Welcome to Laplanet Arts tech revisited,
This is a shorter video series where I revisit products that I have
Reviewed and tested in the past and see whether or not they have stood the test of time
Let's dive right in today's video
We're gonna be talking about the Panasonic Lumix G7 which has been by camera for the past year and a half
So if I have an opinion, it would definitely be formed by now in my first review
I loved the fact that it was featured rich could shoot 4k and
Was light and easy to use and had tons of features that a lot of cameras in this price range
Simply do not have so my opinion still stands that this is the best camera you can get at this price point
Even a year and a half later. Now the prices have dropped a bit. I bought this on sale for five hundred dollars now
It's pretty much always
$500 no matter where you look for it
I still recommend that you get it with a kit at that price point which is still pretty easy to find
Especially if that kit has extra batteries because I've learned that the batteries don't last the longest
Especially if you use it mostly for video now using it just for pictures it will last you a good long time
I use it in real estate photography now and could get through about a day and a half on one battery
Which is pretty good
but if you can pick up a few extra batteries
That's definitely needed
If you want to do videos now over the course of the time I have gotten three lenses with it
One of them is the Lauer seven point five millimeter lens
It is the smallest rectilinear lens you can get for any Micro Four Thirds camera
It's it's fantastic, but don't forget now Micro Four Thirds the crop factor
Makes it twice the millimeters that it actually was so it ever Jews out to be fifteen millimeters, which is still ultra wide
That's why I can film and this workspace and it not look super cramped
the other lens I got was the Helios 44 to
Which I have yet to do a review on so I'll get back to that and when I say the camera is filled with tons
Of features. I really mean that a lot of the function buttons are
reprogrammable to suit your needs so you can change them to change ISO or
Frame rates or whatever whatever makes it easier for you in your daily uses and functions of it
Which at this price point is I'm going to stress very very nice
I still think that the footage is fantastic out of this thing. The quality is excellent
I really have very little complaints. The only one complaint that is solid that I feel is lacking in
This camera is the auto focus. The auto focus is kind of not great
If you're filming the subjects that move around a lot. There's a lot of hunting it's just it's bad though
All that the one thing that I found that can help combat. This is if you change these settings in the camera to AI mode
which is typically just for
Photography the auto focus seems to be a little bit better and it will hunt for faces
So it'll do a better job at keeping track of things
I won't just be using like the lasers to find what's closest to it
It'll actually be using a little bit of technology to find faces
Which is better, if you're vlogging and move around a little bit, then it will keep better track of that
So that's my tip for you
to help
Remediate some of those issues. That's just when you do that hit the red record button instead of the shutter button in that mode
otherwise
You'll just take a picture so you can record videos that way one of the nicest features
About this camera is kind of a silly one
But it's the flip out screen the fact that you can face the screen towards yourself and then look at what you're filming
if it's you is
Extremely helpful. So I think that's that's a big one a lot of even the sony alpha cameras. Just don't do that and
It's it kind of stinks
so props to you Panasonic another nice thing about this camera, is that now that it's
Been out for a little while. Now. There's a lot of accessories that work well with it and
I've gotten quite a few of them
So if you're just starting out on YouTube or wanted to start
Videography or even photography. I still highly recommend this camera at this price if $500 is your limit. This is the camera to get you