paleodawg
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Hello all,
I know tethered shooting is pretty niche, but on paper the G9 should be pretty much the king at this. It has the crop sensor for macro, the HiRes, and autofocus wizardry that should blow away the competition.
But it doesn’t work well…:-|
Panasonic are newcomers to the tethered shooting game. They have the potential for making the G9 the end-all for tethered shooting, but the Lumix Tether software is holding it back. It misses core functionalities like a decent live view as well as several other things. I am going to write to Panasonic about my experiences and how they could improve things. The purpose of this thread is to show my list of improvements and to gather ideas.
Who knows, we might get lucky and a future firmware update can include some of these changes. With Panasonic going FF they may need to get their tether game sorted soon anyway.
To get the ball rolling I am putting together a list of wants and needs to improve Lumix Tether on the G9. If anyone else has improvement suggestions I will add them to the list.
Here is my list of things I could find that are either missing necessities, bugs, or improvements to existing things:
1. Increase liveview resolution greatly (most important). The current resolution is far too small to assess critical sharpness. Make liveview viewable in different resolutions.
2. Reduce lag/increase performance of lumix tether (also important). I’m getting a lot of lag when operating Lumix tether. Putting shutter/aperture preview on reduces the already-poor frame rate.
3. Improvements to funtionality (add these to the PC function so we don't need to keep reaching for the camera to change settings):
I know tethered shooting is pretty niche, but on paper the G9 should be pretty much the king at this. It has the crop sensor for macro, the HiRes, and autofocus wizardry that should blow away the competition.
But it doesn’t work well…:-|
Panasonic are newcomers to the tethered shooting game. They have the potential for making the G9 the end-all for tethered shooting, but the Lumix Tether software is holding it back. It misses core functionalities like a decent live view as well as several other things. I am going to write to Panasonic about my experiences and how they could improve things. The purpose of this thread is to show my list of improvements and to gather ideas.
Who knows, we might get lucky and a future firmware update can include some of these changes. With Panasonic going FF they may need to get their tether game sorted soon anyway.
To get the ball rolling I am putting together a list of wants and needs to improve Lumix Tether on the G9. If anyone else has improvement suggestions I will add them to the list.
Here is my list of things I could find that are either missing necessities, bugs, or improvements to existing things:
1. Increase liveview resolution greatly (most important). The current resolution is far too small to assess critical sharpness. Make liveview viewable in different resolutions.
2. Reduce lag/increase performance of lumix tether (also important). I’m getting a lot of lag when operating Lumix tether. Putting shutter/aperture preview on reduces the already-poor frame rate.
3. Improvements to funtionality (add these to the PC function so we don't need to keep reaching for the camera to change settings):
- HiRes. Hi-Res needs to be available through the lumix tether program instead of needing to activate it through the camera at the start of every session.
- Bracketing and Focus stacking. Need bracketing and focus stacking through the PC screen.
- Min/max focus distance button. This is needed because at the moment it takes too long to reach min focus distance.
- Autofocus on/off button. Please add so that you don’t need to fidget with camera to do this.
- Manual focus. Allow focusing through the PC at all times (not just when dial is turned to MF). This is essential for fine tuning focus.
- HiRes+focus stacking mode. Consider a mode that combines HiRes with focus stacking and carries this out automatically along set parameters. This is necessary because HiRes Macro shots only work with big apertures like f2.8 to f5, thereby limiting dof.
- Time lapse. Option could be useful.
- Focus peaking. Onscreen button for turning on/off focus peaking is needed. At the moment you need to turn the dial to MF for this.
- IS button on/off. Doesn’t exist but needs to.
- Click shutter: Could use option to operate shutter by clicking on the screen in the same way the camera has a touch shutter option.
- Post focus/4k/6k modes. Would not mind being able to control this through PC screen.
- PASM. Allow cycling through PASM modes via pc, instead of needing to turn the dial.
- Quick scrolling settings. When changing ss, aperture or ISO, one needs to click, scroll, and click again to change a setting. It would be speedier if there was no need to click and you could change the settings by mouse-over and scrolling. (Canon eos utility does this well)
- Zoom In Scale. I find myself using “Zoom In Scale” a lot, but I keep needing to turn it on and off because having it on blocks the changing of settings like aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. This needs to get fixed so you can freely change settings with it turned on.
- Save last used settings. At the moment, every time you start up, the aperture, ss and ISO are at a default setting.
- Preview button: This is a useful function to see the exposure, but it turns off whenever taking a photograph. This needs to be fixed so it stays at whatever was selected until another order is issued.