"Panasonic G series" Owners Thread

woof woof said:
Why not indeed :D

I have a Panasonic 45-150mm. I usually keep that or my 100-400mm on my GX80 and a 17mm f1.8 on my GX9.

I took my GX80 plus 45-150mm out today.

I think these lenses (40/45-150mm) make nice longer lenses for general use, people, landscape, wildlife. I hope you find a use for and enjoy yours :D

PS.
I like these pictures but I thought I'd crop the swan one a bit.
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Love the squirrel pics. I struggle to get the kind of clarity and brightness you have here. Maybe it’s in the edit? Did your shoot raw? I shoot raw only at the moment because it seems to save battery as compared to getting the camera to process the jpg.
 
They're raw with very little processing. The clarity and brightness is just down to luck as the quality of light on the day was good and also enabled the shutter speed to be adequate whilst keeping the ISO acceptable. The last time I went to that park the light was flat and it poured down.
 
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Pin said:
Love the squirrel pics. I struggle to get the kind of clarity and brightness you have here. Maybe it’s in the edit? Did your shoot raw? I shoot raw only at the moment because it seems to save battery as compared to getting the camera to process the jpg.
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Hi Pin ... some say RAW files, being bigger, take longer to write to the memory card than JPEGs. People say all sorts of things regarding battery life. Best thing is to get 1 or 2 spares. Personally, I'd shoot squirrels in jpeg medium burst mode. Crop, sharpen and tweak levels/curves in post.
 
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d00d said:
Hi Pin ... some say RAW files, being bigger, take longer to write to the memory card than JPEGs. People say all sorts of things regarding battery life. Best thing is to get 1 or 2 spares. Personally, I'd shoot squirrels in jpeg medium burst mode. Crop, sharpen and tweak levels/curves in post.
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Hi,
Thanks for the response. Maybe it's not true across the board, but I'm getting maybe 50% more shots out of a single battery with RAW only shooting, compared to RAW+JPG. I tend not to shoot jpg only because you can recover more detail in RAW, much needed until my photography improves, hopefully to the point where I'm close to where I want the shot straight out of the camera.
 
I don't know about the whole raw v jpeg and battery life issue but it must be a close run thing? Raws may be bigger but jpegs surely need a bit more processing and then saving? I've honestly never given it a thought before.

My Sony A7 seems to flatten the battery quicker than my GX9/GX80 so I usually take a spare but I never bother with my Panasonic cameras but I'm not a machine gunner. If I was or was taking a Panasonic camera on holiday I might take a spare or just stick to charging the battery every night.

I use raws in the hope and believe that the processing is more flexible for white balance, exposure, lifting or reducing this and that and the like.
 
woof woof said:
I don't know about the whole raw v jpeg and battery life issue but it must be a close run thing? Raws may be bigger but jpegs surely need a bit more processing and then saving? I've honestly never given it a thought before.

My Sony A7 seems to flatten the battery quicker than my GX9/GX80 so I usually take a spare but I never bother with my Panasonic cameras but I'm not a machine gunner. If I was or was taking a Panasonic camera on holiday I might take a spare or just stick to charging the battery every night.

I use raws in the hope and believe that the processing is more flexible for white balance, exposure, lifting or reducing this and that and the like.
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To be honest I have never compared RAW vs JPG directly, only RAW vs RAW+JPG, so essentially with the latter, giving the camera 2 workloads and 2 writes. I guess it makes sense.
Quick additional question. On your Panasonics, do you ever use Electric Shutter? I'm not really seeing the use.
 
Clicks have got to be the only way to gauge battery life, but there are so many other variables ... how often do you turn camera on/off, "chimping", (yes I'm guilty of it). It's not only clicks that flatten your battery.
 
CSB said:
Lots of lens firmware updates have also been released, to make use of the new options available.
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I saw one camera had of all things "Train" recognition, thought it was an April Fool type thing at first.
Getting a bit overblown now with face, eyes with a choice of one or two (handy when photographing Cyclops) body and even animal faces or was it faeces?
 
Pin said:
To be honest I have never compared RAW vs JPG directly, only RAW vs RAW+JPG, so essentially with the latter, giving the camera 2 workloads and 2 writes. I guess it makes sense.
Quick additional question. On your Panasonics, do you ever use Electric Shutter? I'm not really seeing the use.
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Yes.

Firstly when using shutter speeds faster than 1/4,000 such as when using wide apertures in good light. The mechanical shutter is limited to 1/4,000 on my cameras so I set the camera to automatically select mechanical or electronic shutter and if faster than 1/4,000 is needed it automatically switches to the electronic shutter. The other time I use it is when I want to shoot silently but this can cause banding under flickering artificial lights.
 
Hmm.
Just did latest lens update on G80 with kit 12-60 to version 1.3.
Focus is noticeably snappier.
When using BBF though it now requires one push to "prime" and one to focus. I think I like it.
Anybody else found this?
( I'm assuming it's the update, never noticed it before)

Update. The faster focus is quite dramatic. Happy bunny.
 
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Just a thought ...

I've got a GX80 with (not the normal) 12-60 kit lens.

Lenses aren't updated are they? (or is that a stupid question).
 
woof woof said:
Yes.

Firstly when using shutter speeds faster than 1/4,000 such as when using wide apertures in good light. The mechanical shutter is limited to 1/4,000 on my cameras so I set the camera to automatically select mechanical or electronic shutter and if faster than 1/4,000 is needed it automatically switches to the electronic shutter. The other time I use it is when I want to shoot silently but this can cause banding under flickering artificial lights.
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I've never used auto shutter mode, I think I'll try that. I tend to use electronic shutter, switching to manual when speed goes down to 1 sec or slower.
 
d00d said:
Just a thought ...

I've got a GX80 with (not the normal) 12-60 kit lens.

Lenses aren't updated are they? (or is that a stupid question).
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I don't know about Panasonic but I'm sure some are.
 
d00d said:
I've never used auto shutter mode, I think I'll try that. I tend to use electronic shutter, switching to manual when speed goes down to 1 sec or slower.
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The "only" issues with the electronic shutter, AFAIK, are the possibility of banding under some flickering artificial lights which does affect me now and again and can be picture ruining and rolling shutter effect which I can't say I've ever noticed. I think some people also claim some bokeh effects but I've never seen anything to convince me that it's a problem for me. I suppose one benefit apart from enabling faster than 1/4,000 shutter speeds is that the electronic shutter doesn't add to the wear and tear on the shutter mechanism. These days I just leave mine on auto unless I want to shoot silently.
 
d00d said:
Just a thought ...

I've got a GX80 with (not the normal) 12-60 kit lens.

Lenses aren't updated are they? (or is that a stupid question).
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There are firmware updates for many Lumix lenses. The one for mine only came out in last couple of weeks. From ver. 1.2 to 1.3.
 
IIRC, another thing to consider with electronic shutter is that the raw files are 10 bit compared to 12 bit when using mechanical shutter. Saying that, I use electronic shutter when shooting time lapse to save on wear and not really noticed much of a difference.
 
CSB said:
IIRC, another thing to consider with electronic shutter is that the raw files are 10 bit compared to 12 bit when using mechanical shutter. Saying that, I use electronic shutter when shooting time lapse to save on wear and not really noticed much of a difference.
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Apart from the banding issue I've never noticed any drawback to the electronic shutter. Rolling shutter doesn't seem to be an issue for me but I suppose that's down to what I/we take pictures of. On the bokeh thing, I've watched bloggers point to things but I've never spotted anything obvious in my own pictures.
 
Cockney said:
Check this for info.

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Thanks Brian

So,
GX80 + 12-60mm F/3.5-5.6

Looked at my Version Disp. for the first time. Says
Body Ver 1.2
Lens Ver 1.1

That site says
DMC-GX80/GX85 Ver.1.3
H-FS12060 Ver.1.3
if I'm reading it correctly. (H-FS12060 is the 12-60 kit lens?)

So what next? Format card in same body, download to pc, load on card, put card back in camera ....

I've got another 5 lenses to check/update.
 
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d00d said:
Thanks Brian

So,
GX80 + 12-60mm F/3.5-5.6

Looked at my Version Disp. for the first time. Says
Body Ver 1.2
Lens Ver 1.1

That site says
DMC-GX80/GX85 Ver.1.3
H-FS12060 Ver.1.3
if I'm reading it correctly. (H-FS12060 is the 12-60 kit lens?)

So what next? Format card in same body, download to pc, load on card, put card back in camera ....

I've got another 5 lenses to check/update.
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Yep the 12060 is the kit lens.
With card in camera switch on and go into pic review, it will ask if you want to update. Select yes and wait. It will only do it with fully charged battery though.

I would do body first, then lens as a seperate update.
 
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Hi Cockney/anyone

So I've got two zipped files in PC > Downloads .... I guess I need to extract/unzip them???

When I click on the card (This PC > Lumix G), I get

DCIM
MISC
PRIVATE

shall I drop the files (Camera first, or can they go on the card together?) in one of the above?

? .... TIA
 
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d00d said:
Hi Cockney/anyone

So I've got two zipped files in PC > Downloads .... I guess I need to extract/unzip them???

When I click on the card (This PC > Lumix G), I get

DCIM
MISC
PRIVATE

shall I drop the files (Camera first, or can they go on the card together?) in one of the above?

? .... TIA
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Just unzip the file for body, when it prompts for location send it to the card. Not in any folders, it has to be the root.
Do the update as previously mentioned.
Then I would reformat the card then repeat the process for the lens.

Its worth the bother,mine snaps to focus practically instantaneously now.
 
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d00d said:
Hi Cockney/anyone

So I've got two zipped files in PC > Downloads .... I guess I need to extract/unzip them???

When I click on the card (This PC > Lumix G), I get

DCIM
MISC
PRIVATE

shall I drop the files (Camera first, or can they go on the card together?) in one of the above?

? .... TIA
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The instructions are on the web site from which you downloaded the files and they specifically say to only put one file at a time on the card.
 
Snapsh0t said:
The instructions are on the web site from which you downloaded the files and they specifically say to only put one file at a time on the card.
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Thank you

Cockney said:
Just unzip the file for body, when it prompts for location send it to the card. Not in any folders, it has to be the root.
Do the update as previously mentioned.
Then I would reformat the card then repeat the process for the lens.

Its worth the bother,mine snaps to focus practically instantaneously now.
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and thank you @Cockney very much. All done :cool:

I'm not sure I notice any improvement, the kit was super fast to focus before, that's using AFS, maybe I'll see a difference in other modes.

Other lenses I have, namely the 45mm macro and the 100-300mm will hopefully show some improvement.
 
d00d said:
Thank you


and thank you @Cockney very much. All done :cool:

I'm not sure I notice any improvement, the kit was super fast to focus before, that's using AFS, maybe I'll see a difference in other modes.

Other lenses I have, namely the 45mm macro and the 100-300mm will hopefully show some improvement.
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Great stuff. Glad to be of help.
 
d00d said:
Oh well done!

I must get mine out again, haven't seen it all year. A fine lens, just don't stretch it. :cool:
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Only taken a few test shots to check all working ok, and upgrade firmware.
I will post some shots when I've used it in anger.
 
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Poor light, dull day and handheld with new 100/300 - g80. I think it coped really well.
Just taken on a Grasmere walk with Mrs Cockney.
 
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Cockney said:
Poor light, dull day and handheld with new 100/300 - g80
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Brian .... just copy&pasted it into Paint.Net, gave it a little sharpen, nothing more, looks much better, sharp in the right places.
 
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Thanks David. I've not had time for any pp. It's actually much sharper than it posts. I will post some more as flickr links when I can.
 
d00d said:
Brian .... just copy&pasted it into Paint.Net, gave it a little sharpen, nothing more, looks much better, sharp in the right places.
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Just ran it through lighroom mobile and reposted it. It's sharp as a tack on my tablet, don't know why thats not reflected here. :thinking:
 
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