Hands On with the Panasonic Lumix LX7

In order to get familiar with this camera, I have taken some photographs. I have played around with the ISO, f-stop and shutter speed in order to create different effects. Some of these images are over or under-exposed, or have a shallow depth of field. Next time I use this camera, I will make sure that the images will be in focus and that the settings on the camera are more suited to the composition or required effect. I will also edit them.These are the images we took:

Under-exposed

Panasonic Lumix LX7

The Panasonic Lumix LX7 is a good camera popular with photographers due to its advanced features (e.g ultra-fast aperture), whilst being a small size. This camera will take decent quality photographs and suitable for travelling as it is compact.

In order to understand how to use this camera, I have done research on the basic information (e.g how to change the battery, check the memory card and look back at recorded images or videos), as well as looking into how the following factors could affect the image you take:

• Setting the camera into manual mode
• Setting the camera into video mode
• Setting the camera to record in MPEG mode
• Setting the camera to take stills in RAW mode
• Changing the ISO, f-stop and shutter speed
• Zooming into specific areas and adjusting focus before taking the image or video
• Using the light meter

The following links will show you how to do these and how to use this camera:

• http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/panasonic_lumix_dmc_lx7_review/
• http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/panasonic-lx7/panasonic-lx7A.HTM
• ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/camera/om/dmc-lx7_en_adv_om.pdf
• http://danielrutterfilms.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/lumix-lx7-tool-for-beginner-film-makers.html
• http://www.adorama.com/alc/0013976/article/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-LX7-Product-Review

Photography/Videography Research

In order to understand how to use your camera, you must know how to control the camera iris (aka f-stop or aperture), shutter speed, ISO (or film speed) and depth of field.

To research these factors in a camera, I have looked at the following websites:

• https:photographylife.com/what-is-aperture-in-photography
• http://digital-photography-school.com/shutter-speed/
• http://www.slrphotographyguide.com/camera/settings/iso.shtml
• http://www.mediacollege.com/video/camera/focus/depth-of-field.html

Blogger Tutorial

I have never used blogger before, so in order to understand how to use it I have done the following research:

https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1623800?hl=en