Panasonic G7 Shading Compensation

I have not fully understood this camera's feature.
Does it have an effect on the photo taken by the camera or is it an aid when using the cameras monitor.

Correct me if I'm wrong but when I first saw the feature in the camera's menu I thought it was to lighten the shadows in the darker areas of the scene on a bright sunny day.

Brian

Gnine wrote:

Okay, I'll correct you. At larger aperture settings, the light entering your lens does not illuminate the sensor in your camera evenly. It's a little bit darker out near the corners of the sensor. What shading compensation does, is automatically brighten up the outer corners/edges of the photo, giving a more even & consistent brightness over the whole of the image. Hope that's easy to understand.

I'm not sure if the G7 has the feature, but what you're looking for to lighten up the darker areas/shadows in your image, is called iDynamic. It has a few different levels of strength -for want of a better description. Low, standard, high & auto. Low adds just a little bit of brightness to the shadowed areas, standard a little more, & so on.

Thanks Gnine.

You explained it a lot better than the camera's manual.

Yes my G7 camera does have a i.Dynamic mode with the same settings as in your text.
I might try this on a bright sunny day. I'm not certain the best setting, maybe 'auto' then I can leave it up the the camera to make the best adjustment.
I remember trying this option when experimenting with the camera but I could see very little change in the photo.

Brian

Brisn5757 wrote:

I have not fully understood this camera's feature.
Does it have an effect on the photo taken by the camera or is it an aid when using the cameras monitor.

Correct me if I'm wrong but when I first saw the feature in the camera's menu I thought it was to lighten the shadows in the darker areas of the scene on a bright sunny day.

Brian

If you are strictly talking about the "Shading Compensation" which is an option under the REC Menu, cannot be assigned to any fn keys. it is actually in-camera correction on vignetting. This is at the sole discretion of the camera to apply the correction when the camera thinks fit to do so.

It is either On or Off. I have it always ON.

iDynamic is another thing. Together with iResolution, these 2 features are assignable to any fn keys, and has various setting from Auto, High, Standard... Off. iDynamic is sort of in-camera HDR, automatically applied by the camera when required, but at a much minor effect than the HDR feature (takes 3 shots and auto merging into HDR in-camera).

It is similar to the Gradation of Olympus, DRO (Dynamic Range Optimiser) of Sony or D-Lighting of Nikon, which AFAIK is a playing on the Crvue.

Like iResoultion (sharpening effect), I set both to Standard as default. BTE all these are for SOOC jpg only.

alcelc wrote:

Brisn5757 wrote:

I have not fully understood this camera's feature.
Does it have an effect on the photo taken by the camera or is it an aid when using the cameras monitor.

Correct me if I'm wrong but when I first saw the feature in the camera's menu I thought it was to lighten the shadows in the darker areas of the scene on a bright sunny day.

Brian

If you are strictly talking about the "Shading Compensation" which is an option under the REC Menu, cannot be assigned to any fn keys. it is actually in-camera correction on vignetting. This is at the sole discretion of the camera to apply the correction when the camera thinks fit to do so.

It is either On or Off. I have it always ON.

iDynamic is another thing. Together with iResolution, these 2 features are assignable to any fn keys, and has various setting from Auto, High, Standard... Off. iDynamic is sort of in-camera HDR, automatically applied by the camera when required, but at a much minor effect than the HDR feature (takes 3 shots and auto merging into HDR in-camera).

It is similar to the Gradation of Olympus, DRO (Dynamic Range Optimiser) of Sony or D-Lighting of Nikon, which AFAIK is a playing on the Crvue.

Like iResoultion (sharpening effect), I set both to Standard as default. BTE all these are for SOOC jpg only.

Thanks Albert.

It's useful to know this. 
I'm not good on short hand what is SOOC?

Brian

Brisn5757 wrote:

alcelc wrote:

Brisn5757 wrote:

I have not fully understood this camera's feature.
Does it have an effect on the photo taken by the camera or is it an aid when using the cameras monitor.

Correct me if I'm wrong but when I first saw the feature in the camera's menu I thought it was to lighten the shadows in the darker areas of the scene on a bright sunny day.

Brian

If you are strictly talking about the "Shading Compensation" which is an option under the REC Menu, cannot be assigned to any fn keys. it is actually in-camera correction on vignetting. This is at the sole discretion of the camera to apply the correction when the camera thinks fit to do so.

It is either On or Off. I have it always ON.

iDynamic is another thing. Together with iResolution, these 2 features are assignable to any fn keys, and has various setting from Auto, High, Standard... Off. iDynamic is sort of in-camera HDR, automatically applied by the camera when required, but at a much minor effect than the HDR feature (takes 3 shots and auto merging into HDR in-camera).

It is similar to the Gradation of Olympus, DRO (Dynamic Range Optimiser) of Sony or D-Lighting of Nikon, which AFAIK is a playing on the Crvue.

Like iResoultion (sharpening effect), I set both to Standard as default. BTE all these are for SOOC jpg only.

Thanks Albert.

It's useful to know this.
I'm not good on short hand what is SOOC?

Brian

Straight Out Of Camera, no editing in PP (Post Processing) of any kind.