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The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 New User's Guide

Graham Houghton

August 2018

The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User's Guide

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Page 1 The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 New User’s Guide Graham Houghton August 2018 The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Setting Up Your Camera to Meet Your Photographic Needs................18 Cursor Button, Menu/Set Button Operation ....................18 DISP Button Operation ........................... 18 Long Exposures – The Undocumented Feature ....................19 Sample Image Gallery ............................ 20 The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 3: Preface
This is where this field guide about the Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 will help. It explains the purpose of each of the Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 functions and controls, how you should use them and, more importantly, why.
Page 4 The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 is not only very easy to use, it's also easy to learn to use as long as you have my little guide book to help you along the way.
Page 5: The Ia Intelligent Auto Mode
Sometimes the scene recognition software incorrectly determines the scene being imaged. If this is the case switch to the SCN scene mode and select the most applicable scene type for the scene being photographed. The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 6: Auto Focus, Face/Eye Detection And Face Recognition
In this mode, face detection is active (as shown in the image above) and eye detection software attempts to locate and focus on the eye closest to the camera. Face detection and eye detection in operation on the FZ80/82 The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 7 Panasonic do state that, in some scene types, you should watch the indicated icon when you shoot in this mode and if the wrong scene type is detected then you should select the most appropriate mode from the SCN mode dial setting and menu choice.
Page 8 A lot of thought has gone into the automatic scene detection algorithms and they are becoming very reliable in selecting the correct scene type for the image being recorded. The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 9 All three controls can be applied to an image, if so required. Colour tint allows you to add either a warming or cooling effect to the image if you feel that the Auto White Balance (AWB) has not achieved the image look that you desire. The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 10 Brightness control, or as I would prefer to rename it exposure compensation, allows you to change the brightness of an image if the automatic metering of the camera has over reacted causing light scenes to go dark or dark scenes to be light. The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 11 Thus, a subject can be made to stand out in isolation from the background, such as in a flower study or portrait, or you can apply more depth of field when shooting smaller wildlife to ensure as much of the subject is in focus as possible. the background defocus control The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 12: Menu Items Adjustable In The Ia+ Mode
Disp.Style], [Monitor Disp. Style], [Monitor Info. Disp.], [Rec Area], [Remaining Disp.], [Auto Review], [Fn Button Set], [Zoom lever], [Lens Position Resume], [Lens Retraction], [Q.MENU], [Video Button], [Touch Settings], [Touch Scroll], [Menu Guide] In the (Setup) menu all the items may be set. The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 13: Taking Images Using The Program Auto Exposure Mode (P)
50mm where the range will be f3.9 to f8. Program Shift is not available in the following cases: When recording 4K photos When recording with [Post Focus] When the ISO sensitivity is set to [ The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 14: Taking Images Using The Aperture Priority Mode
At full zoom of 1200mm EFL the maximum aperture is just f5.9. Focal length Maximum aperture available F2.8 F3.9 F4.7 F5.5 F5.6 1200 F5.9 The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 15: Taking Images Using The Shutter Priority Mode
The range of adjustment is from 1 second to 1/16000 sec if the electronic shutter is used and 4 seconds to 1/2000 sec when the mechanical shutter is used. The camera automatically adjusts aperture to give the correct exposure (and possibly ISO if Auto ISO is selected). The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 16: Taking Images Using The Fully Manual Exposure Mode
If you have set iISO in the aperture priority mode, then this will become Auto ISO in the manual mode. The camera only supports exposures up to 4 seconds with the mechanical shutter so long night time exposures are not possible with this camera. The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 17: Using The Constant Preview Mode In Manual Mode
By assigning it to, say, the Fn2 button you can toggle this effect on and off just when you want to see the effect of changing either the shutter speed or the aperture has on the resulting image. The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 18: Setting Up Your Camera To Meet Your Photographic Needs
Everyone’s preferences will be different as to how to set up the controls of the FZ80/82 to make the camera ideally suited to your style of photography. Panasonic have created several programmable buttons and controls to enable specific adjustments to be created to meet your needs.
Page 19: Long Exposures - The Undocumented Feature
Then set the shutter speed until the exposure meter is reading 0EV. The use of the EV compensation can effectively change the aperture (within the range available for the zoom setting applied) This video explains the whole process in detail. The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
Page 20: Sample Image Gallery
Sample Image Gallery a few images from the FZ80/82 The Panasonic Lumix FZ80/82 User’s Guide...
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