"Panasonic G series" Owners Thread

Crotal Bell said:
No but I tried the de-noise on Lightroom and it took ages. I use the quick one on my free editor and just chuck a bit on sometimes.

TBH a bit of noise doesn't bother me really, I just accept it usually.

If the day comes when I capture something really special, then I would invest in de-noise to get the best from it, but that day hasn't come yet.
Click to expand...

There are some free packages but I don't know how good they are.

I haven't had a desk top for years as I used to fix them and I got sick of the sight of them so all I've had for years is a lap top, I used to fix these too but I don't find them as room dominating as a desk top, and I really should buy a faster one. What I do with my creaking old one is shut everything down and let Denise do its thing. It takes several minutes to process a full uncropped raw.
 
Last edited:
woof woof said:
There are some free packages but I don't know how good they are.

I haven't had a desk top for years as I used to fix them and I got sick of the sight of them so all I've had for years is a lap top, I used to fix these too but I don't find them as room dominating as a desk top, and I really should buy a faster one. What I do with my creaking old one is shut everything down and let Denise do its thing. It takes several minutes to process a full uncropped raw.
Click to expand...
Yeah I'm only on a laptop, the keys are going on mine so time for a new one soon. Mine has a decent processor but also takes ages, I think it's just a long process buddy.
 
To me the content of the photo is far more important than the technical excellence. When I think of the great photos from history it's the event and emotion that count, in fact I dont consciously give them a tech critical once over.
 
woof woof said:
I'm a fan of auto ISO as manually selecting it is just another thing to do and in doing it you might miss the moment. I'm also a fan of having whatever the max is available as if you take a picture and the noise is too bad you can delete it but don't take the picture at all and, well, you've just got no picture.
Click to expand...

Very valid point, then adding to that your later post about motion blur and shutter speed, I find that whenever I need an ISO above12800, I would usually be making more manual choices like shutter speed anyway, so the extra thought needed is helpful.
If I was casually walking round town at night without a tripod, I would probably then use auto ISO up to its max.

There are so many combinations of conditions, my compromise is to set the max to 6400 or 12800 if need be, and that in general use gives me the best balance for the way I do things (right or wrong :) )
 
Crotal Bell said:
I'm impressed with those. Been thinking of a macro but can't afford the Oly 90mm or the other premium lenses, but this looks pretty darn good.
Do you need to use a soft flash to get good images with this lens? And is it only available from China?
Click to expand...
Hi Keith, l got mine from pergear.com and it took a few days to arrive. I did use a diffused ring flash to help fill shadows and soften the light. I must say l am impressed with the sharpness of the pergear 60mm f2.8.
 
Hmmm ... I don't know if some cameras have a chosen minimum ISO setting, but it's a good idea. ISO 3200 is a number that's stuck in my mind as barely distinguishable from 100, on a typical English April morn.
 
ajophotog said:
Hi Keith, l got mine from pergear.com and it took a few days to arrive. I did use a diffused ring flash to help fill shadows and soften the light. I must say l am impressed with the sharpness of the pergear 60mm f2.8.
Click to expand...
Thanks buddy
 
just a quick note. I managed to get a wireless remote shutter trigger from China for the panasonic G9 camera. It is the Pixel Oppillas/L1 for Panasonic. The camera requires a 2.5mm cable 3pole on one end and a 4 pole on the other. found on Amazon web site
 
Last edited:
I thought I had a 50mm lens, but it seems I gave it away 18 months ago, but whilst looking for it, I remembered I had a cheap (£15 at the time) C mount lens and M43 adapter on a G3 I converted to IR for the kids.

Put it on a G9 to try it, and quite pleased with it, I have some doubts that the f1.8 is genuine, and the corners are a bit soft until you get above F4, but it will certainly do what I wanted for no cost :)

clens.jpg

Nothing great, but reasonable enough.
 
Sangoma said:
I thought I had a 50mm lens, but it seems I gave it away 18 months ago, but whilst looking for it, I remembered I had a cheap (£15 at the time) C mount lens and M43 adapter on a G3 I converted to IR for the kids.

Put it on a G9 to try it, and quite pleased with it, I have some doubts that the f1.8 is genuine, and the corners are a bit soft until you get above F4, but it will certainly do what I wanted for no cost :)

View attachment 421064

Nothing great, but reasonable enough.
Click to expand...
Nice, and great result on finding the lens. I've never considered a M43 adapter to explore other lenses.
 
Panasonic G9 and 100-400mm lens
Usually I edit the RAWs but the last couple of outings I have edited the J Pegs, and I think I prefer it.
When I crop the RAWS I can't get as close as I can with the J Pegs, which allow a much heavier crop and they still look really good on the laptop. I guess if they were blown up to a larger size they would suffer after a really heavy crop, but I only produce photos for laptop use and I am loving the results with the Jpegs. The following image is a small square out of the middle of the image, the Robin was pretty small in the original. This is a massive crop, so much so that I didn't have to reduce the image as usual to get it on the forum.
010 24 04 24.JPG
 
Crotal Bell said:
Panasonic G9 and 100-400mm lens
Usually I edit the RAWs but the last couple of outings I have edited the J Pegs, and I think I prefer it.
When I crop the RAWS I can't get as close as I can with the J Pegs, which allow a much heavier crop and they still look really good on the laptop. I guess if they were blown up to a larger size they would suffer after a really heavy crop, but I only produce photos for laptop use and I am loving the results with the Jpegs. The following image is a small square out of the middle of the image, the Robin was pretty small in the original. This is a massive crop, so much so that I didn't have to reduce the image as usual to get it on the forum.
View attachment 421085
Click to expand...

I was reading the other day that many people use mainly JPEGs on the G9, and its processing is considered to be extremely good, making it very hard to do better processing RAWs, and I agree with you, it is good,

Affinity does a good job on any slight noise, without noticeably losing detail.

I still set it to record the RAWs to the second card, but I no longer keep them after I have checked I am happy with the JPEGs

I do have a custom setting where the sharpening and noise reduction on the JPEGs is turned right down, then I apply it in Affinity
 
Sangoma said:
I was reading the other day that many people use mainly JPEGs on the G9, and its processing is considered to be extremely good, making it very hard to do better processing RAWs, and I agree with you, it is good,

Affinity does a good job on any slight noise, without noticeably losing detail.

I still set it to record the RAWs to the second card, but I no longer keep them after I have checked I am happy with the JPEGs

I do have a custom setting where the sharpening and noise reduction on the JPEGs is turned right down, then I apply it in Affinity
Click to expand...
Interesting you say that, as the one thing with the JPegs is I find the sharpening applied is not quite as clean as I can do myself on a RAW, but it's pretty close. If it's not too complicated I would be grateful to know how you apply those settings.
 
Crotal Bell said:
Interesting you say that, as the one thing with the JPegs is I find the sharpening applied is not quite as clean as I can do myself on a RAW, but it's pretty close. If it's not too complicated I would be grateful to know how you apply those settings.
Click to expand...
Do you mean how to turn it down on the camera, or how to apply it with Affinity?
 
Crotal Bell said:
How to set the camera to leave the sharpen to you in edit buddy.
Click to expand...
OK, Menu, REC (red camera icon top left), page one, Photo Style, select Standard ( can do the same with other styles), then down button (the ring under the menu button) then you can adjust Contrast, Sharpness, Noise Reduction and Saturation.

I set Contrast and Saturation to 0, Sharpness and Noise reduction to -5 and Saturation to 0

I then set everything else to how I would normally use it and save all the settings one of the 5 Custom settings.

Then go back and change the Standard settings to what they were.
 
Sangoma said:
OK, Menu, REC (red camera icon top left), page one, Photo Style, select Standard ( can do the same with other styles), then down button (the ring under the menu button) then you can adjust Contrast, Sharpness, Noise Reduction and Saturation.

I set Contrast and Saturation to 0, Sharpness and Noise reduction to -5 and Saturation to 0

I then set everything else to how I would normally use it and save all the settings one of the 5 Custom settings.

Then go back and change the Standard settings to what they were.
Click to expand...
Thanks mate, I'll have a play when I get the chance.
 
Mrs WW at a church event.

GX80, Panasonic 14mm f2.5 at f2.5, 1/160 and ISO 6,400.

P1080619-Enhanced-NR.jpg

I hope the sharpness survived the posting process.

100% from that.

1-P1080619-Enhanced-NR.jpg

There are times when MFT surprises me and today it did again and in a good way. I'm very happy with the ISO 6,400 picture after running Adobe denoise and this tiny lens on the GX80 makes this tiny lens and small camera package a joy to use.
 
Last edited:
Nearly sliped up before I took the G9 out for a proper run through. I clean all my camera sensors and have done for a long time. Of course I have been using spade swabs for full frame cameras to now. Of course the spade swabs are too big for the G9 so just ordered some 12mm across the spade head .Just incase others do clean their own four thirds camera.I have also a loupe -round swabes -blower and Artic butterfly, so well equiped to do the job.
Nothing worse than sending a camera away for this simple job and be without it for "x" amount of time and hope they have donethe job properly
 
Last edited:
Well at last it has arrived.virtually impossible to get in the uk, or at least I have not found one other anywhere than from China

so what is so different you may ask and what is it for. first of all the panasonic G9 remote wireless shutter release is not that common . Not so much the transmitter/receiver but the link cable from receiver to the camera.

P1001225.JPG





it needs a 2.5mm cable with a 3 pole on one end and a 4 pole on the other. The 4 pole end goes into the camera which is strange to say he least. So this is a spare one I ordered
 
Last edited:
realspeed said:
Well at last it has arrived.virtually impossible to get in the uk, or at least I have not found one other anywhere than from China

so what is so different you may ask and what is it for. first of all the panasonic G9 remote wireless shutter release is not that common . Not so much the transmitter/receiver but the link cable from receiver to the camera.

View attachment 421683





it needs a 2.5mm cable with a 3 pole on one end and a 4 pole on the other. The 4 pole end goes into the camera which is strange to say he least. So this is a spare one I ordered
Click to expand...


It is actually common to the G3 upwards (I haven't checked on the G2 and G1, but probably them too)

I buy from aliexpress as it's cheaper, about £1.25 each.

You can buy the plugs here as well, but they are dogs to solder.
 
P1060415.JPG
advantage= neat- small- -discreet (trigger shutter while transmitter in pocket)-100mtr range- looks professional against using a mobile phone app. cost £35
 
I'm a fan of auto ISO as manually selecting it is just another thing to do and in doing it you might miss the moment. I'm also a fan of having whatever the max is available as if you take a picture and the noise is too bad you can delete it but don't take the picture at all and, well, you've just got no picture.
Click to expand...

Cockney said:
I must admit, that's the logic I lean toward.
Click to expand...

When out birding, wanting a high SS and a decent DoF, and you know results are good at say 3200 ISO, you're best to hold your ISO at 3200 to prevent your SS dropping or your f/ number dropping. If that makes sense.
 
d00d said:
When out birding, wanting a high SS and a decent DoF, and you know results are good at say 3200 ISO, you're best to hold your ISO at 3200 to prevent your SS dropping or your f/ number dropping. If that makes sense.
Click to expand...
Its a fair point. What mode are you shooting in?
 
Cockney said:
Its a fair point. What mode are you shooting in?
Click to expand...

Normally S mode, sometimes A mode, sometimes switching between the two, but yes semi automatic. There are many different situations, I don't know why I mentioned birding, I'm more likely to do street. Or even more challenging, down in a dingy tube station, people are moving unpredictably, main subject is up close but you also want background people in focus.
 
Hi all, just a quick question on batteries, I am only getting around 150 shots with my Panny G5 with the BLC-12E battery before it needs charging again, is this normal or is the battery not in good health?, I have no idea how old the battery is as it came with the camera second hand, Panasonic quote 310- 320 shots, so only getting around half the quoted shots lol. Not a massive problem, but it always seems to beep and turn off just at the wrong moment.
 
Non-genuine batteries are just over £20 for two.
Never counted the shots, but that does seem low.
 
Sangoma said:
Non-genuine batteries are just over £20 for two.
Never counted the shots, but that does seem low.
Click to expand...
Any recomendations ? keep reading about non genuine batteries swelling in the camera and not coming back out lol, so a bit nervous having no experience.
 
I've got a couple of Lumix bodies: DSTE spares for one, Expro spares for the other. No Problems.

Camera manufacturers make some pretty wild claims regarding number of shots. In the real world 150 sounds about right.

I could ask, are you using manual or electronic shutter, I'm sure that makes a difference. And what else are you doing to flatten the battery, ie turning it On & Off? chimping ;) ? What screen brightness level, etc.?
 
d00d said:
I've got a couple of Lumix bodies: DSTE spares for one, Expro spares for the other. No Problems.

Camera manufacturers make some pretty wild claims regarding number of shots. In the real world 150 sounds about right.

I could ask, are you using manual or electronic shutter, I'm sure that makes a difference. And what else are you doing to flatten the battery, ie turning it On & Off? chimping ;) ? What screen brightness level, etc.?
Click to expand...
I've always wondered. When I'm going for a walk I have the camera off, only switching it on when I see a shot I fancy. I have screen/viewfinder on auto, and a short time out. Am I using more battery than just leaving it on? :cool:
 
Cockney said:
I've always wondered. When I'm going for a walk I have the camera off, only switching it on when I see a shot I fancy. I have screen/viewfinder on auto, and a short time out. Am I using more battery than just leaving it on? :cool:
Click to expand...
Who knows! Maybe nothing in it, but there must be lots little things, ibis, beeping sounds, processing engine, AF, it must add up.
 
Ian
i was thinking about getting that lens as well. What has put me off are the reports from others who own one that they are liable to internal damage the strain in the connection to camera. so I went for the 100 -300mm lens instead
 
I've not had a problem with the 100-400mm on my GX80 or GX9 and certainly no damage to the lens mounts. The only issue I can report is that the zoom function is stiff and I gather this is a common thing. I don't know if they're all stiff but it does seem to be a very common report.
 
I previously had the 100-300mm but traded it in for a used !00-400mm in excellent condition as I wanted a bit more reach. Absolutely no problems on my G9 and the zoom function is fine. I'm very happy with the results I am getting. I also have a GX80 but I've not tried the 100-400mm on that yet.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top