Image download software for Lumix cameras

I'm new to the Lumix world, having just purchased a ZS100. My other cameras were/are Canon or Nikon models.  Those cameras came packaged with handy applications for downloading photos to a PC.  Such apps provide more-or-less one button functionality that will download all new photos (those not previously downloaded) to a folder automatically named with either the shooting or download date.  In the case of Nikon, the app is also a raw viewer and provides the ability to tag photos with a score (like number of stars) that can later be used to filter them in apps like PS.

I'm not finding where Panasonic provides such an app for the Lumix cameras.  Am I missing something?  What to Lumix users use for this purpose?

Welcome to the forum.

In days of old, the software was an included CD. Now it has to be downloaded PhotoFunStudio (PFS) for transfer, viewing of all files. Not sure about marking favourites, probably, as I don’t use it for that. All else it does well andI use the version associated with the latest Panasonic camera I own and manage transfer for several Panasonics. For PP / conversion of RAW use SilkyPix, again a download. You should find reference to the above in your Basic manual. Download the more detailed Advanced Manual from the Panasonic website, under Support.

Try Faststone Image Viewer V 6.6 available free to download here:

http://faststone.org/

Tom

wfages wrote:

Hello. I realise I am replying to an old post, but for me this camera (Panasonic DMC TZ80) is still a very big deal, so I am very interested in this subject. Most of you probably have a new camera! I bought it to take on a safari in August 2018. After downloading those images, my external storage became defunct, then my computer became obsolete, and I could not ever edit them. I bought huge memory cards and stored images there. Now that I have a new PC I can download again, but theres a problem. Not only do I need to choose a photo editing software, I need to learn how to trim these Post Focus (4K?) shots into single PDF images.

Three years have passed since Jagladden brought up the which photo management application is best question. Are those answers still good, PFS and that other suggestion (afraid I may lose this text to see it!) or must I cull through todays's thirty-odd options?

PFS is likely to be your best bet to organise, mine is set to create a folder for each day's images. I use the same PFS for all cameras, with a top-level folder for each camera. When transferring from the card (via card reader), I select the appropriate camera folder, PFS then creates a folder for each day (you'd need to set this in preferences). PFS will allow you to see the 4Post-focus files. I wouldn't delete the images from the cards until you are happy that you can achieve all you want on the PC. Worst-case scenario is that you put the cards back into the camera to perform your Post-focus merging in-camera, then save and transfer the output file(s) to the PC. I can't remember if PFS will do the Post-focus merge for you on the PC - suspect that it does.

For general image editing, there are many free products, Faststone is certainly quite useful for Jpeg.  The free version of Silkypix works fine if you need RAW PP.

of the operating system? We don't need any specific software to do this

Just create a folder on your hard disk, in a name you prefer, then use either Copy/Paste or Cut/Paste, or by the drag and drop to download the files (photo and video, Post Focus is a video file) to such folder.

*Note, stacking output from post focus file is easiest to do it in camera. Extract frames from MP4 file to do stacking is not easy job.

I don't use PFS or other similar software because of their proprietary folder system. Once if we mess up with the system, the software can't locate the files.

In my case, I use Windows PC, so the Windows Explorer is my tool. I have 3 internal hard disks on my computer. I set a Partition called Photo on E: drive, and setup sub folders in time & event name, e.g. "2021-11-26 Xmas party", then keep all photos & video taken from that event there.

So, all shooting sessions are sorting by their shooting date.

The free FastStone is a good image viewer with basic editing tools and renaming ability. I use it to rename every photos by "YYDDMM HHMMSS XXX" for permanent storage (XXX is camera model).

My 2 cents.

Hello...

Thank you for all these download software for the Lumix cameras.

Happy Thanksgiving to all and we are still celebrating. 

wfages wrote:

Hi Albert,

The PF must have been set accidentally and I only discovered it after downloading on my computer. There were 2414 photos and a good 30% are one second videos. They did go straight on the cloud, but even so. It was the first thing I really did on my new computer, plus a few applications to manage other stuff I do but in a matter of 2 days took all my hard drive memory as I could not edit and organise without downloading to Google photos (I only took a weeks worth, 90% are Post focused, they are heavy files.) The PF photos seem altogether impossible to edit, yet I can't get anywhere unless I convert each one to JPG. That's my objective. You're saying that would be at least possible on my camera 😳. I hope it's not necessary! I would surely go nuts attempting it on a tiny screen with the limited instruction.

Goodness.

I do not use Google Photo, but doubt it can handle Post Focus output because PF indeed is a 1 to few seconds length of 4K video @30fps. i.e., a 1" footage has 30 frames in it.

To edit PF output indeed need a video editor, not a photo editor.

To edit each frame of the footage you can extract frames into JPG then handle them like ordinary photo. You might consider the "Free Video to JPG Converter" to do the extraction.

Or use the in-camera Focus Stacking feature of your camera, do automatic merging into 1 JPG ( which won't take much time to do it), then do further editing on your computer like any ordinary JPG. You will face 2K photos rather than 2K x 30 or more photos of these PF footage.