Hello I'm Graham and I hope everyone's having a great day welcome to a new
series of tutorials for users to the panasonic lumix FZ2000 or 2,500
for sake of clarity I'm just going to refer to this as the FZ2000 now the F Z
2000 is the updated version of the FZ1000 which has been around for a
couple years now now the FZ2000 and speeches to the FZ1000 just
like the FZ300 added features to the FZ200 essentially it's the same
image quality in the 200 as 300 but the 300 adds that extra touch screen better
viewfinder better handling and of course it shoots 4k so the upgrade from the 200
to the 300 was a fantastic upgrade and the 300 is a fantastic camera if you
want a one to thirty inch sensor with that extra longer reach so the F set 300
is a great camera if you want that extra reach now the FZZ000 is the upgrade
to the 1000 and again it adds that touch screen a better OLED EVF and essentially
has more video capabilities than the existing episode 1000 it's almost the
scaled down version of Panasonic Lumix GH4 camera it's a subset of the video
capabilities of that camera so in this series we're going to be looking at how
to set this camera up to get good stills and how to get good video now in this
first video I want to look over the controls of the camera and give you some
ideas of the capabilities of the programmable features that you can
assign to this camera to give you the best possible shooting conditions for
whatever subject that you want to shoot so if you're a videographer that you may
want to set up the camera to give you videography settings or if you're a
still shooter again you might want to set this camera up to give you the best
possibility of getting shots with the stills mode so let's have a look over
the camera look at some of the programmable features and how we can set
this camera up in the next video we'll be looking at shooting in the ia mode
and how you can get some fantastic shots in both Stills and video even though
you've got a very limit it's subset of the operational features
of the camera in the second video we'll be looking at shooting in the program
auto mode and that opens up a lot more possibilities for both creative
photography and videography and in later videos we'll be looking at the
semi-automatic modes of shutter priority aperture priority and then the full
manual mode in both Stills and creative video mode so hopefully there's a lot to
get through and hopefully you'll learn something along the way so let's have a
look over the camera look at some of the buttons and features that you might not
already be accustomed to so this is the F sight mm camera and as you can see is
quite a large camera it's almost the size of an entry-level DSLR but you are
getting the functionality of a 24 to 480 millimeter effective focal length lens
within the camera body now the body itself contains the
one-inch sensor and the one each sensor was we know responsible for giving you
better low-light photography and videography as well as increased dynamic
range so the camera itself when you turn the camera on is fully extends the lens
and all the subsequent zoom is contained within the camera lens itself so the
camera extends to its full extent and if you do any subsequent zooms it's all
internal so with this set up but you're not going to be the photographer that
merges in with the crowd you are going to stand out if you are going to be
using this in public places because of this long extension to the lens it
doesn't mean that the camera internal focusing is nice and quiet and protected
from the elements to a certain degree it's by no means a weatherproof camera
as I found out with this particular one as I got water in the lens from a slight
accident that I had with this particular camera so be aware it's not just proof
and waterproof of the same as the F set 300 so let's have a quick look around
the camera and identify some of the component parts that you may not be
familiar with now the lens hood is a vented lentor that looks quite
professional looking bayonet cap to locate it the lens itself has a 68
millimeter thread and here I fitted a UV filter now
if you're going to spend this amount of money on this camera it's worth getting
a good quality UV filter if you want to protect your lens I would only use this
in a situation where there's dust or salt spray as I don't like fitting home
extra air to glass surfaces the lens has been designed to be the best optical
quality and no matter what glass you've put in front of it you are going to see
a slight amount of degradation either through image flare or ghosting so in
most circumstances it's better not to use a filter if you can get away with it
if you are worried about damage to the front element of the lens then by all
means put your own UV filter and possibly the best you can get to give
you the best chance of getting no image degradation so that is a UV filter 68
millimeters diameter for this particular camera the microphones for the camera
are on top of the flash housing not the best location for a pair of stereo mics
but within the camera itself the only placement I guess the designers could
fit it on the top of the camera we've got the drive dial which gives you the
settings for stills all the way through to stop motion animation and 4k so
that's the drive dial here we've got the motor which allows us to select between
the fully automatic ia modes and the manual video and manual stills mode to
control dials on this camera which in most cases are identically operated so
if you're in the aperture priority mode then both the front dial and the rear
dial will adjust the aperture if you're in the shutter priority mode the front
and rear dials both control the shutter speed if you're in the manual mode then
the front one you can sign to aperture and the real ones shutter or if you
prefer you can swap those around you can have this for the shutter and the rear
one for the aperture lots of programmable features with this camera
by default f4 gives you exposure compensation both for daylight and
your flash exposure compensation I brought up when you use the function for
button and the control is with the front dial on the front of camera we've got
our shutter release again a two-stage halfway down to focus fully depress to
take the photograph although there is a setting you can make the camera take the
exposure once you reach that halfway focus point zoom lever which is two
speeds or slightly rotation gives you the slow speed full rotation gives you
fast speed so we've got to speed both zoom to wide and zoom to tele video
record button which is normally the red button but I stuck a little jewel on
there so it gives me a little bit more profile so I can feel that when I'm
shooting video in the red button mode I can actually feel the surface of the
button rather than trying to find the indentation that the red button normally
has so that's a little jewel that I picked up in a crash-up and it's self
adhesive just sticks to the top of the button and if I wanted to sell the
camera which doesn't it just peel that but enough no problem at all power
enough button and a led to give you an indication off power on around the back
of the camera we have the new EVF for this camera which is a high resolution
OLED device on the side of housing we have the latch for the flash release and
it's again a Cobra style flash which it pops up like so if you are shooting
flash with this particular camera even though the flash extends up to give you
less of a chance of capturing redeye you will notice that you'll get some shading
in the wide-angle mode from the lens of itself you'll notice shading on the
bottom of your images so if you're shooting a clash with the camera remove
the lens hood and then shoot your flash photography put your lens are back at
the end of the time just light it in place normally there is a hot shoe cover
and but I find that inconvenient and I'm likely to lose it so I just put that
back into the box so if I do sell this camera I can just replace the hot shoe
cover when I sell the camera on the side of the EVF
is the diopter control and that allows you to set the diopter of the EVF so
you've got a sharp focus of the screen itself now it's better than set that up
on one of the menus rather than trying to look at an image so just bring up a
menu by pressing menu set and then look into the viewfinder adjust the diopter
until you get a sharp image in the display now there is an optical switch
in the EVF so that when you bring this up to your eye it switches off the LCD
monitor and switch is on the EVF there's also a functionality that you can
actually start it to focus when you bring in the doctor I like to try and
get some quicker focus response the actual screen itself is still the
articulated touch and turn and can fold it back to the camera for protection
it's now a touchscreen so you've got the facilities for touch to focus so you can
actually do focus pose for this you can touch different points of the screen if
you're in the video mode and it will actually follow that focus you've also
got facilities to then change your menu options change settings in the camera
it's I like touch screens a lot of people don't because of the mess from
grease on fingers but if you use a stylus you don't get those problems also
with this particular screen you can use the EVF and you can actually use the
screen to set focus so you can actually use your thumb lights up to your eye
to set the focus point where you need it to be so it's a very convenient way of
getting nice focus to make sure you're focusing on the subject you want top of
the camera we've got the multi way switch for the focus modes between AFS
which is the autofocus single and AFF you set that operation in the menu so
you can either love AFS which is single shots or AFF which is the autofocus
flexible mode no the AFF mode is there so that when you press the shutter
button to the halfway point the camera will continuing to focus if you subject
positional changes were in the AFS mode it's a single shot once you press the
button and get the halfway point the camera will not focus at
point unlock the exposure we also have the AFC the autofocus continuous mode so
when you're focusing the camera will continuously focus until you press the
shutter button and the bottom option is the manual focus here in the middle
of that is a button which you can program for AF or a lock or we can lock
both focus and exposure or we can individual set focus or exposure with
this button so you can emulate back button focus if you wanted to with the
camera again a series of programmable features on the back of the camera and
we can have the replay button menu set plus the four-way navigation key which
we'll cover a little bit later we've also got a programmable button at the
bottom of the screen function six which is the normal button we would use for
return and the trashcan delete images again we've got a switch over on the
right hand side here which is the EVF monitor switch so you can actually
manually switch between the LCD and the OLED display now on the side of this
lens barrel we've got three programmable switches and by default function one and
function two are the slow speed zoom function one is zoom in and function to
is zoom out and again these can be programmed for one of three speeds low
medium or high and again you can set the operation of these so you've got a soft
start zoom and a soft finish if you wanted to or you can push the whole to
make it zoom with a soft finish or a soft start so lots of nice features here
for programming your video zooms if you want to do that within your video
function 3 allows you to reassign the front and rear dowels temporarily so by
default these will be dependent on your mode control so if you're in aperture
priority these will control the aperture but you
can change the way that this button works when you press this normally it
will bring up the operation between ISO and white
but if you didn't want that preference you can change the programmability of
this button to give you a number of features maybe with flush control or
photo style or switching to 4k video you can gain program about 12 features
behind the function free button again on the lens bar we are now a switch for the
inclusion of internal ND filters quarter 16th or 64th reduction in light to the
sensor or you can have it in auto now when we talk about video and stills
there are some caveats with this switch and in some modes the auto mode doesn't
actually include the ND filter set so in some situations you might think that
you're going to be using the ND filters in an auto situation but in the auto
mode the actual filter set don't work so we will show you how to overcome that in
a later video bottom of the camera of course we have the tripod mounting brush
and it is on axis with the lens which is great usual butter compartment for the
BLC 12v battery so it's the similar battery to most of the panasonic bridge
cameras the 300 and the 200 all use that PLC 12v battery nice to see that we've
got a separate compartment for the SD card and again it's SD SDHC or SDXC
compatible cards if you're shooting stills then you can use SD the choice of
card for videography will depend on the video bitrate they're using and the
format so for something like porqué you need to be using gay uh3 rated card if
you're just going to be shooting 1080p and AVC HD you can get away with a class
for SDHC card if you're on shooting AVC HD but we'll talk about those cards in
more detail when we talk about shooting video
top of the camera here we have the focus assist light and if you use in the self
timer mode this will give you an indication of the countdown to rings on
the lens barrel one controls the zoom and the other controls the focus
they are fly by Y devices they don't physically connect to the zoom mechanism
or the focus mechanism of the lens the zoom ring can actually be changed from
being a fine control to a step mode so you can actually step out from preset
values say twenty four thirty five sixty seventy five dependent on how you want
to set that up so we can either be step zoom or fine control on the left hand
side of the camera we have the input for your microphone standard 3.5 millimeter
jack stereo input now behind this door we've got the micro HDMI port and the
USB socket so you can connect this to an external recorder or a monitor to view
your output as a clean HDMI output so you can actually record from this device
behind this port we've got a headphone socket so it can actually monitor our
audio as we go along on the other side of camera we've got another port behind
this rubber flap which is the 2.5 millimeter remote control socket to be
using a wired remote release camera supports Wi-Fi control with the
Panasonic image app or you can use the wide release if you want to use this for
remote control of both Stills and video
so that covers the feature sets I love the camera itself and we'll go through
each of those buttons in turn when we start to look at shooting with the
camera and be able to show you how to program those buttons now if you're
shooting 4k with this camera you will notice that
you get a reduction in field of view from your 1080p mode you lose something
like 12 millimeters effective focal length so goes from 24 up to about 30
six as the minimum in 4k video in a later video I'll show you how you can
get some of that bike by using a point four three wide-angle converter for this
particular lens slides and you can actually get back to something like
twenty eight millimeters to recover some of the field of view you lose by
shooting in 4k mode but more of that when we talk about shooting video with
this particular camera especially if you're going to shoot in the 4k mode so
those are some of the features of the camera some of the buttons that are
programmable and allow you to set the camera up so it's useful for your own
particular type of photography or videography well that's it for the first
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