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Upgrading from GoPro, Seeking advice...

Started Dec 31, 2019 | Discussions thread
brousseb
brousseb Regular Member • Posts: 193
Re: Upgrading from GoPro, Seeking advice...
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A couple of other things to keep in mind with the LX10:

1) AF-C focusing is completely useless for video on this camera, you have to set it to AF-S.

2) You will have to use the back button focus and pre-set the focus before you shoot (and do this before every shot), the focus will jump around if you let the camera decide where to focus.  You might get lucky if it's a static shot.

3) I have the wheel on the top right of the camera set to custom white balance so it takes about 3 clicks to assign a custom white balance at whatever depth I'm at.

4) You can save some time by creating some LUT's on some footage you shoot at 50-60 feet that you've corrected.  It will give you a good starting point for all your clips.

5) If you're using a wet wide angle lens (almost a necessity, given that the LX10 in 4k is 36mm wide + another 30% tighter due to refraction underwater), you will have to stop down to about f5.6 - f8 to get semi sharp corners, at least on my INON uwl-h100, so even though f1.4 is tempting on this camera for low light, everything but the middle of the image will be super soft.

Feel free to ask me any other questions if you have any.

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