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Deleting a range of unwanted photos on the Panasonic G7 camera?

Started Aug 24, 2018 | Discussions thread
alcelc
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Brisn5757 wrote:

There is a feature on the Panasonic G7 camera called POST FOCUS (I think that's what it's called) which creates about 30 photos at different focus points. The photographer then chooses one or more photos to keep. The only problem is that you have a lot of unwanted photos to delete.

Unless you export all of the frames from the post focus file ( which is just a single MP4 video file), then you will have to delete a lot of them. I assume you will only extract the right shots but not all of them?

Does anyone know of a quick way to delete a range of unwanted photos on the camera?

In Playback mode, hit delete, a menu asks delete single or multiple. Select Multiple, tap on the unwanted images, and hit delete again will do.

The same thing happens when your using the rapid fire option to take a lot of photos with in a few seconds then select which photo to keep.

I'd avoided using these options as it uses up more space on the media card if the unwanted photos are not deleted.

As said, just a single MP4 file, no different from taking a very short video clip of seconds in length only.

These are for very specific application (catch fast moving object, moment of incident happening, focus stacking etc) and might not be used every day. However they can add a lot of fun to our usual shooting, and also open up the door for something a consumer grade camera can't do in the past.

I know that you can fit a lot on a media card such as 32 GB or 64 GB card but you might want to take more then a few POST FOCUS or rapid fire type photos which would use up the media card faster if some of the photos were not deleted.

If use 4K Photo modes, it will end up with a MP4 file only. If by normal burst shooting, yes, we shall have a lot of similar images. In fact last trip I took around 1200 shots using Auto Exposure Bracketing (5 or 7 shots) for HDR. Also some 100+ shots for panonorma. Luckily I kept them all, downloaded to my computer and will be deleted after merging/stitching them into HDR/panorama.

Brian

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