Thanks for making such a well detailed tutorial! I’m new to cinematography and photography and I feel like I have quite a bit to master on my G7 and I really enjoyed your walkthrough.
Great Video. I was in Zion Nationalpark in Oktober 2018. also with my Lumix G70. And i also did some nice time lapses. Man, that video brings back memories... :)
Cheers! Very useful video. Thanks! You could take it a step further. Shooting your images in the max photo settings does not take away sides, 16:9 takes away the top and bottom! After timelapsing in the max photo setting you do not make a video in cam, but take all the RAW images and proces them with LR-Timelapse method. Then you have much more accessible dynamic range and cropping options. All with the option to animate those. LRT also has functions to get rid of flickering and instability. It is a bit more work and a steep learning curve but the results can be stunning because you have that RAW dynamic range you can acces. Thanks again for this clip. And oh... 5600K is daylight. 5700 is a bit too cool. No problems as long you don't have skintones in the image.
Thanks! I've never heard of the tool but you've got my attention. I just find it convenient to be able to generate the movie in the camera. In the past I used GoPro's movie software to stitch them together.
Yeah it is definitely convenient. But you lose all the RAW power those pictures have because the camera compresses it into that clip. Think of it as playing in Lightroom with a RAW file but have control over the hundreds of pictures in a few simple clicks.
Excellent tutorial. This is a pretty complicated camera for me - I am a little bit of a novice. I am testing it out now on a sunset. I forgot to set the focus to manual though, so we'll see how it turns out.
thanks for the hard work and effort to make this tutorials , i am about to buy a lens so i start to use what i learned ,by your opinion , can the 25mm f1.7 perform good ? or soul'd i stick with the 20mm f1.7
I do need to, and I plan to shortly! I unfortunately water damaged my G7, so I have another one on the way. For 2016 my goal is to offer a number of tutorials for people to get the most out of the G7.
+supra2k8 I tripped over a cement pylon that was concealed by tall grass. I fell into the wet grass (it rained) and continued to use the camera for the night after only drying it off with my shirt. Unfortunately the water got into the buttons, the lens mount, and inside the electronics, so now I get a garbled image when I turn the camera on. Quite sad, actually...
I really like this, it is very useful . but 4:3 doesn't really squishes the sides. It does extend the field of view vertically. So if you forget to set it at 16:9 befor shooting. You can crop it later you would get exactly the same result
wow great time lapse shots, I just wonder what kind of lenses do you recommend for night-lapse shots in terms of aperture, what are the minimum requirements?
an lens with aperture under atleast f2.0 would be good and also you want the lens to be extra wide to get a bigger view of space. And also you want the lens focal length to be under 24mm for bigger field of view!
To abort the timelapse you press Fn3 but it only works while the last picture taken is being shown and while waiting to take the next picture. With these settings 6 second exposure + 6 second dark exposure = 12 seconds and a 13 second interval that leaves just 1 second when the Fn3 button will work. In actuality you don't even have 1 second. It must be more like 1 millisecond because I was unable to abort. Instead just turn the drive mode dial away from timelapse. It aborts without asking to make a video so you have to do it in another menu.
DUDE love this video, thank you. Just got a G7 and it's maybe already my favorite camera, so small and light but seems to kick ass and does everything I want. What pancake lens are you using?
Heya! I loved this tutorial and then subsequently all the other adventures on ur channel... I just bought the G7 and would love to get something like the clarity you get.. is there anything you recommend I do to learn? My current strategy is just to produce 1 video a week and improve with time... it's really funny - the first time-lapse video you got of you cleaning ur room years ago is basically exactly where I'm at now! The vast progress u made over the years is inspiring!!! :D keep up the good work!!!
I followed a lot of tutorial videos on CZcams. I actually hope to get a video out soon on what settings I use and what I typically do when I'm out shooting with the G7.
Alex, Thank you for the meticulous tutorial! Very useful. I just received my G7! Now I am just waiting for my lenses to come in. :) Very excited to shoot some time lapses, however, I know I need a tripod. Could you recommend some affordable tripods that fit well for the G7? Also maybe a tripod good for film as well? thank you!!
I use Benro. I have an A48FDS4 Monopod and a cheap, but sturdy Benro tripod that they don't sell anymore. I figured since the S4 head itself costs $169, might as well she'll out the extra $30 and get a monopod with it as well. Hope that helps!
Thank you so much great tutorial are you just using a standard battery? I have an adapter for the G7 for longer shots,, but obviously that's not gonna work in the wilderness
Dude what a great tutorial! I will definitely try this. Is there a way on the g7 to have like 2 complete modes so I could easily switch from time lapse back to vlogging for instance without having to mess with the menus and dials over and over?
Hi, this is is very nice tutorial 👍, btw can we shoot until 4 or 5 minutes in bulb mode? Because I have lumix gm1 n gm5 , the bulb mode maximum only 60 second, thank you for your attention 😊
I have extensively used the GH4 and i love the camera!! Planning to go for a G7. To anyone with a G7 and 14-140 mm kit lens. QUESTION - If you shoot a video with this lens does it Jitter???? Please let me know. The more answers the better! Thank you all
Hi Naresh, Bought this beautiful little camera recently, from the research I did the kit lenses didn't have image stabilization built in (though I could be wrong). I purchased the 14-42mm lense (off the top of my head) with great image stabilization, no jitters, just normal hand movement vs shaky hands. The 20mm Prime lense I purchased doesn't have the same stabilization and whilst the image quality is great, the jittering is off-putting (though perfect for a video I was shooting). So in short, look for a better lense if making the jump. I'm still playing around a lot with it, but so far very impressed. Oh and Alexander, thanks for the insights on TimeLapse - currently shooting a test night shot in terrible light (no moon or any real stars from where I'm based). Cheers
Hey Moshi.. I brought the camera too with the 14-42 lens.. Great little camera! I additionally went for the 42.5 mm 1.8 lens and i think its a fabulous investments (250$). It gives you near about the same quality as does the 1500$ worth Leica 42.5 1.2 mm. To those planning to go for a G7, please keep in mind where you are going to use it and accordingly opt for the PAL or NTSC version.. That is one department where the camera or rather Panasonic sucks.. Why couldn't it give both form options like it did for the GH4? Cheers
watching this video make me think that te g7 could be a nice camera for astro photography as well. Im going to buy my first interchangeable lens camera and im between the olympus omd em 10 or the panasonic g7 I dont know which one to buy . Both are second hand slightly used with double kit lens. I like to shoot landscapes, street photography, sunsets and twilight as well as starred nights. Id like to shoot milky way and star trails. Panasonic has better video capabilities and 4k pics + post focus, however olympus has 3 axis ibis and live composite for long exposure. What do you think?
If you're doing a timelapse where there's a significant change in light you may want to shoot in aperture priority mode with manual ISO, however it may cause flickering, so it's best to shoot it in raw and then do postprocessing with lightroom + LRTimelapse (lrtimelapse can remove flickering and animate lightroom settings). The last step is to then export the edited RAW photos to JPEG images and turn them into a video by putting them in a sequence with video editing software
I have seen your G80 videos. So since G80 is an upgraded G7, you should be able to try similar settings and achieve the same right? And btw did you have any luck shooting milky way or finding some info on that? I have been looking for that as well. I am on a fence to get the G80 or the sony a6500. I wanna do some astrophotography on the side too. There 's some info on sony alpha on google how to do it plus bigger sensor= i am thinking more light= better milky way. But i dont even know if G80 can do that. Technically i am guessing it should right?- but nobody has reported doing/ trying that.
Firstly this video is really helpfull so thank you and secondly, Whats the make/ modle of the pancake lens (I love timelapses and really want to do night timelapses :) ) you're videos are awesome :)
I almost forgot, did you see my Voiktlander video? It's $1000, but it has a crazy f0.95 which, when wide open, is perfect for nightlapses. czcams.com/video/zLIc0n9K8Pk/video.html
Great video Aleander thanks for sharing.. Question I have tried many ways but the menu will not allow me into the Long shutter NR Option on the menu.. Is there a sequence to access this ???
My G7 is not shooting any time lapse. I followed all of your steps but when it comes time to press the shutter release, only a single photo is taken. I used to have a Panasonic G6 which was great for time lapse but that camera died. So now, I'm forced to use the G7 but I cannot get the time lapse function to work. Edit: Looks like the time lapse feature on this camera only works sometimes. Seems to be temperamental. I never had issues shooting time lapse with the G6. I think what I'll do is order one of those cheap Chinese time lapse units that you plug into the camera. I used to use one of those with my G2. That should allow me to shoot hassle free time lapse on the G7.
Hello. I shot 9 pictures in Timelapse mode but unfortunately video stops playing (or continues playing without changing pictures) after 2 or 3 pictures Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Thanks beforeand.
I bought the LUMIX G7 because of your amazing tutorials!!!!!!!!!
PLEEEEEEEASE make more tutorials for this camera, I cant find anything!
3:49 gave me chills ... Ommmmggg how beautiful 😢❤️
my friend, these are GLORIOUS!!!!!!
Im getting ready (gearing up) to buy a G7 to get things rolling and this is making me so excited!
I came here to check hows timelapse quality of G7 before buying, 🙋
after watching this video, I am giving a shot 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks brother
We need more on the G7.. your tutorial was on point. 📽📸
Thank you!
Alexander, thank you so much for this excellent tutorial. More G7 tips please.
Thanks for making such a well detailed tutorial! I’m new to cinematography and photography and I feel like I have quite a bit to master on my G7 and I really enjoyed your walkthrough.
Thank you!
Just got mine with the 14-140 lens today, loving it so far :)
awesome video! I don't have any camera but you are one of 100 people who has no problem to teach others. Thumps up !
Great Video. I was in Zion Nationalpark in Oktober 2018. also with my Lumix G70. And i also did some nice time lapses. Man, that video brings back memories... :)
Cheers! Very useful video. Thanks! You could take it a step further. Shooting your images in the max photo settings does not take away sides, 16:9 takes away the top and bottom! After timelapsing in the max photo setting you do not make a video in cam, but take all the RAW images and proces them with LR-Timelapse method. Then you have much more accessible dynamic range and cropping options. All with the option to animate those. LRT also has functions to get rid of flickering and instability. It is a bit more work and a steep learning curve but the results can be stunning because you have that RAW dynamic range you can acces. Thanks again for this clip. And oh... 5600K is daylight. 5700 is a bit too cool. No problems as long you don't have skintones in the image.
Thanks! I've never heard of the tool but you've got my attention. I just find it convenient to be able to generate the movie in the camera. In the past I used GoPro's movie software to stitch them together.
Yeah it is definitely convenient. But you lose all the RAW power those pictures have because the camera compresses it into that clip. Think of it as playing in Lightroom with a RAW file but have control over the hundreds of pictures in a few simple clicks.
what is lrt?
Super helpful tutorial! I just bought a G85 and this was perfect for me.
Thank you!
Just purchased this camera from B&H in New York. Very informational tutorial, thanks! This camera is amazing.
Your tutorials are unreal.
Thank you.
Thanks!
i'm getting a G7 next week, really excited to see all these tutorials from you and other youtubers!
Nice job and beautiful timelapses!!!
brilliantly explained video Alexander... thanks :)
never realised the full potential of G7
Crap. Wish I would have watched this before going out tonight. Didn't even think to check the long shutter noise reduction setting. Thanks!
Excellent tutorial. This is a pretty complicated camera for me - I am a little bit of a novice. I am testing it out now on a sunset. I forgot to set the focus to manual though, so we'll see how it turns out.
Well done man, I'm not exactly a noob at this sort of thing, but you did a great job laying it out.
We're planning on buying this camera for our coming music videos!
The g7 is my favorite camera nice features for the price.
Beautiful pictures
Awesome video Alex, I'm new to photography and its hard to find a good G7 tutorial, so I really appreciate your work!
Such a helpful and straight to the point video. Thank you
Some beautiful timelapse shots there.
Nice. I enjoyed this video and the possibilities of doing some milky way time-lapses when I buy a G7 :)
Great tutorial! You go over a lot of stuff others skip. I have a G85 but find G4 and G7, GX7 content applicable so subscribed! Thanks.
Alex, thank you very informative, and very effective teaching style. Enjoyed all the extra tips. Cheers John
Thanks John! The feedback really does mean a lot to me.
Alex
Thank you Alexander!
excellent presentation.
Awesome pictures and video. Thank you so much for sharing to how to's.
Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, no. It's raining tonight's and it's completely overcast. I guess next time in the next 22 years…
+Alexander Thickstun Hello. Which lens did you use? thank you
Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens
thanks for the hard work and effort to make this tutorials , i am about to buy a lens so i start to use what i learned ,by your opinion , can the 25mm f1.7 perform good ? or soul'd i stick with the 20mm f1.7
do I have to redo this every time?
It wont let me change the aspect ration with the Fn2 button help!
great tutorial! you should do more tutorials on the G7, so we can all get the most out of it
I do need to, and I plan to shortly! I unfortunately water damaged my G7, so I have another one on the way. For 2016 my goal is to offer a number of tutorials for people to get the most out of the G7.
+Alexander Thickstun how did you get water damage on your G7?
+supra2k8 I tripped over a cement pylon that was concealed by tall grass. I fell into the wet grass (it rained) and continued to use the camera for the night after only drying it off with my shirt. Unfortunately the water got into the buttons, the lens mount, and inside the electronics, so now I get a garbled image when I turn the camera on. Quite sad, actually...
***** damn that sucks, only if you had the GH4
Thank you!!!! This is my first camera and I've been shooting a lot but this was so helpful thanks again!
I really like this, it is very useful . but 4:3 doesn't really squishes the sides. It does extend the field of view vertically. So if you forget to set it at 16:9 befor shooting. You can crop it later you would get exactly the same result
Amazing .we need more of this
the best time lapse tutorial i've found. ThaNk yoU!
That was invaluable information. Thank you so much Alex.
wow great time lapse shots, I just wonder what kind of lenses do you recommend for night-lapse shots in terms of aperture, what are the minimum requirements?
an lens with aperture under atleast f2.0 would be good and also you want the lens to be extra wide to get a bigger view of space. And also you want the lens focal length to be under 24mm for bigger field of view!
sigma 16mm 1.4
thanks for sharing, your info will be useful to me later when it arrives tomorrow.
Thank you Alex, great video!
Nice time lapses!
Great video, thanks Alex
Thank u so much... good tutorial. i'm G85 user and i think this tutorial work for mine
That was great - very informative. Thanks! I just bought the G7 :-)
Thanks for the awesome tutorial man! definitely going to try out soon
Aweome sir! I can't wait to own mine next month!
Next level !! ❤️😎
To abort the timelapse you press Fn3 but it only works while the last picture taken is being shown and while waiting to take the next picture. With these settings 6 second exposure + 6 second dark exposure = 12 seconds and a 13 second interval that leaves just 1 second when the Fn3 button will work. In actuality you don't even have 1 second. It must be more like 1 millisecond because I was unable to abort. Instead just turn the drive mode dial away from timelapse. It aborts without asking to make a video so you have to do it in another menu.
This is just what I needed to know- thanks!
Great useful tutorial. Thanks.
awesome! great video, and great shots!
Great tutorial! How do you set white balance for night? You have said 5700 for day, but I missed info for night. Cheers!
DUDE love this video, thank you. Just got a G7 and it's maybe already my favorite camera, so small and light but seems to kick ass and does everything I want. What pancake lens are you using?
Nm, just saw your previous comment, thanks again
amazing video
Heya! I loved this tutorial and then subsequently all the other adventures on ur channel... I just bought the G7 and would love to get something like the clarity you get.. is there anything you recommend I do to learn?
My current strategy is just to produce 1 video a week and improve with time... it's really funny - the first time-lapse video you got of you cleaning ur room years ago is basically exactly where I'm at now! The vast progress u made over the years is inspiring!!! :D keep up the good work!!!
I followed a lot of tutorial videos on CZcams. I actually hope to get a video out soon on what settings I use and what I typically do when I'm out shooting with the G7.
amazing timelapses! great job!
You cannot turn on Long Shutter Noise Reduction and you cannot select 6 second exposures if electronic shutter is selected. FYI
Alex,
Thank you for the meticulous tutorial! Very useful. I just received my G7! Now I am just waiting for my lenses to come in. :) Very excited to shoot some time lapses, however, I know I need a tripod. Could you recommend some affordable tripods that fit well for the G7? Also maybe a tripod good for film as well? thank you!!
I use Benro. I have an A48FDS4 Monopod and a cheap, but sturdy Benro tripod that they don't sell anymore. I figured since the S4 head itself costs $169, might as well she'll out the extra $30 and get a monopod with it as well. Hope that helps!
Thanks bro! From 2020 🙌
Fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing :)
awesome tutorial, thank you so much!!
i love you man. thank you so much for this tutorial
Thank you so much great tutorial are you just using a standard battery?
I have an adapter for the G7 for longer shots,, but obviously that's not gonna work in the wilderness
wow amazing footage.
Awesome! Thanks so much for this video!
what is your go-to lens for timelapse? thanks so much for the great, easy to understand tutorial, man!
Robb Zbacnik m
Great stuff man
Thanks!
wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
Wow still helpful todate. 👌
Dude what a great tutorial! I will definitely try this.
Is there a way on the g7 to have like 2 complete modes so I could easily switch from time lapse back to vlogging for instance without having to mess with the menus and dials over and over?
Thank you for a great tutorial.
Great tutorial!
So cool.
How long u make timelapse milkyway? 1, 2 or 3 hours?
Great video! Still using my G7 today! What is the lens you are using at @3:15 ? Awesome shot!
Very helpful
This is awesome. Thanks dude
Hi, this is is very nice tutorial 👍, btw can we shoot until 4 or 5 minutes in bulb mode? Because I have lumix gm1 n gm5 , the bulb mode maximum only 60 second, thank you for your attention 😊
Great video! Do you use the Electronic or Mechanical shutter? Thanks!
thanks for this video! Make more for g7, please!
Wow that was amazing! Can't wait to try by myself. Are you using kit lens?
that was awesome.
I have extensively used the GH4 and i love the camera!! Planning to go for a G7.
To anyone with a G7 and 14-140 mm kit lens. QUESTION - If you shoot a video with this lens does it Jitter???? Please let me know. The more answers the better! Thank you all
Hi Naresh,
Bought this beautiful little camera recently, from the research I did the kit lenses didn't have image stabilization built in (though I could be wrong). I purchased the 14-42mm lense (off the top of my head) with great image stabilization, no jitters, just normal hand movement vs shaky hands. The 20mm Prime lense I purchased doesn't have the same stabilization and whilst the image quality is great, the jittering is off-putting (though perfect for a video I was shooting).
So in short, look for a better lense if making the jump. I'm still playing around a lot with it, but so far very impressed.
Oh and Alexander, thanks for the insights on TimeLapse - currently shooting a test night shot in terrible light (no moon or any real stars from where I'm based).
Cheers
Hey Moshi..
I brought the camera too with the 14-42 lens.. Great little camera! I additionally went for the 42.5 mm 1.8 lens and i think its a fabulous investments (250$). It gives you near about the same quality as does the 1500$ worth Leica 42.5 1.2 mm.
To those planning to go for a G7, please keep in mind where you are going to use it and accordingly opt for the PAL or NTSC version.. That is one department where the camera or rather Panasonic sucks.. Why couldn't it give both form options like it did for the GH4?
Cheers
watching this video make me think that te g7 could be a nice camera for astro photography as well.
Im going to buy my first interchangeable lens camera and im between the olympus omd em 10 or the panasonic g7
I dont know which one to buy . Both are second hand slightly used with double kit lens. I like to shoot landscapes, street photography, sunsets and twilight as well as starred nights. Id like to shoot milky way and star trails.
Panasonic has better video capabilities and 4k pics + post focus, however olympus has 3 axis ibis and live composite for long exposure.
What do you think?
Outstanding tutorial, if the cam is In manua mode during a sunset though won't the darkening light create exposure problems?
If you're doing a timelapse where there's a significant change in light you may want to shoot in aperture priority mode with manual ISO, however it may cause flickering, so it's best to shoot it in raw and then do postprocessing with lightroom + LRTimelapse (lrtimelapse can remove flickering and animate lightroom settings). The last step is to then export the edited RAW photos to JPEG images and turn them into a video by putting them in a sequence with video editing software
thanks so much for this iv been searching high and low for a tutorial for the g80, don't know why there isn't more info on this?
I have seen your G80 videos. So since G80 is an upgraded G7, you should be able to try similar settings and achieve the same right? And btw did you have any luck shooting milky way or finding some info on that? I have been looking for that as well. I am on a fence to get the G80 or the sony a6500. I wanna do some astrophotography on the side too. There 's some info on sony alpha on google how to do it plus bigger sensor= i am thinking more light= better milky way. But i dont even know if G80 can do that. Technically i am guessing it should right?- but nobody has reported doing/ trying that.
thanks for the awesome tips
Firstly this video is really helpfull so thank you and secondly, Whats the make/ modle of the pancake lens (I love timelapses and really want to do night timelapses :) ) you're videos are awesome :)
Thanks! Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens.
***** thanks :)
I almost forgot, did you see my Voiktlander video? It's $1000, but it has a crazy f0.95 which, when wide open, is perfect for nightlapses.
czcams.com/video/zLIc0n9K8Pk/video.html
+Alexander Thickstun ahh yes I did some time far in the future I will definitely make that investment!
Great video! Super helpful, can you tell me what the lens your using is? Thanks!
Well done! :-)
I just bought this camera and astrophotographraphy is something I am really interested in. Can you tell me what all of the settings were on the camera
Me too!
That was the point of the video.... V__V
when i press Fn4, it comes up saying aperture effect: on shutter speed effect: off.
how do i turn off aperture effect?
Great video Aleander thanks for sharing.. Question I have tried many ways but the menu will not allow me into the Long shutter NR Option on the menu.. Is there a sequence to access this ???
have you figured out why? Im having the same issue
Love your video. But I hate it when other car's headlight enters my screen when I tried to do time laps shots at night.
My G7 is not shooting any time lapse. I followed all of your steps but when it comes time to press the shutter release, only a single photo is taken. I used to have a Panasonic G6 which was great for time lapse but that camera died. So now, I'm forced to use the G7 but I cannot get the time lapse function to work.
Edit: Looks like the time lapse feature on this camera only works sometimes. Seems to be temperamental. I never had issues shooting time lapse with the G6. I think what I'll do is order one of those cheap Chinese time lapse units that you plug into the camera. I used to use one of those with my G2. That should allow me to shoot hassle free time lapse on the G7.
The black sky was filmed with which camera... im considering the g7 but im not seen any really dark starry sky video
Hello. I shot 9 pictures in Timelapse mode but unfortunately video stops playing (or continues playing without changing pictures) after 2 or 3 pictures Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? Thanks beforeand.