Daylight scenery images

Hi everyone, I am a newbie here so many thanks indeed for providing this excellent forum I am hoping to make good use of.

Having owned several chunky great SLR's in the past, such a Nikon F2, that I hardly ever took away on long trips, I wanted camera with interchangeable lenses, good flexibility and versatility that was compact enough to fit in a pocket if necessary. Having nearly all my money locked up in property and being a pensioner I wasn't able to spend much on photographic tackle and I was tired of the difficulties my TZ60 was giving me on long range zoom shots, so I invested in a used GX7 which will hopefully soon become a GX8.

My main area of interest is scenery and outdoor photography of all kinds such as the  NZ image below. I assume a number of you people are of like mind, so if you would be so kind as to let me know the best GX7 camera setting for this type of shot I would be very grateful.

If you shoot RAW, better try to have max light anytime. IMHO it is the best technique for the better image (noise control) of crop sensor. Otherwise you might find noise in blue sky at base ISO.

If you shoot SOOC jpg, might consider Vivid mode, plus optimal exposure it might produce very punchy, colourful, well contrast landscape output. However, it is not great for portrait having certain PP in mind.

GX7 is not as easy as later models (e.g. GX85 or GX9) to determine its exposure behaviour. On GX85, under zebra it is easy to confirm its -2/3ev under exposure tendency (to protect highlight). Hence at 0ev metering they often under exposed such that result nosier and flatter output. Add back 2/3ev could give a very different look to the result. On my rough testing, GX7 has a tendency between 1/3ev to 2/3ev underexposed. You might have to test for the optimal understanding of your camera.

With sufficient light, GX7 can do good at ISO1600.

If you shoot SOOC jpg, it is also advisable to test on the NR setting to find the best balance between fine detail and noise control. Too agresive NR setting plus improper NR in PP result result very ugly noise result.

I am still shooting with GX7 happily.

My 2 cents.

For scenery pictures, according to this link https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-201344-1.html the GX7 has this nice feature that helps ensure infinity focus in MF : the focus distance bar becomes red at hyperfocal distance. I have used that feature on another Panasonic camera (TZ90) and find it quite useful.

Didier