Hello this is graham and I do hope everyone's
a day this video series I have called the f said to
200 missing manual if you've bought the F set 200 and looked at the basic user
guide you find that there's very little instruction for the advanced user all
that information is contained within the advanced user guide which is included
with the cd-rom which came with your camera there's a PDF format so you have
to look at it on screen or print out the whole three hundred and something pages
of the manual even if you do download and print the advanced user manual it
leaves a lot to be desired a lot of the instructions don't actually
make it clear what the various controls are for or what they do in this series
I'd like to take you from the basics of the camera understanding the various
components of the camera what they use for and when to use them through to some
advanced photographic techniques using the fz200 Ghana I assume no previous
knowledge of the F set series of cameras so if you already have migrated from the
F said 100 or the asset 150 to the 200 please bear with us as I'm trying to
bring onboard the new users so here it is you spent your five hundred and
something pounds in the UK or six hundred and something dollars in the
States and you've got yourself a super zoom camera super zoom because of the
nature of the lens of the camera from twenty four times optical zoom it gives
you the equivalent of something like a six hundred millimeter lens on the
equivalent of a 35-millimeter camera that's quite a magnification plus the
fact this lens is at F 2.8 this camera along with the twenty four times optical
zoom has what's called a constant aperture of f28 if you're new to
photography the F 2.8 is the size of the aperture of the lens the smaller the
number the larger the aperture so in this case F 2.8 is quite a large
aperture for this camera and the beauty of this camera is that the aperture
stays constant all the way down to 600 millimetres other Brits cameras will
actually go from something like 2.8 when it's wide
open 24 millimeters for example to something like F 5.9 so you're losing
about two and a half stops of exposure as the camera zooms in this camera
remains constant up 2.8 and that gives you the advantage that you can either
use a lower ISO which means that the images won't have as much noise or you
can use a faster shutter speed to get rid of camera shake so you've got an
immediate advantage with this camera that you can use the camera in low-light
or you can use it for a higher shutter speed to get rid of camera shake and
image blur that's more important if you're into sports photography or nature
photography where you need a wide aperture to capture the subject in dim
light but you also need a fast shutter speed to stop motion we've got the best
of both worlds with the F 2.8 lens let's look over some of the features of this
camera and I'll point out the most important ones first and then as we
develop a series I'll take you into the areas where we need to delve a little
deeper we've already seen the new lens and that's got a zoom facility on the
top of the camera so you can zoom all the way in to 24 times optical zoom or
zoom all the way back to time to one zoom and that gives you from 24
millimeters to just over 600 millimeters in the equivalent 35 millimeter camera
full frame terms the lens itself has a 52 millimeter thread on there so you can
attach additional filters if you want to use some creative photography filters
like polarizing filters to remove the shine off water and foliage you can use
neutral density filters if you want to use some very long time exposures and
you can use close-up lenses which will have a 52 millimetre thread around the
back of the camera is the new-and-improved
LCD screen and this is an articulated screen so it will pull out and you can
actually flip it forward
we can flip it on its spike and start away to the camera so you've got the
equivalents over camera that has a fixed screen the new screen has a higher
resolution so it's much easier to see and the menus are much easier to read
here at the top of the camera we've got the new electronic viewfinder introduced
with this camera the electronic viewfinder or EVF as it's often known
has got a higher pixel density than the previous cameras it's what's called a
field sequential viewfinder so first of all it displays the red image followed
by the green image followed by the blue image at a hundred frames per second and
the or merge those together to give one image
which is full color the hundred frames per second gives you a nice flicker free
display coupled with the fact that it's slightly large in the previous cameras
it is a pleasure to use especially in bright sunshine to your left-hand side
of the viewfinder is the diopter adjustment so if you want to use this
camera without your glasses you can use the die optic control wheel at the side
to focus the menu to sharpness and then everything you see beyond the menu will
actually be in focus as well also on the rear of the camera we have this push
button over on the left-hand side which switches the display from the LCD to the
electronic viewfinder and vice-versa so you can't have the camera just display
all the information through the electronic viewfinder or always on the
LCD screen on the rear of the camera we have the four-way navigation button and
in the center is the menu set and okay button
the primary function of the navigation button is to allow you to step through
menus or select options from the menu on the top right hand side we have another
control wheel which is click stopped so you can go left to right with it but
also you can use this as a decision tool in some menus when you press the dial
inwards so in words there is a little switch and
you'll hear a click there are three buttons on the back of the camera the
one at the bottom is the delete button if you want to delete photos when you're
looking at them in the preview mode or if you're in a menu this button returns
you back to the camera operating screen the other ones are on the right hand
side the display button and the display button allows you to change the way that
this display presents you information from the camera the other one is a
programmable button this button is actually function 3 and you can assign
various options to that function button to save you going back into the menu
each time you want to use that particular function well covered the
assignment of function buttons in a later video moving over to the lens
barrel we have a rocker switch which can be programmed to be the zoom or focus if
you're doing a lot of manual focus it's sometimes easier to program this button
to be the manual focus so you can rack the lens in and out to get your focus
point if you wanted it to be the zoom again you can set this in the menu to be
zoom operation rather than focus here on the lens burl is another slide switch
and it's the focus mode in the top position hits the autofocus and it's the
full auto focus range from 2 meters to infinity the center position is the
autofocus macro mode and that gives you from 1 meter to infinity and the bottom
position is the manual focus mode when you have the switch in the upper
position the camera can focus much quickly because it's only cycling from 2
meters to infinity rather than having to extend all the way out to 1 meter and
then back in again so if you want the camera to focus fairly quickly then set
the switch to the autofocus top position or if you want the full
focus range set it into the middle which is the autofocus macro mode to assist
focus there is a focus button on the side of the camera and if you're in
manual focus for example when you press this button the
we'll quickly do a automatic focus and then allow you to fine-tune that or if
you're in the automatic focus mode again a simple depress of this button will
force the camera to refocus on the lower left hand side of the camera are four
little holes and they are actually the speaker port so when you are playing
back your video from the camera you will hear the sound from this speaker port
moving on to the top of the camera we have the rocker switch which is the zoom
rocker switch in the center of that is the shutter release button and then we
have the main mode control dial and it's there you will set the operation mode of
the camera whether you want it to be fully automatic or one of the
semi-automatic modes or the fully manual mode you also get the opportunity to use
the scene type and the creative mode by using this top control dial the next
button is the burst mode button and it's this button which allows you to tell the
camera you want to make repeat exposures and then quickly you want those to
operate so you can go from 2 frames per second in autofocus mode to 60 frames
per second in an electronic shutter mode so you have a row variety of options to
be able to set for burst mode operation to the rear of that we have the function
one button and again the function one button can be set up in the menu to act
as a shortcut to one of your favorite operations on the top of the camera we
have the two microphone ports for stereo recording and we help the hot u-turn
able to use external flash units to the left of the top of the camera we have
another cool switch and this is a mechanical release switch which releases
they grip on the flash unit so once the flash has been D lunched the
flash pops up on the camera charges the flash circuit ready for you taking the
picture on the left hand side of the camera is a two and a half millimeter
socket which is the socket for connecting external microphones with a
two and a half millimeter plug on those Panasonic would have you use the MS
one microphone that they make but you can use a variety of other electric
condenser microphones if you use an adapter which takes you from two and a
half millimeter to the standard three-and-a-half millimeter that most
microphones have well be covering microphones and recording video in a
later program so that's the microphone and remote release the remote release is
ideal if you're using the camera on a tripod and you want to use the facility
to take pictures without having to keep setting the two second timer on the
camera on the other side of the camera we have another access access port and
this port gives us access to the HDMI out socket so you can play back your
videos and stills onto your television through the HDMI port the sockets
underneath the HDMI socket is the AV out and digital out so it gives you the AVO
signal to go to a composite monitor or it's the digital out for connection to
your PC via the USB cable underneath the camera we have the tripod mounting brush
and it's a standard quarter inch by 20 threads per inch it's the standard
tripod socket it allows you to mount this camera onto a tripod or use a hand
grip if you use the quarter-twenty facility the battery and memory card are
in the compartment to the right of that and the latch releases the battery and
it's the BLC 12 or 12v battery and above that you've got the slot for the memory
card which can be SDHC or SDXC dependent on what capacity you want to use the
SDHC cards are identified by their class rating you need at least a class four
card for this camera to record video if you're only interested in recording
still pictures then you can use plus two cards which are considerably cheaper
then the class 4 but with plus 4 you will get
good video without any hesitation so the card just latches into the camera and
the battery latches into its port like so the battery in this camera provides
enough power to last for about 540 shots or just over an hour and a half's worth
of video recording the lens head which is supplied with a camera is there to
provide shade for the lens when using it in bright sunshine and the Sun is
falling directly onto the lens the lens that provides that shade and also
physical protection to the lens it's assembled with the largest petal placed
on the camera at about 10 - on the clock face and then it clicks in place and on
the top of the lens hood is a small mark which tells you that's the 12 o'clock
position and then you know the lens hood is secure it's quite a tight fit and if
you want to remove it again you just got to rotate the lens hood
anti-clockwise to release it if you're using flash with the camera and you have
the lens are attached when the camera is in the wide-angle position the flash
will actually be shadowed by the petal of the lens hood so if you're using
flash wide aperture it's better to remove the lens hood when you're using
the the flash unit so that's a very quick introduction to this video series
and indeed to the fz200 camera in my next video we'll look at the menu system
how to access it and how to move around it and then we'll start to talk about
the intelligent auto mode to get you started taking pictures with the
intelligent auto facility so until the next video its grain saying thanks very
much for watching and I hope to see you in the next video and don't forget if
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