Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day welcome to this
introduction to a new soon I proposed to run here on YouTube for
users of the Panasonic Lumix I've said 80 or 82 as it's known in North America
bridge camera now this is not normally a camera that's on my horizon but about so
many requests for how to use or videos on the F cell 82 that I thought I'd
better purchase one Hubble could review it and then try to run some tutorials if
I thought it was worth it for you YouTube viewers now it is a camera which
is built around some compromises remember this camera as an equivalent
focal length in 35 millimeter full-frame terms are from 20 up to 2,400
millimeters that's how we get the x 60 zoom the actual lens will give you some
compromises in terms of its optical design to make sure that we get sharp
focus at the wide angle and also at the telephoto setting those compromises also
coming the aperture range that the camera will support
unlike the offset 300 or 330 which restricts the zoom to 600 millimeters
the optical design of that lens is such that we can keep a constant aperture of
F 2 point 8 so even if we're using 600 millimeters effective focal length we
still got F 2.8 which is a nice bright aperture allows us to shoot nice shallow
depth-of-field pictures and in lower light conditions now here with the
acetate so when we use in the extreme telephoto lens the aperture drops to F
5.9 so we're almost losing three stops of light by using that extended
telephoto setting that means that we either have to use the slow shutter
speed to get the right exposure or use a higher ISO and both of those give us
image problems slow shutter speed might give us camera shake or at least subject
motion blur and high ISO might give us a midnight remember this is a one to
thirty sensor to enable us to get to these long magnifications so again that
has problems with noise the lowest ISO this camera supports in its native mode
is is all 80 and from my test I recommend you want to use this camera
between ISO 80 and ISO 400 400 would be my absolute maximum
even in bright sunlight because if want large enlargements all you want to
crop it on your enlargement you'll find that the image is far too noisy to get
give a decent image now the camera just support raw if you want to try and
process those files a little bit better to try and smooth out some of that noise
and you can use some of the tricks in the photo styles if you don't want to
shoot JPEG have reducing the sharpening and the noise reduction and then doing
your own post-processing but I'll cover all that later in this video series so
what are my goals by producing these video series for you well first of all I
want you to be able to get good pictures from the FCAT you are needing to
understand the compromises that have ins have been made with the camera where you
can use the camera what settings to use and what sort of results to expect and
I'm going to go through each of those individually as we approach them in each
of the video topics now in the first video of the series I'll be looking at
the intelligent auto and intelligent auto plus modes those are the most that
most people will be most comfortable using when they first buy this camera if
you turn the camera to the ia position and then select ia or ia plus the camera
takes full control of picture taking for you and in 90% of the cases that image
is pretty good and you can use it in social media you can make small
enlargements from it if you want to make larger enlargements then you've got to
take control of the camera and tame the way that the camera uses ISO in some
instances so we'll be going through that when we look at the semi-automatic modes
that's a programmed Auto and the aperture and shutter priority mode now
the strength of this camera I believe is in the 4k video mode you can shoot 4k
video mode even if you want to put it on at any to be timeline you get four times
the resolution you can either crop into the image or your just notice and
enhance the resolution for the fact that we're copying down from 4k to 1080p
obviously you haven't got a microphone input with this camera so you need to be
using the internal mics or using an external audio recorder to capture
better audio and we'll be looking at that when we look at shooting video with
this particular camera we'll also look at the post focus mode in the 4k option
and that allows the camera to cycle through the 49 area focus take a picture
each one of those and then we can actually cycle through and choose the
point of focus we want for that particular shot we can also use them
those images in some circumstances to create a focus stacked image to give us
deeper depth of field that we can normally get with the camera also we're
looking at time-lapse and stop-motion again they're features that are
available with this camera it doesn't have a remote input so the only way you
can control the camera is by using the Panasonic image up and I'll show you how
to set that up with the camera I know you can use it to start and stop
recording video set the parameters or use it as a remote shutter if you're
just using in the stills mode now most people are going to buy this because of
the extreme long zoom Nick and I've just brought out one with the x 125 times
zoom which to me is crazy even things like heat haze or atmospheric pollution
on a day like today when the sun's been out for a while trying to take distant
pictures you will notice that you'll get total image segregation because of heat
haze smog on the atmosphere you'll get heat rising which causes that
shimmer effect and that just destroys the image a normal distances up to a
hundred yards or so 100 meters you can get good pictures but when you're
shooting for something like a mile or two mile which I've got an image of here
not just behind me is Remington Moore's and the mass for the television
transmitter and radio transmitters are about two miles away you can get nice
close-up pictures using the 2400 millimeters but we're suffering today
from heat haze which is degrading the picture so you're not going to get it at
its best advantage in cold weather obviously you want to get no heat
disturbance you are going to get better images with the camera now a lot of
people telling me they're buying these because they're going on so far
they want those long focal lengths to enable them to capture great close-ups
of wild cats excerpt while they're on safari by itself poses some problems
mostly safaris tend to go off early in the morning and just capture images just
after light and that means you're working in low-light conditions and this
is not a camera for shooting in low-light if you can capture the images
during normal bright sunlight you're going to be over the moon with the
images you can get provide you're not shooting over great distances and heat
haze is going to ruin your images you'll get some really good close-ups with this
camera so that's it for the introduction in part one we are going to look at the
intelligent auto and intelligent auto plus modes how to set those up Oh to get
the benefits of them and what you can do in terms of post-processing those images
so until that first video if you're a new viewer to the channel please do
click the subscribe button and the Bell notification icon and you'll get
notification when I upload all the videos in this series also check out my
photographic blog you'll find a link to that in the video description below and
in the review section you'll find my personal review of the FCAT 82 what I
think about it how to set it up and where I think its strengths and
weaknesses like you can evaluate that for yourself
so until part 1 thanks again for watching and as usual please do take
care and I hope to see you all in the next one good bye for now