Hello i'm Graham Houghton and welcome to the final part of this video tutorial series where
i've been looking at the panasonic lumix fz80 or 82 camera for new users so the fz82 is a camera
which has been designed i guess for people that like the long telephoto zoom this camera has
an effective focal length of 1200 millimeters when it's fully zoomed so you can get some
fantastic teleshots there are some downside to this camera in as much as the fact that it's
a one two thirteen sensor which does mean that we are limited to the amount of depth of field
in as much as there is a tremendous amount of depth of field even when we're using this camera
at f 2.8 which is the widest aperture at the wide angle setting the depth of field is quite large
and equivalent to something like f11 on a full frame camera so trying to get those nice headshots
with lower backgrounds means you're going to have to use a mid telephoto setting something like 600
millimeters get as close to these subjects as you can probably two meters away but have your subject
well away from the background to enable you to get those below background as a camera would be
using something like a 5.6 aperture which gives you something like f 22 on a full frame camera so
you can see the comparisons there also the reasons these sensors tend to be quite noisy in low light
situations so if you're having to shoot in low light and raise the iso you'll find that your
images are plagued with noise so the golden rule is to try and keep your iso as low as possible
and wherever possible add additional lighting in the form of artificial light
or use flash to increase the exposure so in this final part of this video series i want
to look over at some of the issues that have been raised in the course of the five videos
and then look at some of the accessories you might want to add to your camera
to allow you to shoot better pictures well the first question has been regarding the lens hood
on this camera and i always recommend that you use a lenser don't use secondary filters such as
uv photos or skylight they will degrade your image quality in as much as either there are
pure optical glass and you get distortions in there or worst case scenario you're going to
get flare and ghosting from those filters so i don't use an external filter on here this lens
protects the the lens from external damage only if i'm going to be in a very dusty environment or
an environment with sea spray will i fit an external filter on there but this wide angle hood
is 55 millimeters which is the thread diameter of the lens but it flares out to 77 millimeters so i
use 77 millimeter filters on this camera uh in conjunction with other cameras i have but this
77 millimeter gives you that nice wide angle effect and doesn't fignet at the widest angle
setting so it's a nice hood it's was on amazon and i'll put links to that in the video description
now the other thing was the little jewel that i placed on the video record button normally
that's the red record button but it's difficult to find when you're trying to shoot video so i
just glued a little um jewel on there actually came self-adhesive so it's a bright diameter to
fit on that button and gives a nice tactile feel and the other one was of course the eye cap on the
back of this device normally the plastic is quite hard on your eyes and if you wear spectacles it's
even worse so this is a little rubber eye cup it's the nikon dk20 it's still available from amazon
you can either double side tape this to the lens frame or as i've done here i've used super glue
to stick that on as i really want it not to come off so that was in addition it does give
you a nice view of your viewfinder seals off your eye to the viewfinder you get a much better view
for your images so that was the other modification people have been asking for
so today i want to look at using filters the one you most likely to use if you're just shooting
stills is the circular polarizing filter and circular polarizing filter adds about one stop
of density to your shot so you can reduce your light a little bit in sunlight but the
main effect is to actually reduce reflections on foliage and water that sort of thing only works
if the light is 90 degrees to your camera so if you're trying to shoot behind the camera or a
bit in front of your camera you won't notice any effect but if the lights to 90 degrees to the side
you'll get maximum effect from the filter as you rotate it you'll see the reflections go from water
or from foliage and i'll demonstrate that a little later on the other thing we'll look at is shooting
in the 4k post processing mode so you can actually use that to select a point of focus if you haven't
got it quite right or you can use that to do image stacking so if you've got a close-up that
you want to get the full amount of depth of field you can use focus stacking in an external program
like helicon soft or photoshop to enable you to combine those photos into one which has got much
larger depth of field i'm also going to take a look at a feature in this camera called 4k live
cropping which gives you the pseudo effect of using the camera slider you'll find that in the
uh movie record setup menu you've got to be in the creative video mode so that's with
the mode dial set to the movie position you'll find you've got 4k live cropping there on page
105. and it's available to enable you to use a 20 second or 40 second um traverse of the
scene so it actually makes a 1080p from a 4k video and you define the start and start points
so i'll be showing you how you can use that now you've probably heard me mention many times in
this video series that the way to get in good images and video is to always use the lowest
iso with this camera this camera will go down to iso 80 without any extension so you can actually
use a very low iso it doesn't mean you've got to be using quite bright conditions or if you're in
dark conditions use the widest structure available and that means using the widest angle as possible
to enable you to get to 2.8 the more that you use telephoto settings on here you're going to
be raising the aperture due to the fact that this isn't a constant aperture lens so as you start to
extend your telephoto setting the light level is dropping and the camera has to either lower
the shutter speed to enable it to get the correct exposure or it has to raise the iso once it starts
to raise the iso beyond 200 you'll notice you get softer images and a lot more noise so it is really
really important to try and keep this camera down to iso 80. you can see many images in this series
where i've shot with 8 to iso in dark conditions such as forest etc sometimes you've got to use a
mechanical support for the device so a tripod or a monopod or rested on a tree or something like that
to give you the steadying effect so you can use longer shutter speeds obviously if there's any
subject motion you're going to get subject motion blur and that will preclude you from using those
lower shutter speeds so what i'm really saying is if you want the best quality images from this
camera always use the lowest iso you can under the situation that you find yourself having to work in
okay let's go outside i want to show you the circular polarizing filter and its effects
i'll show some plants around the garden and you can see how it can reduce the sheen on the
leaves of things and also if you're shooting skies in landscapes you can use this to
darken the sky to give you that dramatic effect especially if you've
got white clothes amongst it so let's go aside and i'll shoot with a camera
until the first thing we're going to look at is the use of the circular polarizing
filter so i fitted that to the 77 millimeter flared wide angle lens head of this camera and
we'll be showing you the effect of the circular polarizing filter on the highlights of the leaves
so if we start to film this in 1080p first of all
you can see the shine on the leaves and i'm going to turn the circular polarizing filter
until it cuts out that shine you can see that it's approaching that cut point now
and there's about the maximum cut the sun is exactly 90 degrees to the plant so we're going
to get maximum cut from that and i think you can see that's quite a dramatic effect
so there i think you can see the effect on the cloud there's no circular polarizing effect so the
actual sky is quite light if i turn the polarizer in now
i think you can see that the sky darkens and accentuates the clouds
we're now going to look at the 4k live cropping and you'll find that under the motion picture
record setup menu with the mode dial set to the creative video position so pressing menu set we
can set this for 20 seconds now it's going to ask us to define our starting position
and our starting size so we can actually position where you want the starting box to be and it's of
course a 1080p crop from a 4k video so the frame is going to be fixed format 16 9 so we'll step set
that as a starting point touch set now it's asking us to look for the end position so i'm going to
move the cursor over to the right hand side so the duct stays in frame and we'll just click
set to show the ending position and now when we press the shutter button we will start the
4k live cropping in operation and you can see that it starts and progresses across the image
where you've defined your start and end point so this will take 20 seconds to traverse from one
side of the frame to the other you can use 40 seconds if you wanted a longer traverse
so
so finally here are some shots taken with the fz80 around the garden just looking at some of
the plants and just give an idea of the quality you can expect if you use the camera properly
well that's it for this series covering the fz8082 camera i hope you found some usual tips along the
way if you have why not share the series with your friends and they'll get the benefit of this series
as well and don't forget if you've not already purchased my user guide for this camera it's
available from my store page on my photographic blog and it's available as a pdf download also
the book is available on amazon if you want to purchase the black and white or color version
i recommend you buy the color the black and white version sorry it's the cheapest way
to get the manual and you'll then get a free pdf if you email your amazon order number to me i'll
send you the pdf free of charge just want the pdf on its own you can get that from the store page
so thanks very much for watching i really appreciate all the comments you've made on
the series it does encourage me to make future videos which will be on another bridge camera
so until then thanks very much for now take care and see you all very very soon