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Panasonic G7 Video Help for Work!

Started Jul 25, 2018 | Discussions thread
OP johnpatrickbishop Regular Member • Posts: 276
Re: Panasonic G7 Video Help for Work!

If practical, fix the focus (should be feasible for interview situation). Don't worry about shutter angle for static subjects. More DOF will help relieve focus issues.

Hindesite... I did my first test run today. I did one take where I just manually focused using focus peaking and about f5 and just left it there. The interviewee was just sitting in a chair, but moving around a bit. It was OK but not the sharpest as the interviewee moved around. I also did another take where I used the face detection, and at its best it was very in focus, but it did hunt a bunch even with little movements from the interviewee.

Should I be dialing in more like f8 or using a different type of focus mode in the camera? Any thoughts?

I will also confess that shutter angle has not been something I've been thinking about... Not even sure what it is! Off to google.

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