Adusting the exposure when video recording on the Panasonic G7 camera

El Jeffe wrote:

Brisn5757 wrote:

El Jeffe wrote:

First of all get a neutral density filter on your lens so you don’t have to use f/16 in bright light. Then you can make exposure adjustments to the aperture manually or shoot in shutter priority mode for auto aperture.

There are also variable ND filters, but they do weird things to color.

I suggest on old legacy lens with manual aperture ring. You can get them “de-clicked” for smooth aperture changes. Some lens adapters have an aperture control ring built in as well.

I'd need a variable ND filter to make adjustments as I record video but if they do weird things to colour then they are of no use to me.

The biggest problem when recording video in the manual mode is sudden changing in light, such as panning to a dark area.

The G7 has many features and can be custom setup so I was hoping to either find a way to use auto ISO or set up one of the cameras control wheels to be used to adjust the aperture or ISO setting.

It was useful when older lens have a ring to adjust the aperture but old lens are hard to find and most use the camera settings for aperture exposure.

Brian

Don’t know where you come from but old lenses are very easy to find where I am.
I often shoot live theater performance where light is constantly changing. Everything is completely manual. Shutter speed is fixed and does not change. That leaves ISO, and aperture to work with. I use the fastest lens possible to keep the ISO low as possible. I adjust exposure with aperture sometimes from f/1.2 to f/11 in one show.

For video I'd need zoom lens of at least 10x zoom which reduces the chance of finding old lens with a aperture ring.

Brian