Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day welcome to this brand
new tutorial series for the panasonic lumix DMC fz1000. Now I've had this
camera for almost three years now and it's a camera I really enjoy shooting
with even though the mark 2 will be out in the UK at the beginning of April 2019
which has some new feature sets that probably the mark 1 should have had from
day one including the touch screen and bigger brighter EVF plus extra
functionality in the 4k video mode they've said 1000 the original versions
still a fantastic camera to use having a 1 inch sensor with 20 megapixels gives
you some great image quality especially if you're going to be shooting in
low-light now there are a couple of problems with this camera that I
probably outlined in other videos well I'm not going to dwell on those I just
couldn't say it's a great camera and if you've bought one then hopefully this
video tutorial series is going to help you get some great images from this
camera now today's video is all about shooting in the intelligent auto plus
mode some people refer to that as a point and shoot mode but believe me this
camera has a lot of features unreal I heard that you can actually use to
leverage some great pictures from it so don't consider it as a point-and-shoot
consider it as a creative tool it doesn't really matter how you're going
to get the images from the camera what they're going to be using the Holy Grail
to some people which is the manual exposure mode or you use in the
point-and-shoot I a fully auto mode you're still going to enjoy the types of
images you can get from this camera providing you understand some of the
features that this camera has so this video series is for ideal 8 new users to
the camera to get you up to speed with the features and functions of the camera
what the buttons do what the controls do when you would use a certain control why
you would use it and hopefully bring you through some of the photographic aspects
of shooting with the Panasonic Lumix bridge camera range
now the fully auto mode our eye a plus is the default mode that the camera has
when you take it out the box so Panasonic have chosen a good mode for
you to begin with now that I a plus mode or point and shoot mode does have some
hidden talents I that you can leverage from the camera for example you can
actually shoot in the raw mode now is the unprocess data from the sensor
stored as a file and then you process it in an external editor or you can
actually process it within the camera itself as it comes to camera GaN it
gives you two profiles to play with in the ia mode what is a color profile and
there's a black and white one but there's no way to fine-tune those
profiles to begin with so if you do shoot raw and processing camera you can
make new JPEGs from that raw file in whatever thought of style that you want
to create some more saturation less saturation less sharpness more sharpness
higher contrast low contrast you can tweak the highlights and the shadows
independently there's a lot of control you can put on processing your own
images from within camera but we're not going to talk about that today but I am
gonna be shooting in the JPEG which is a double bar find JPEG mode plus raw so I
can use those RAW files in a later tutorial to show you what we can do with
it now also in the intelligent auto plus mode the camera gives you access to
three extra controls one is what's called exposure value compensation which
is really a brightness control so the camera metering circuit has got it wrong
for example if you're shooting in snow the camera would tend to under expose
everything because it's trying to drive that snow to a neutral 18% gray
background so it would under expose the subject so by using the exposure
compensation and dialing to the right to put positive exposure value compensation
you can correct for that similarly if the camera is overexposed and you can
turn the exposure value compensation on the left to dark and down that image
another control is the color tint control and it's a way of modifying the
white balance if you want a slightly warmer or a slightly colder picture you
can do that with the color tint control and the third one which is the most
important one as far as I'm concerned if I'm shooting in this mode is the option
there to switch to a facility which allows me to select an aperture or
shutter speed depending on whether I'm shooting for depth of field or I want to
arrest a subject motion blur so for example if I'm shooting in a portrait
and I want to get shallower depth of field I can switch that mode and select
a wider aperture say F 2.8 and that gives me a shallower depth of field
if I were shooting sports or action like his train coming along the train track
if I wanted to stop that motion I need a faster shutter speed so by going into
this mode then selecting a small aperture which
automatically via faster shutter speed because of the way the exposure triangle
works and will get a faster shutter speed and the rest that subject motion
so all these things are available at your fingertips when you're shooting in
that point-and-shoot mode so you've got some great creativity in this camera to
begin with so what I want to do is set the camera up so I can film the back of
the camera and show you some of the features and benefits you use in this
mode what you can see on the screen what it's telling you what you could expect
when you're a shoot in certain scenes and how to correct them if there's a
problem so let me set the camera up and let's start shooting
well I've got the camera set up now so can actually film the back of the F said
1000 you can see the moment I'm using what's called the programmed auto mode
but I'm going to switch to the intelligent auto mode if I turn in the
top mode dial to the ia position so it s aligns with the white index mark on the
flash housing so I do that you'll see that we've changed from P to ia and the
camera will then show you the actual mode that it's actually selected you can
see that we've got a blue icon which then changes red and we've got this
symbol here which means we're in a landscape mode so it's actually looked
at the scene and determined that what we're shooting is a landscape but you'll
see this change to many different sites whether you're shooting for example a
baby or you're shooting food or you're shooting a portrait then this icon will
change as it changed the scene type other things you'll notice I here on the
screen is the fact that we've got no exposure value compensation and that's
the one that I use mostly when I'm shooting in the Foley auto mode along
the top of the screen you can see we got here we're in a standard profile flash
is disabled we've got a video record setting here of mp4 full HD the aspect
ratio that I'm shooting in prepare at the moment which is 16:9 and it's the
large format so that's the highest resolution that the camera will give me
that times out after that two minutes so we relay belit and now you can see I'm
shooting in raw plus JPEG and that's the option that I'd like you to use so you
can actually process these images later on the camera set up for AFS so that's
autofocus single it's in first detector mode and the battery indicator is
showing we've got two-thirds full on the right sincere side here we've got the
image count and that shows me the number of images that are left on the card or
if you're shooting video it would give you the time remaining on the card and
here it says intelligent eye self so the camera is controlling the ISO that's the
sensitivity to light now if I take a picture I press the shutter button
halfway down you can see some rectangles appear on the screen and those are the
areas that the camera considers to be in focus so sometimes when you're taking a
picture it might not select the correct area and I'm going to show you some
dodges too to make it select the correct area later in this video so the moment
the important thing to look at is the combination of the aperture and shutter
speed and you can see those on the bottom left hand side so the camera is
set up for an aperture FF to point eight so that's the widest aperture of the
camera has at this particular focal length and the shutter speed is one five
hundredths of a second if I wanted to know what the actual ISO would be for
this particular scene then I'd have to take the photograph it doesn't actually
show you on screen but if I take that picture you can see it's showing me that
we're using ISO one two five so the cameras made a good choice it's gone for
a low aperture to give me maximum light into the camera a fast shutter speed and
a very low ISO to get rid of any image noise so intelligently the cameras
working fine now you can change the way that this displays brought to you by
pressing the Display button so you can cycle through the options so you can
have it with minimalistic information for shooting so aperture and shutter
speed you can have the full information which shows you everything that you've
got set up so we've got the raw plus JPEG
we've got 16:9 large-format and aperture the 2.8 battery indicator the the
automatic white balance is set intelligent contrast and all the other
features that have been used by the camera in that modes if you want to
drill down to get more data this is a screen to see at the moment so back to
the original shooting screen which is the one with all that information you
can see we've got enough information for us to take that photograph now remember
I said we can actually change exposure value compensation so we can actually
change the way the cameras responding so if your felt this scene was a little bit
dark I can change the exposure value
conversation by pressing the top control dial so if we push this inwards you'll
notice that we now got control of that control because it changes into this
yellow color if I move the control to the right I'm adding exposure value
compensations you can see the scale is moving to the right the scene is getting
brighter and you can see on the exposure meter scale how it's been achieved so
it's keeping the aperture the same but it's changing the shutter speed if I
felt the scene was too bright then I can change the control over to the left hand
side and you can see that it's darkening the image down so that is exposure value
compensation
so that is the image without exposure value compensation and that is the image
with - one TV when you're in the middle position that is where the meter says
that's the correct exposure but as I said before sometimes the meter can't
get filled in some scene types well that's enabled so it's yellow if
you press it one more time it changes to the aperture and shutter speed
combination now it means you can change the aperture so if I move the control to
the right and notice I'm going to a small aperture of f8 which is the
smallest suffrage of the camera supports and that gives me that greatest depth of
field move it to the right and it will go to the minimum ature now that minimum
aperture will change dependence on the zoom length or the focal length of the
lens so if I was to just come out to that screen and i zoom all the way to
400 millimeters and then I go back into control you can see that my minimum
averages now it's f/4 so that's the limitation with this camera it's not a
constant aperture camper lens like the F said 300 or 330 we do lose one stop of
light from the F 2.8 to F for the longest focal length so bear that in
mind if you're taking telephoto pictures in low light you are losing that extra
stuff of light which is important
and the other one I mentioned was the color tint control so here by pressing
the white balance and moving that to the right you can see that I've got a scale
which goes between amber and cyan so it's changing it from a war machine to a
colder scene so now I cannot to use the black navigation button I can move it
all the way over to the left hand side and make the scene warmer we'll check
that picture or I could move it all the way over to the right hand side take
that picture and you can see it's a much colder so you can actually change the
way that this white balance control is working bring it back to the center
point which is a neutral component now we talked about setting up the camera
it's in the intelligent auto plus mode you can see that indicated on the screen
here so if you just use your left hand cursor key it brings you over to the
tabs over on the left hand side and it can come down and these are the settings
you can apply for intelligent auto plus so we've got the photo Styles well as I
said before we've only got a choice between standard which is color and
monochrome which is black and white but you can't change these individual
parameters as I said before the aspect ratio is how you would capture the image
so you've got the choice between 4 to 3 3 to 2 16 to 9 or a square aspect now if
you're shooting pictures that you want to include in HVT video then you use
this 16:9 aspect ratio and the 4 to 3 and 3 to 2 a photographic print sizes so
you choose one of these dependent on how big you want your images so a 6 by 4
would actually fit onto a 3 by 2 format so in my gun I've shown you how to
select the right aspect ratio for a different print size so I'm shooting 69
because I want to include these in my video for you go back the picture size
is how many pixels you're going to resolve in your image so at the moment
I'm using the highest resolution and that's the one I had expect you to use
as well so in this format large format the actual pixel size is 17 megapixels
and that's made up from 5 4 7 to bite through you're a child pixels go down to
the 8 megapixel so we're using the same sensor but we're actually down resolving
a little bit to give you more compressed picture and again again
down to 1920 by 1080 would be for your standard HD picture not 4k so that would
be the 4k setting and that would be your full resolution quality is the quality
of the image that captured by the camera and you can see that here I've got raw
and the fine JPEG so if I select that you've got fine JPEG which is the one we
recommend if you're only shooting in JPEG and let's compare a more sorry a
more compressed file for the next jpeg option raw + fine JPEG raw us more
compressed JPEG or raw on its own but if you shoot something in the entire now or
the plus mode shooting and raw Donna gives you the advantage you can change
exposure compensation and it doesn't give you the other benefits of the JPEG
processing that the cameras using in intelligent auto plus so I would suggest
you go for raw plus JPEG AFS and AFS is the way that the camera will capture the
image so what is autofocus single and the other is autofocus flexible
autofocus flexible means that the camera will change the focus point even if his
subject moves forward or backwards the burst rate is the rate at which the
camera will capture a series of images and he can choose between high medium
and low and we'll come back to burst mode shooting when we talk about these
semi-automatic modes Auto bracket allows you to take pictures and the camera will
make a / normal and under exposure picture if you're not quite certain of
the exposure the self timer mode you can change between 10 seconds or 2 seconds
and this ideal of using this on a tripod so you don't get any vibration from when
you're pressing the shutter button so normally I would leave that on 2 seconds
if I'm shooting outside on a tripod time lapse combination will cover in a later
video and know the shutter type we can change this between a minute mechanical
shutter and an electronic shutter or you can lock the camera decide on leaving it
in Auto default is in month M shutter it means that you can actually use this
with flash if you're in the a shutter mode you'll find that your flash is
disabled and you under why but if you leave it in manual
shutter it means that if you use it automatic flash the flash can actually
fire if it's needed to now we'll go through some other settings on the other
tabs when we're shooting video and when we're looking at some of the finer
features but for a moment so this video is not going to get overly long we're
going to keep it to just the record setup screen for the images
the four-way navigation now allows us to change our white balance in the color
tint mode it allows us to change the focus area so if we're having trouble
trying to select the focus point we can actually change the focus area
unfortunately can't change the size of that target as we can in other modes but
it does allow you to define where you want the camera to set focus if you
haven't trouble getting the camera to recognize the principal point of focus
in your image as I can see now the camera is selected that tree where I've
set the focus point so again you can use that to make the camera select the focus
point that you want rather than where it wants well that's it for this short
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