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Today we're going to learn about the BGS1 that's the battery grip for the
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Lumix S1 and S1R
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We're gonna start off with how this
mounts on because there's a neat little
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trick that you may not have noticed
unless you read the manual obviously
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it's just gonna screw on to the bottom
there's double tiny little tricks in
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here
first let's take a look at the bottom of
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the camera here you'll notice that there
is this little rubber door rubber flap
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and that is where this is going to
connect to we need to peel that off it
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it completely removes and there's the
point of contact for the grip and you're
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thinking what am I going to do with this
thing I know what I'm gonna do with it
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I'm going to lose it because that is
exactly the kind of thing that you would
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do with it a little part like that and
then you take this part the actual grip
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itself and you'll see that there is a
cover on here to protect these precious
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little pins the pins that are gonna
connect to that bottom part of the
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camera and you've got this little cover
and you're thinking well that's just
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great what are we going to do with this
I know exactly what I can do this same
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that you did with this
I'm gonna lose them no you're not
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because there is not only a storage
place for the cap there's also a storage
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place for the little rubber door if we
take a very close look at the door here
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you'll notice there is a little
illustration that lines up with this
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little tab right there and that tells
you that these go together like so and
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now look your rubber cap is stored
inside of the cap for the battery grip
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itself so now you take this and it
stores into here there we go
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snaps into place it sits flush and you
now have a nice safe storage location
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for the cap and the rubber door the
reason you don't want to lose that
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rubber door is because that rubber door
provides weather sealing to the bottom
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of your S1 or S1R you don't want to
make your camera no longer weather
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sealed and if that's off it's not of
course once you put the grip on to it
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then it's weather sealed again but if
you're gonna take it off you don't want
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to lose that rubber door at this point
is pretty straightforward just mount
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this thing onto here there is a screw
mount on the back little locking screw
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you just thread that thing into place
get that all nice and snug on there and
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that's all there is to that now let's
talk about putting the batteries in so
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you've got a battery door on the top
here open that up you've got your
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battery door on there and there's a
little hole in here right here that pops
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open so that a cable can go through so
if you wanted to you could put a dummy
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battery in here thread the cable through
that hole so this thing could run
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basically forever and ever and not too
many people probably going to do that
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because you do have USB
charging you can actually power the
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camera from USB-C so I don't know how
many people are gonna use that but if
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you're gonna use it it's there if you do
use it you do want to make sure that you
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close this door when you when you're
done with it because again weather
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sealing is really important if this door
is open water could get in there and
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I'll also tell you that getting this
rubber door back in it's a little tricky
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you can you got to pull it from the back
it's like pulling the thread out of a
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sweater you know it's kind of pulled out
you got to reach in behind him now let's
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pop a battery in here interesting point
you can use two batteries in here
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obviously or you can use one you can
have a battery in just in this grip or
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just in the external grip either way
it's up to you maybe you only have one
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battery and you just using the grip
because you like the vertical grip on
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there you don't have to have a battery
in both places and cool point is you can
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have the battery in either one of them
so for most people I think if you're
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using one battery you're gonna store it
in here because that means of course
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then when the battery dies you can
easily get to it to pop it out and
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replace it but if you are constantly
taking the grip on and off and just
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because you wanna have a vertical grip
and you're not so concerned about having
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to take this off to swap out the battery
then you can store it in the handle
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inside as well either way is up to you
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show all right let's plug in the USB
charger 'cause I want to show you something
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about that as well see on the top of the
display here that it now says that it's
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charging and you can see the status of
both batteries on there you see the
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internal one is fully charged and the
battery grip one is in the process of
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charging and you can also control which
battery is going to get used first you
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go to the wrench settings and then this
one that says in/out it's a little box
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with almost a kind of a Wi-Fi signal on
there and then just go down to battery
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use priority and you can set the
priority to the battery grip or the body
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which one do you want it to use first
most people are going to choose to have
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the battery grip is the default one that
way when the battery grip battery dies
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you can pull it out and swap it out and
it
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automatically switch over to the
internal one even if you're shooting
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video live shooting video when the
external battery the one of the better
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grip dies it will carry over
automatically to the internal one
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seamlessly no dropping the video you can
pop that out and replace it with a fresh
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battery which is a really nice feature
to be able to do but if for any reason
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you wanted to choose to use the body
first you can do that as well while
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we're in here I'll show you this there's
a little battery information option in
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here when you pull that up it tells you
the status and the health of your
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batteries these are both brand-new
batteries of course so they're full
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green while you've got two batteries in
here according to these stats you can
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get about 660 photos on the S1R and
about 720 on the S1 now I haven't tested
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that and it actually seems a little on
the low side and I'm gonna guess that
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Panasonic's being pretty conservative on
that 'cause these are pretty big batteries
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obviously they're pretty big cameras as
well but I think you probably get a
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little bit more than that but I have not
tested it so you take that with a grain
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of salt that is what it is now let's
take a look at the tripod socket on the
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bottom because this has a nice little
extra feature on there as well it has a
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pin that's an anti rotation pin for your
tripod place so if you have a plate like
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this one this is a Manfrotto plate it's
got this pin on there then when you put
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these in align those up on there and
start to tighten that down so now I
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haven't tightened it it's just barely
tied on there but now you can see the
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plate will not rotate so that's an anti
rotation pin which is definitely a good
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thing to have on there and then we get
into the buttons on the on the grip
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itself this power button is not going to
power the camera itself on and off this
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is a power switch for the grip so you
still have the power switch on the top
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of the camera that you would use to turn
the camera itself on and off but by
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having a separate power switch for the
grip that means that you won't
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accidentally trigger the camera from the
buttons here or bump into the buttons
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here if you're not using them obviously
when you're holding it like this they're
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out of your way but it's easy enough to
accidentally hit them so if that's
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something you're running into you have
the ability to turn that off there the
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rest of the buttons on here are
essentially repeats of what you find on
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the camera itself so you've got on here
your front dial of course the shutter
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you have a white balance ISO button over
and under exposure there's that power
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button again and the rear command dial
so front command dial and rear command
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dial both recreated on there if we flip
it over this side you'll see you have
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your auto focus on button you have over
here the joystick from
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the focus point around which is a full
rotation as well as a push in joystick
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and then you have a customizable
function button on here as well and that
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customizable function button by default
is set up to be the Q menu but like all
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the function buttons on your lumix
camera you can reprogram that to do
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whatever you want go to the gear menu
and operation one page Fn button set go
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to the record mode you'll see now at the
bottom of the display there we are
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seeing a little better grip on there and
I can tap on that Fn there and set that
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to whatever I want not a complex product
but but it has some nice little
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functions on it I love the fact that you
can store the cap and the cover inside
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of the grip itself so you're never going
to lose that I like that it has the
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locking pin for your tripod plate on the
bottom and of course that it recreates
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all the buttons you're gonna need so
that when you are shooting in a vertical
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orientation you've got access to all the
right buttons we're gonna jump into the
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live Q&A next if you are watching live
stick around for that if you're not
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watching live then the Q&A will pop up
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