Hey guys, we're in the cave again. And I just wanted to cover some of the photo functions in a bit more detail. This is a quick and dirty guide to doing photos with the GH five and we're going to go through some photos I've taken out in the field and analyze them but I'm going to share my results here. So for the most part, if you're in a mode which is intelligent auto and you want to take a photo, I recommend leaving the lens on auto. And as far as your autofocus modes AF S is if you have more of a static subject, AFC. You can switch here is more if you have someone who's moving and you want to get their face and then mF is your manual focus.

I found the results to be mixed. When I haven't in the setup, let's just take a photo, for example. And you also have to pay attention to this left wheel here. So if you just want to take a normal single shot, you'll leave it in this icon here with just one rectangle, and then you can take the shot. Now when you're out in the field, there is an icon, it'll turn blue, if that's the optimal conditions for taking the photo. You won't be able to see it here.

Probably because we're underground and it's not natural daylight. But you can go ahead and press the shutter on halfway, you can see the autofocus points and let's just take a look. It's okay. Right and then if we want to review the settings in detail, we can press the splay You can see it's f 2.8, ISO 640 shutter speed 60 a little bit underexposed, so we can try some different setups, I've been experimenting with Aperture Priority so we can change the aperture then it'll make the other decisions. So being in this dark lit area we want f 2.8 so the apertures open Alright, let's just change the display there. It's more or less the same.

I found if you really want to get a great photo, you got to go on manual. And so what I'm going to do is just take a look at the settings here and then I'll make the adjustments so this one was ISO 6400 F 2.0. Eight, so maybe we need a longer shutter speed. And so what I'm going to do is adjust the shutter speed. So it's set to 200. Let's try this.

There we go. So that's the one I took on manual. And that's the one on aperture priority. And that's the intelligent auto. So far I'm finding that the automatic modes don't make the best choices. So if you really want to take a great photo, you have to put it on manual.

And that's a bit disappointing. Maybe it's the type of lens but that's just my experience. Let's just go through some of the other photo modes here. So you want to take some rapid photos, you can put it in this mode here. I'll just go in front of the camera and there'll be a subject, flip the screen around. And okay, let's put it in auto focus continuous mode it is okay.

Okay, tap to focus. Alright. Let's see how that looks. Not bad. So I took some rapid photos in succession. This one is four self timer I get mixed up between these two The one on the end is time lapse, you'll see there that it's got a different menu.

So this one is for setting an interval and you can adjust the interval in the menu. So this is good if you want to take a photo and maybe have yourself some time to set up. So I'm just gonna set it on 10 seconds, I'll show you what it looks like. Okay, it's taken some experimenting, this is a different photo taking experience then with my Canon 60 I find with the GH five you have to set slower shutter speeds to get the results that I wanted with this camera and I do have external lighting here. I've got a LED light All right. So we're rejoining.

And the time lapse is almost done. There's one more shot. And let's take a look at the workflow. So I'll just bring this over here. So it's not distracting you. So it's asking, do you want to create the video now?

Yes, of course we want to create the video now. And so we have some choices to make. We can set the frame rates. I'll just set it at 30 frames. And it's going to be full HD. mp4 file and then we can choose if we want to do it in reverse.

Let's just do this one in reverse, just for fun and hit OK Create time one minute proceeds. Yes please. And it's going to go ahead and create the video. So let's play it. There we go. So that's how we create a time lapse with the GH five and have the camera actually create the time lapse video in the camera.

That's pretty cool