{"id":528,"date":"2018-09-12T20:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T20:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/?post_type=article&p=528"},"modified":"2023-04-19T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:14:16","slug":"panasonic-lumix-fz1000-setup","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/whisperingcat.co.uk\/wp\/review\/panasonic-lumix-fz1000-setup","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 – first stab at set up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 is a very sophisticated camera, as sophisticated as many DSLRs. Although it has a fully auto mode, I’m ignoring this. Setting it up properly can be daunting but it helps if you are used to the Lumix menu options. Set up is very personal and down to how you like to work. There is no real right and wrong if your set up works for you.<\/p>\n

I come from the unsophisticated cameras of the film era, so I like to keep my digital camera set up as simple as I can (without completely ignoring the technological advances of the last 40 years!).<\/p>\n

Basic Settings<\/h2>\n

File type and quality<\/h3>\n

RAW + JPEG Fine (during the initial familiarising phase – I will likely use raw only in due course)<\/p>\n

Aspect ratio<\/h3>\n

4:3 (this is a crop of the 3:2 sensor and a reduction to 17.5MP. Never mind. I prefer the squarer format for composing and I would mostly have cropped the edge in post anyway)<\/p>\n

Drive dial<\/h3>\n

Single shot mode<\/p>\n

Exposure mode<\/h3>\n

Aperture priority<\/p>\n

Metering pattern<\/h3>\n

Evaluative<\/p>\n

AF mode<\/h3>\n

AF-S (single press, not continous).<\/p>\n

AF point<\/h3>\n

Single area, centre point (old fashioned – one day I’ll learn about these multi point AF setups, predictive and tracking focus etc).<\/p>\n

AF activation<\/h3>\n

Half press of shutter or back button (AE Lock customised to activate AF).<\/p>\n

Viewfinder<\/h3>\n

I have the viewfinder set with the main display on a black strip under the viewing area rather than floating on top. I wish EVFs were more customisable, such that you could turn on and off every individual icon and display. I find cluttered displays distracting but the clean display options remove too much).<\/p>\n

C1 position on the mode dial<\/h3>\n

I have my settings saved to the C1 custom set position on the main mode dial.<\/p>\n

Next…<\/h2>\n

I’ll make a second set up post about all the complicated menu options and customisable function buttons next.<\/p>\n

Index to FZ1000 articles<\/strong><\/p>\n