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Panasonc G7 camera refused to take a photo

Started Oct 1, 2018 | Discussions thread
Guy Parsons
Guy Parsons Forum Pro • Posts: 40,000
Re: Panasonc G7 camera refused to take a photo

My normal setting is to use small fixed centre spot focus only, then half press to focus, hold, next reframe and shoot, with metering happening at full press. That's for all cameras in my stable.

So for a sunsetty sort of scene I would first probably change from auto WB if using a jpeg only camera (but not for my usual raw+jpeg habit) and get an idea of the metering of the scene and if it needs some exposure compensation applied.

Then do the focus thing as above on some distant detail like the far horizon favouring anything with a contrasty edge that is vertical and definitely not the horizontal horizon as most mirrorless cameras like to have vertical or at least say 45 degrees contrast to focus on.

Trying to focus on clouds is rather chancy so best avoided.

Sometimes it's best to drop back to all manual operation, manual focus included. Rarely really needed though.

Regards..... Guy

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