Hello i'm Graham Houghton and welcome to today's video which is around some of the misconceptions
about the hdmi output of the panasonic lumix fz80 or 82 camera on quite a few forums and then quite
a few reviews it stated that the panasonic f780 or 82 camera can actually output a hdmi signal
that you can use for streaming or you can use it for lbs or you can use it for skype those sort of
things or you can use it using the panasonic lumix webcam app to use it as a webcam unfortunately
none of those statements are correct the panasonic lumix s8082 cannot output a live stream from the
hdmi port the hdmi port can only output during replay mode so those statements that you've seen
on the internet are incorrect neither can you use that micro usb port it just doesn't support the
functionality that um panasonic built for their later cameras to output over usb 3.
so what options do you have for streaming if you like with your sn8 or 82 camera
well you probably all familiar with the panasonic imaging app which i've
got running here on my ipad you can see that it's quite a full-featured article
now if you look at some of the features of that you can see that it's fully featured
if you are in say the shutter priority mode you can actually change the shutter speed so you
can actually change your shutter speed if you want to change to aperture priority road then
you need to go into the camera and change that directly you can't change the mode from the app
you can also change things like the white balance the iso exposure compensation you
can change the way this focuses you can use a touchscreen of your ipad or your iphone in fact
or any android device that's running this app so if i wanted to focus over there the camera
will attempt to focus on that point and if i wanted to pull focus back to one of the
characters in the foreground then you can do that of course you can use this to capture still images
and you can use it to start and stop recording video
it also gives you access to the quick menu so all the usual things are there for you to change
hit the return key to come back to the main menu and it also gives you the options to do
things like photo montages and snap movies it can geo tag your images it can transfer images
from your camera to your smartphone in terms of other devices if you have a microsoft windows 10
compatible device an xbox platform pc or indeed these surface pro devices then you can use an app
called lmaster which is available in the microsoft store so we're just looking at the microsoft
store this is on a windows 10 pc by the way and if you search for apps and you type lmaster
it brings up the l master app it's a free app um there are
in-app purchases but you really don't need to use them um it's free to use and you can
look at the reviews of it and the description in the microsoft store so it says supported
cameras are the gh4 gh3 and some of the gx's and g series but in fact it will
work with cameras like the f-set eight to the fz 300 330 1000 and 2500 so it will work with
all the bridge cameras and it will work with most of the mirrorless cameras as well that i have
so when you download that and install it if you first of all look at the interface
you'll find that you just have a blue screen which says connection what he's looking for now is to
find the hotspot that your camera creates when you put it into wi-fi mode so what you would do is to
select your camera
and get this case it's going to be the fz8082 i'm going to turn it on going to the usual wi-fi menu
wi-fi function new connection remote shooting and view because that's the only option that this
app has there's no functionality like the image app to transfer images or
things like that you'll go connect to wi-fi and you should then see your camera appear in the
wi-fi list so click that and it will connect to the fz82 if it's the first time you connect then
obviously you'll need to enter your passcode to get into the wi-fi but once you've installed it
you'll now see that in the background there we've got the f-set 8082 camera and you can
see the screen now it is only 640 by 480 so that's vga resolution that's the limit imposed
by the camera stream not by the app so it doesn't matter what app you had that would read the wi-fi
in fact is a vga signal so it is fairly limited in what it can do but as far as a monitor for
your camera if you're going to use this for remote shooting and view for either stills or video then
it's quite a capable device so let's see i've got that camera pointed i can take a snapshot picture
and i can start and stop video
you can change the aperture if you're in uh aperture priority mode or the manual mode so
i can ask gain setup aperture and again i'm in manual mode so i can set a shutter speed
and it's using i auto so you can use the iso values that you want the only thing i've found
it not to be able to control with the fz82 is the zoom so you can't set a zoom with this one you
come with the fz300 and you can with the fz1000 but i i found this not to work with the fz8082
you'll notice you've got a focus target which you can reposition over onto the target
and it will focus if i set the target down
further away you can see it's refocused on the furthest away point back up to this point
if you hit reset it will bring that focus point back to the center of the screen
you can see the current modes the camera's in manual uh autofocus single area the number of
spaces left on the memory card so it is a quite a useful device apart from the fact that the
resolution is so low so you could use this in obs and capture that window if you wanted
to put it in some presentation where screen size isn't important but you wanted to do this at 1920
by 10 a 1080 full hd you're not going to have so much uh in terms of resolution to do that
under the settings you can go to the settings for the camera that's been
installed so in this case it's the f782 click that and go to settings you can then
if you've got an anamorphic lens on there change the squeeze to give you that correct d squeeze
and there's an option here to remember the camera so it will remember the ssid and the password
that you set now there is a problem if you do that so if i remember this camera that's fine
but now if i close this app down and first of all i'll release the wi-fi connection
from the camera so i'm going to go into my menu wi-fi wi-fi function and terminate
so it's now terminated the connection but if i close this app down
and i reopen it you'll notice it comes up with a default screen and it can connect if
you run into that situation there is a fix for it and if you go into windows and into
settings and then if you scroll down and find apps and if you scroll down to find that particular app
l master go into advanced options
and then if you scroll down you can see we've got a reset facility and that just clears out
the cache for the settings in that particular app once it's done that you'll find you'll get a tick
appear here which means it's been reset you can close that and now you can reopen the app
and it will go back to the connection so it will actually be a new connection of course
remote shooting and view and then you can go to your input again connect to wi-fi
look for the f-set 80-82 so it's come up
so it's connected and now we've got this screen
so we can do our usual shooting if we close the app now and again i'll terminate the app
and now i can close the app and when i reopen it it will come back to the uh no connection but if
you save a profile in the app you'll find that it won't restart there are other features within the
l master app i forgot to have a look at it again i've just got full screen so i can see more of it
you can see that it is poor resolution it is now vga upscaled to full hd so
it is getting a little pixelated around the edges but nevertheless if we go to the menu you can see
that we've got full screen at the moment but you can have split screen so you can have two cameras
one on the upper section and one on the lower or one on the left one on the right or you can indeed
have four cameras to enable that mode you need to be connecting to your router as this device
will only see one hotspot but if you've got the router you can connect them to the router and have
the four cameras if you wanted so you could have um four cameras in this view but normally you'd
normally be using the one section you can see now i've connected to the fz330 and you notice we can
use the zoom it is unfortunately step zoom so it will go in the steps created by panasonic in the
wisdom for the app but at least you can control it in this app well with this at 8082 that hasn't
been implemented for some reason and again you can control where the focus point is by using the
on-screen target and it will attempt to refocus on that and again reset puts the focus point in
the middle and as before we're in the shutter priority mode so i can change the shutter speed
and it will automatically change the iso if you're in auto iso mode so you can see on screen
the current mode we're in that's the shutter priority mode our autofocus method single area
number of spaces left on the memory card using the current format battery status which is about
to run out the fact you can record video or you can record stills change your aperture change
your shutter speed change your iso if you're in a mode which will allow you to do that and you've
got the zoom facility here if you've got a camera which supports zoom so that's the l master app
so you can use this on your laptop if you've got a portable laptop of course you can check
it out in the field and use this to give you a monitor for your view if you've got a surface
pro then that's even better you can touch screen and control focus points and change settings etc
all by touch screen or if you've got a touch screen laptop again you've got that full feature
functionality so even though this is on a vga resolution it does give you a good monitor view of
your focus and framing etc something you can't do um with the image app it's such a small screen so
even if you've got a large tablet the screen is still quite small and again it's limited to vga
resolution over wi-fi whichever device you're using you are restrained to vga that's a camera
restraint and not the apps restraints well i hope you found that useful and cleared up some of the
myths around the fz8082 hdmi output you can't stream from it neither can you use it as a webcam
so if you have discovered a way of making the fz80 or 82 camera live stream or use it as a webcam
please comment below and i'm sure the community would really appreciate that so if you're a new
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