to try and pull in something from a
great distance. I've got a couple of examples which demonstrate this perfectly the first one
was in a local nature reserve and took a picture of an Avocet, it was miles away I wasn't able to
get any closer to it so I couldn't shorten that distance I thought I'd take a few shots anyway
and see how it turned out you can see those one screen they're all horrible. setting two are a
couple of shots of some seals again obviously they were in the water I couldn't get any closer no
don't get me feet wet and despite trying to raise the shutter speed and even trying to raise the
ISO because the camera was saying I couldn't cope with the ISO trying to limit it to 400 is 500 and
what I was getting was that it was impossible to hand hold the camera and get a sharp shot.
Ideally the shot of the seals should have been taken at 1/1250th of a second unfortunately I
was busy trying to take a photograph of the seal and didn't concentrate on the actual settings
of the camera which is quite normal when you get excited about seeing an animal. Now in my opinion
the zoom is best for detail shots or close-ups of subjects like the shots here of this Golden Eagle
where you can see I've filled the frame with the subject. I would suggest that other than
close-ups trying them at the zoom to a 1000mm. So moving on the moving creatures the majority of the
shots I've shown you are of animals at rest but what about animals and motion. In this instance
I've mainly used the camera in shutter priority mode with the shutter setting set to burst mode
I've found that sometimes the FZ82 does lag a little bit when using shutter priority on burst
mode if you have a look at these two shots of the eagle as you can see I've panned with the
bird and take the shots and obviously you're squeezing the shutter button and obviously the
camera just is that little bit slow to actually fire off an image and that's meant that in that
second shot the bird is slightly out of the shot in this instance I would have probably been better
off using the cameras 4K photo mode, it takes at 30 frames a second although the image quality is
slightly reduced I'll discuss more of that later. This next shot was taken of a black-headed gull it
was just a single shot I hadn't set up to do a burst mode shot so it's not a close in shot by
any means but it was just more of an opportunist shot, I saw the bird coming and it just literally
got the camera and took the photograph. This next shot is of golden mullet in a feeding frenzy in an
outlet in Fuerteventura and it was quite difficult shot to kind of know when to take the photograph
because they were all literally all over the shop, all over the place and nothing yeah could
have probably been a better shot if I'd used a full-frame DSLR with several thousand pounds
worth of lenses but you know this is from a £250 camera I don't think that's bad at all. Where the
FZ82 - really does excel in those places you can go to where the animals are slightly let's put off
by people or they used to having you in their habitat or you know you're going to somewhere
like a nature park. I've found it quite difficult to actually shoot wild animals in the UK whereas
when I went on holiday to Fuerteventura the animals were quite used to people or maybe they
just left alone by people so they're not scared at all. Such bird species like the curlew which I
took a shot of, I mean I could get within sort of 20 feet of that animal and it wasn't bothered by
my presence which in the UK I think it would have flown off. Where the FZ82 - really does excel is
taking photographs of animals in zoos and nature parks. Most of us won't get the chance of during
our lifetime to probably say these animals in their native environments. Safaris are expensive
and this is likely to be the closest interaction were likely to get. But while you may expect going
to a zoo is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, in fact large animals really need large areas to
live in so the lens on the FZ82 really comes into its own being able to go up to that kind of 1000
millimetre range this were at the FZ82 really shines. As I said earlier I found the last 200
millimetres the focal range to be a little bit flawed, it lacks sharpness and you get problems
with the focus, it seems to flip around and not really focus on anything in particular and that
might be down to the fact that Panasonic cameras tend to use contrast as the means of latching onto
the focus point plus obviously you've got that increase in ISO because of the increasing aperture
so all of those factors combined seem to produce a kind of less than acceptable shot at that range.
I mentioned in the previous video and in this one about the 4k photo mode and I think it's
about time I went into a bit more depth about it rather than keep just mentioning. This is
how all basically it works when you see the 4k photo options you'll see that there are three
available we're only gonna cover the first one in this video, but that's 4k burst which basically
once you can grasp that one and you know how they all work. So once you have selected 4K burst the
next time you go to press the shutter button you'll see that the camera starts filming and
will keep filming until you press or release the shutter button. Once you've done that the camera
will then record your clip as it would with any other type of image or video. Now if you call it
back up on the rear screen, you'll be a play through the clip, you can then move forwards
or backwards through the frames and then select the frame you want and save that as a photograph,
it just writes it as a JPEG to memory card. The advantage of the 4k as we've previously said is
that you should be able to capture in exact moment something you can often miss when trying to take a
conventional photo. If your only intention is to shoot for small prints, 6"x4" or 7"x5" etc
or just a share on social media then you'll find that 4k mode works pretty well you'll be able to
at least guarantee that you haven't missed that perfect shot. So folks that pretty much concludes
my little video on the FZ82 and its use as a wildlife camera. It's great for trips to the zoo,
birds in the garden, capturing wildlife, it does have a few flaws and yes you probably
won't go on to win wildlife photographer of the year with this camera but then again it hasn't
cost you 12 grand. So the next video in the series will be about sports photography using
the FZ82 to some say it can't be done, we will see! Anyway thanks for watching don't forget to
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