LUMIX Direct Focus Area Setting
Photo Moment - July 22, 2016
Learn an incredible way to control focus on the LUMIX cameras.
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There is another gotcha (at least on the Lumiz FZ2500). If you turn the SOUND OFF, the "forced flash" function in which the flash will fire every time the shutter button is pushed (when the flash is up), is DISABLED. So if the shutter sound is off, so is the FORCED FLASH. I was taking pictures at a party, and wanted a silent shutter, but my forced flash stopped working. What a stuoid piece of engineering!
I don’t have that camera so can’t verify, sorry
My direct focus area , when I am using the view-finder…..it shoots off to the top left hand corner of my view in the eyepiece and will not move. Infuriating. I want my focus area in the middle of the screen and I want it to stay in the center, not veer off into the top left hand corner. I have ruined or missed so many good shots because of this….Lumix DC-FZ80. 🥴🥴🙁
Oh my god. This video changed my life lol I feel so stupid. Thank you for this 😂😭😭😭
Thank you, just switched to LUMIX G80 from Canon DSLR and this was driving me crazy.
Ah, thanks! My direct focus area was on, with the result that I couldn't get into macro setting anymore using the cursor button anymore.
I had my Lumix DC FZ82 set up so that the focus box was always in the middle and I am really sure it was always green. I think I touched something by mistake because now it is white until I haf [press the shutter, then it turns green. How can I get it back to being always green, because I can't see it in white. Also, the box has gone tiny so I can't really see it, it is so small. How do I change the size of the box please? Please say it simply because I am no good with tech. Thank you.
I need some help. I have a G95 (coming from a Nikon) and some of these menus feel so foreign to me. All i am trying to do is change my focus so that it's just one point. That's how i have always shot. I just find the one thing i want in focus, put the dot on it, do a half press to focus, then slightly move the camera for the right composition i want, then i take the photo. As it is now, usually 4 or 5 focus boxes are there. I take a lot of photos of birds hiding in trees, and 90% of the time it focuses on the branches and limbs
Looking at a photo of the back of the camera, the focus pattern icon (a square with five dots in it) is to the left of the menu/set button and dial. It looks like if you push that dial on the left side where the dot is (the dial both spins and acts as a four-direction rocker button), that should bring up the AF choices.
Thanks Joseph, so well explained and now the sun has come out, literally and I can get on with my day👍
Hello photo Joseph, don’t know if you still have this camera but did the gx8 have unlimited recording?
Ok this is cool to know, but my issue is that I want to use this focus setting and I want it to be locked in place and if I touch the screen it would stay locked. Now what happens is when I try to take a photo (by traditional way using the viewfinder) I will touch the screen with my face and the focus area will move somewhere else and I don't want it to move at all. How can I lock it? I'm using GX80. I usually just want to keep it right in the center and quite small.
@@photojoseph I was having the same problem on my FZ2500. I found that if I let my nose touch the screen this will activate the focus position (now showing as yellow rectangle) and I can now use the cursor buttons to move the the focus area to where I want ( and just move the camera off my nose of course). As soon as I half press the shutter button the focus square is where I want it and I can now use the cursor arrows on the default settings. So I don't need to change anything in the menus. This, of course, also works if I just touch the screen with my finger. I think that they cover this in the manual but I could not work it out from their explanation. Hope that made sense.
If you have touch enabled, then whenever you touch it, it'll move. What you need to do is either keep your face off the screen by shooting with your other eye (a topic I covered here https://youtu.be/X2_eNRJB-48 ) or if your model supports it, disable the touch screen with an Fn button.
Thanks. I just bought lx100 second hand and couldn't find out how to move the cursor to set the focus point.
You sir are a genius I did this by mistake on my gx9 and couldn’t turn this off for the life of me 😂👍🏻
great quick answer to an annoying problem i caused, thanks
Thanks so much! Really helpful video.
This was driving me crazy. Thank you so much for your simple clarification! Awesome!
Glad to hear it, and you're welcome!
Thank you so much!!! I've been tearing my hair out trying to get the dial to work. It's also great to see I'm not the only person who fell into that hole :)
you are an absolute life saver. Definitely will subscribe. Lumix G7
You're the man! I'm a new owner of a GX85 and this came up today and was driving me crazy. Thanks!
Um just to answer my own question about GF1 - in case anyone else wondering - pushing the Trash/DOF preview button on GF1 while in Direct AF mode re centers the Direct AF
Thanks, helped me sort this on my newly acquired Lumix GF1. BTW do you know of any short cut to centre the focus point when turning the direct focus AF off, apart from just doing it by eye. When you turn it off the point will remain where you left it which is sometimes off centre.
Thanks Joe, just saved me a lot of hassle trying to figure out what was the problem with my Lumix GX80.
Thanks! Just had this issue in my GX85
Nice function to know about...
thanks ,had the same problem on FZ1000
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