Roadside Birding with Lumix G9
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Basic tips for roadside birding on the Alberta Prairies. Also in-camera 4k video frame capture.
Table of Contents
0:00 Warm, end of day light
0:30 Fenceposts and Telephone poles
0:47 Dust on country roads
1:20 Short Eared owls
1:30 Waiting game
1:49 Luck
2:00 Laurie found it
2:20 4K video
2:35 In-camera 4K video frame capture
4:42 Comparing 4K video with Photo
5:04 Enjoy your time
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What a beautiful roadside birding trip!
I love it. Thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for letting me know.
Hi Marlene! I really like the dusty road image! I also really like the fact that that you're getting the best out of the Lumix G9. What an amazing camera system in the hands of a great photographer! :-)
Thank you for your kind words Jack. 😊
An excellent idea. Many thanks, Marlene!! It always something very useful I can learn from you. Best.
Hi Jerzy, Glad it was helpful! Thank you for dropping me a comment. Cheers.
Thanks for sharing Marlene! What a wonderful video and thanks for the tip how to capture a pic from the video.
Glad you enjoyed it, Anders! Yes that 4K video frame extraction is great. I'm a new convert myself. It has saved me in a couple of scenarios already. Cheers.
Thanks Marlene, once again informative video, and I have never seen that bird before.
Merlins are pretty common around here. They often hunt the sparrows in the city too. Thank you for watching!
Excellent
Coolio! Great info about the screen capture and always inspiring.
Glad to hear it! Yes, it's a new technique for me. Saved me in this case! Thanks for watching and dropping me a comment.
Very helpful as always. 🙂
Glad you think so Ginger! Thank you.
Great video and beautiful pictures!
Thank you so much for watching.
Birds of Pray are probably the best to find by roadside like you mentioned. I remember when I tried to find Caracara here in Florida and finally got it by the roadside in South Florida. Very helpful video. Good advice about getting frame captures out of 4K video. Thank you. 👍
Hi Thomas, Yes the roadside birds are fairly easy to spot. Seems I see the most when whizzing down a larger highway where you can’t easily stop. Glad you liked the 4K video tip. Thanks for stopping by to chat.
Great idea on the video capture. I struggle with when I should photo vs. video and knowing I can pull an image out is great to know. . Still finding my way around the G9 and am still working through your excellent content👍
Yes I struggle with that choice too. But I typically go for photos first. And if I think I have time I’ll grab video too. Usually I just press the red dot and not worry about video settings. Happy New year and enjoy getting to know your G9. I love this camera.
@@ImageMaven Thanks - I'll go with that approach too. Camera is great (my first non-pos) gotta say the AI+ is awesome - I may even give up on Aperture priority for well lit scenes. Bought it for my Alaska trip - and that is evidently always daylight 🙂
Great advice many thanks Marlene. Often here in the UK I see birds of prey when I am out I my car so from tomorrow (my 60th) the Lumix go comes out!
Happy Bird-day Mark! 🥳 What a great way to spend your 60th. I’m not too far behind you. Hope you get some good shots.
@@ImageMaven Thanks Marlene hopefully I can capture something
Hi Marlene I got some great bird shots today how can I send them to you?
Great to hear it. I don't accept photos via email, but you can post them on Instagram and I'll take a look. Just tag @imagemaven and I'll find you.
You know what it never occurred to me to use frame capture! Top stuff!
Hi Joe. I never did either! But now I'm counting on it to get me some missed shots. Cheers!
I wouldn’t worry too much about dust and the G9. It’s sealed, and so are most of the Panasonic lenses. Just give it a rinse when you get home. Worst case, cleaning the sensor isn’t that difficult.
Lovely photos and video!
Yes, that's true indeed, but it's always a bit unnerving to be in the middle of a dusty wind. Thanks for stopping by!
Many thanks Marlene for another excellent video and great seeing those wide open Canadian landscapes. I have the 4K video set on one of my custom settings but I hadn't thought of extracting stills from the footage, generally using the Pre burst mode instead. I'll be giving it a try though, thanks Dave.
Hi Dave, Yes, I do love our prairie landscapes. Many fields don't even have fences around them. Glad you liked file extraction tip! Pre-burst has definitely saved some of my shots, especially when photographing the more skittish birds. Thanks for stopping by!
Great video - again I learned something I didn't know - the photo capture from video. I usually do it through Lightroom. But, this is far easier! Thanks for the tip!
I agree Bob. Much easier this way. Thanks for watching. Cheers!
Thanks for this video Marlene and the tips. I don't have a G9, but it would be nice to have one...someday. I will look to see if my Panasonic cameras have image extraction from 4K video.
Also very nice sunset picture!
Hi Joe! Yes, they all work the same way and with 1080p video as well. Check it out soon! And that sunset was a bonus. I was packing everything up and decided to wait for it!
A very nice video from the field. I also take pictures from the car from time to time. It is very practical to hang a camouflage net in front of the open driver's side. Because, at least in our region, the birds often fly away when I stop. With the camouflage net in the left side window, the contours from me and the camera disappear and the birds usually remain at their place. I showed this in one of my videos, also with a DIY car window tripod, if you're interested. Best regards, Rolf
Thanks for the tips about the car blind, Rolf. The birds definitely fly away if we walk around outside our cars. I learned that the hard way with the Short Eared Owls. It was my first time trying to shoot them, so I learned my lesson. I'll check out your videos. Cheers!
@@ImageMaven You are welcome, here is the link to this video czcams.com/video/rB7Rid2erzM/video.html, may be it could help you a little bit.
Great footage of the merlin. Thanks for the 'how to' on '4K frame captures from video' presented here. The photos seem very nice quality. Saves you from having to constantly flick the Mode dial from Photo to Video during a wildlife shoot when you want both. There's something about dry manufacturer camera manuals that makes them hard to read and absorb information from, even though the information is all in there.
Hello Bluety! Nice to meet you. Yes, those dry camera manuals are why I'm still here making G9 videos after 4 years of owning it. Reading and understanding them is an art in itself. Glad you liked the 4K video extraction tip! Cheers.
These are some great shots. I hope you're keeping an archive of 4K video you shoot. They will come in handy someday when you have time to piece together your great shots by creating a video of the birds. In the past, I've never pulled much photo from my videos, but with G9 part of my workflow is to go through each 4K video shot to pull picks of action shots I could'nt get while video shooting. Anyway, thanks for the great G9 tips and videos with the photos of those birds.
Hello Neon, Yes frame capture is something I've recently started doing a lot more. It's very handy. In this case my photos were really noisy as I was using a high shutter speed and high ISO. But of course the video used slower shutter speed and lower ISO, so far less noise than the photos. Worked out great and saved my shoot. And yes, I'm keeping my 4K video clips. Will be nice to look back and see how I've improved. Cheers!
Great to see you out of the studio and in your great Canadian outdoors. I'll have to try the 4k video out. A tip for those who may want more than 8mp is use Topaz Gigapixel on your selected frame to enlarge. It gives very good results. Again, you took some nice bird shots. Always fun to see.
Hi Steven. Great to hear from you once again. Thank you for sharing your Topaz tip. I love this community!
We share taste for five lenses. 12-35, 35-100, 15, 9, 100-400. Excellent.
And these days I use the 100-400mm and the 9mm the most. Totally opposite ends of the focal length spectrum.
I’m going to try the frame capture in camera vs grabbing a still from Davinci Resolve I’m so excited that I finally took some photos of mourning doves and herons. I just bought a used GO. I’m loving LUMIX better than Sony APSC.
Yes, keep in mind that you can only do in-camera video frame captures with the certain burst modes, like HS Burst, pre-burst and the 4K, 6K photo modes. So make sure you test this out first. Have fun with your "new to you" Lumix.
I love that you're birding now. I've been birding for about 12 years and I got my G9 in 2019 after watching your videos. Birding entails continuous learning. And there's much to learn about the feature-rich, often-updating G9, too. So, THANKS A LOT for what you do!
Do you turn on the teleconverter for your videos?
Hi Sean, Thank you for your kind words! I'm just loving birding with my G9. I borrowed a 100-400mm lens for the weekend, and I shot some very rare owls with it. You can see a few shots on my Community tab here in CZcams. Working on a tutorial soon. As for videos, I shoot them in 4K so that brings them a bit closer. Haven't tried the teleconverter yet as I've been fairly close to my subjects so far. I'm afraid it would make me very shaky. Even at 400mm I found it hard to handhold without really bouncing around. Have you used it for video? Curious to know people experiences. Cheers!
As always, a very useful video and excellent information on the G9 as well as some very nice images to illustrate your points. Cars make a useful blind but you have to watch for possible heat distortion rising from your car and, as Steve Perry recently pointed out, even distortion caused by warmer air that may be trapped inside a deep lens shade. Thanks for all your help exploring the capabilities of the G9. I was wondering if you've tested long lens sharpness with AFC vs AFF with the motor drive? A tech checking the autofocus on one of my Leica 114's (a Lumix FZ1000 cousin) suggested that might be a better option for perched birds.
Hi Bruce. Yes, you definitely want to make sure your car is turned off and that you don't have mirage effects. Never heard about the lens shade distortion! Will watch for that. I use AFS for 90% of my shots. But it's something to test out. Thanks for sharing all your tips. I'm sure they will be helpful to others as well. Cheers!
Always worth a looksee at your channel. This time showing me a feature I didn't know my G9 was capable of - in camera video frame capture in 4k. Same as the 6k m.o. but just doing it in 4k ? I prefer doing things in camera if possible. Thanks again.
Hi Ray, Great to hear from you again. Yes the video frame capture is the same in all the video formats, as well as 4k/6k Photo modes. I think it works the same in all Lumix cameras (at least the ones I own). It's very handy if you're grabbing frames and uploading to your phone via WiFi, and then sharing over social media. For events it would be very useful too. Thanks for stopping by to chat!
Super nice, I’ve not been fortunate enough to see a Merlin, but I have spent a wonderful hour watching Shorteared Owls. The stills capture from 4K video is really useful at times, I’ve had good results when the light is good. Did you do any post editing on the still?
Wonderful about the SEOs! I hope I get a chance like that soon. Merlins are pretty common around here. We even have them in the city. I didn't do any post on these 4K video captures. Because of the lower shutter speed of my video clips, the ISO was able to be much lower, so the 4K video quality in this case was less noisy as a result. And the light was soft and filtered through some low cloud, so the dynamic range was not too hard to hold in. Thanks for watching Sue! Always great to chat with you.
Congratulations a very beautiful video shots. Beside the 100-300, what lens ( or camera if wasn’t the g9) did you use?
Thanks!
Hi Andres, For the wide shots and the shots of me talking I used my Lumix G100 and 15mm f/1.7 lens. It's a handy little camera with a lot of the Lumix M4:3 features I love. Has mic jack too, so I can get decent audio when out and about. Thank you for watching!
Great information and some lovely shots! It looked to be a special day especially with the sunset capping all things off. Are you normally filling both card slots and, if so, are both set to raw? Coffee's on the way!!
Hi Steve, Thank you again for the coffees! Already on my second one this morning. I don't use both card slots when I'm shooting. I fill them one at a time. And I rarely shoot raw for birding. I actually did last week to reconfirm my workflow in that matter, but the jpgs were just fine. But in tricky lighting, raw is sometimes necessary. Hard to believe that I used to shoot 100% raw and never jpg. When shooting in Burst modes the cards and computers fill up with a lot of extra files. It's a huge job to keep up with all the file management. Delete, delete, delete. It's a task I do when listening to podcasts. Have a great day Steve. Always great to chat with you!
@@ImageMaven Thank you for sharing that with me. As I sit here reading this it seems almost fortuitous that in mentioning revisiting your work flow, that might make for a most interesting video from dusk to dawn of the final shot and what you go through to nail some of these. A shot in the dark if will :) So glad you are enjoying the coffee. The last time I was in Edmonton I enjoyed some Tim Horton's brew. Quite nice :) Stay warm!!
Edmonton! Our rival city. 😉 Half my family lives there, and a whole bunch of my skateboarding friends too. It's a great city. Great idea about the video. I'll see how things go. I think I might scale things back for a few weeks and take some time to re-evaluate and see where to go next with my CZcams channel. Just thinking about it. Hmm....I feel I need to sharpen my bird photography skills and shoot much more too. I feel I'm just getting started.
@@ImageMaven Excelent!
Hi Marlene, you only giving some tips or instructions how to use the Lumix G9 in the best way. I have the G90 but that would'nt interesse you I guess, but any tips for the best setting on the Lumix G90?
Hi Eppie, Camera settings on your camera will be similar as Lumix cameras share many same features. But settings also depend on your subject and the desired outcome. Do you need settings for photographing birds? Or something else?
@@ImageMaven Where I live ( in my area in the Netherlands) there is no wildlife or intersting birds to watch. But say like sports or something ( fast moving objects etc). Panasonic Lumix has a reputation for a bad autofucus. Yesterday I was shooting some videos and stills with my grandchild, but half of the result was unsharp pictures.
Ah, I thought you were asking about birding, as you left your comment on a birding video.
Are they unsharp or motion blur? Maybe your shutter speed was too slow. Maybe you're not using the correct focus method. Here's some tips for action photos. czcams.com/video/lfW0P-zDo6A/video.html
WOW!! I love the "come along with me" invitation to explore nature photography in a way that's accessible for all. Then I learned something new about 4K video screen capture that I'll try. For wildlife, I usually shoot 4K with the ex teleconverter on to get a close view. A question for you: does the screen capture work with FHD video? I want to try this because I've found that FHD with the ex teleconverter on gets amazing magnification and decent prints ( if I'm able to stabilize the camera). Nice work and encourages the ret of us to get out there!😊
Hi Jason, YES absolutely it works with FHD! Sounds like you have a great reach there. Thank you for the feedback on my recent videos. This one isn't very popular compared to my "gear" videos. I think my loyal fans (such as yourself) are watching and commenting but overall, views are really down. Maybe people are watching the Olympics instead?
@@ImageMaven It's not just you, Marlene. Poor Mark Zuckerberg just lost $30 billion dollars yesterday because fewer people are on Facebook/Instagram. As "normal" returns, we all have adjust to less device time and more opportunities to move on with our lives. Your recent out of studio videos are a step along the path towards better days! 😀
Ha ha. Poor Mark Zuckerberg indeed. Cough cough. Thanks for your vote of confidence, Jason. Cheers!
Hi Marlene, can you advise me on which Lens is good or best for Macro photography with the Lumix G9.. I live in the Uk and like your channel on 4/3 equipment
Hi Martin, The only Lumix branded lens I know about is the LUMIX G Macro lens (30 mm). Model H-HS030. But there are other good M4/3 lenses out there including the Olympus, Laowa and Sigma brands. I think it also depends on the focal length you need and how close you need to be to your subject. A good friend of mine has the Olympus 60mm and it's really sharp (is also a great portrait lens). Make sure you check the specs before buying as the focal lengths vary.
@@ImageMaven Hi, thanks for getting back to me. I have now purchased the Olymp 60mm so hope it works for me ...thanks again from me ( martin in the UK )..
Nice video and here is the power of m43. With just a 300mm you can make very good wildlife shots. I would like also to congratulate you for the introduction of the video. I don t know with what you shot it but you are very sharp with a nice blurred back ground. Really it s very good quality. May I know what camera /lense you used for it ?
Hi Phil, I'm using the Lumix G9 with the 100-300ii for my birding shots. It's a nice affordable and light kit, especially when walking around a lot in the bush. I don't do a lot of roadside birding, but it works well for that too. Might try to rent the 100-400mm as on the roadside I'm usually farther away from the birds, than in the forests.
@@ImageMaven Hi again. Sorry I was not clear. I was asking which camera /lens you use for filming yourself during the introduction (0:00 to 0:15).
I was using the Lumix G100 and 15mm f/1.7 lens for all the shots of me talking as well as the closeups of the camera when in the studio.
@@ImageMaven Thx. Is seems to be the perfect combination.
Hello Marlene, Since your uploading this video the GH6 has been released. Do you intend buying or will you stick to the G9. I shoot birds with a G9 and a Olympus 100mm-400mm. I enjoy the G9 but do have issues with focusing at times in dense foliage. I noted the GH6 is still using Contrast Detect for focusing and despite it being more a video camera, I do feel it would be an excellent Photographic Camera. My big concern with the GH6 is its contrast based focusing. Your thoughts would be appreciated. cheers from Australia
Not sure. I’m really hoping for a successor to the G9. But the GH6 is indeed tempting. Just a bit too pricey for me at this time. My G9 isn’t broken so upgrading will not be a necessity. It’s hard not to jump on the “new camera hype” though. People have started to receive their GH6 pre-orders so I’d say keep your eyes on their first impressions as I have not used the camera myself.
Hi Marlene! My G9 doesnt let me see focus peaking and the "peaking" option is greyed out in the menu saying "this item can't be selected". I'm in MF mode, tried M and creative movie mode and can't see any peaking appear. Any ideas why this might be? Thanks already.
I can't replicate your problem. I've looked at the PDF owner's manual and nothing is jumping out at me. I suggest you do the same. Search "Peaking" and it will show you 17 results. You can also contact Panasonic Support. Link to that and all the owner's manuals is: eng-ca.faq.panasonic.com/app/operating_manuals
If you figure it out, please let me know so you can help others.
These Panasonic cameras have alot of tools you do not see in other brands.
That's good to know Steve. I don't have much experience with other brands, except older Canon dSLRs, but that was about 8 years ago. Thanks for stopping by!