Panasonic G85 Focus and Vlogging Settings 

This was super helpful! Going to record my first video tomorrow when I get more natural lighting in the room!

I just got the G85 and your walk thru was super helpful in setting up the camera for its first video recording use. Thanks much!

This is an amazingly helpful video.

Just got my G85 and I'm trying this setting Thanks... cant wait to get familiar with the cam, and Improve my Videos!

Great video! Thanks for the info 😊 I am looking at getting a G85 for my first camera (I am completely new to the dslr industry), I was wondering if you would be interested to go out into the field and give a tutorial for beginners of how to use the different settings e.g. when do you use the ISO function and what settings it should be on or how does the shutter speed work, etc. If this is something that would interest you please could you make a tutorial on this! 😊

More info than any other review. Thanks!

Great video! Thank you so much, I've learned a lot :)

This is great! Thanks for the detailed vid!

Cool man thanks. Good video

This was FILLED with a lot of great information Justin. I always love these tech videos you do because they are so "Human". You do more than just feed the spec heads and mix a lot of real world scenarios into your content. Also, did you leave two layers of audio in this video? Sounded like there was a little echo, almost like there was a duplicate audio layer left in. May just be me though, I'm insanely tired lol

This has helped me so much! Thank you!

appreciate the video i've been vlogging with this setup and getting the hang of it. also use the g85 to film my podcasts such a great camera!

Great informative video. We have the same frustrations you do. Franny and I are often doing an intro or outro together Vlogging style and the eye focus will just pick up one of us (a mentioned by another comment on this video). We have been playing with manual setting or shutter priority because of it. On this video...I personally had a little bit of a hard time keeping up with you. Kind of think of us as kindergarteners or beginners. I literally need you to show, hit this button, then hit this. Most of the time I could figure it out, but a few times I was like what menu is he in now? How did he get there? Just advise. Take it or leave it. My most frustrating issue now (besides the focus on two people) is the image stabilization. You clued me into something, but I noticed it is grayed out of my camera and I can't select the menu to change the operation mode under the stabilization. Maybe it's my lens. I did upgrade from the kit lens to LUMIX GX Vario 12-35. So, I am going to have to research why that stabilization option is grayed out. What I am saying is THANK You, because I get that rocky side to side thing happening and it's driving me nuts. Now I just have to fix it. Heidi

Great vid! So here is a beginner of all beginner questions, can you (or anyone reading this) guide me in finding the menu setting that gets me to the AF MODE Screen that is at 2:04, where you can choose your settings for AF?

Great video. I bought the G7 last week to try it out. I instantly fell in love. The 20% of bad autofocus didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. I decided to order the G85 however, for the wider lens, ibis, and weather sealing. I think it's a great overall camera for what it offers. I have a 60D and really fought with buying the 80D with Dual-pixel AF. I guess the 4k sold me. One question I came up with is, as I was trying out the manual focus(the M on the top dial) on my G7, I noticed it still autofocused the camera in video. The autofocus seemed even better than when the camera was in other modes. Is that suppose to happen? Why is the camera still autofocusing in manual mode? Does it have to do with continuous autofocus being turned on? Or am I not using the right settings?

Killing it. Thanks. Note for 2024 scavengers: G90/G91/G95 has auto ISO in M video. Plus headphone jack, USB charge/power, OLED LCD and, for EU market vs. G80/G85, no 30 minute record limit. €400 MPB right now. 12-35mm f2.8 about the same. What's a better hybrid cam for anyone but AF-neurotic YT vloggers?

Justin is the idea of the spot focusing being linked to the spot metering something new with Panasonic?! Do you have to apply a special setting or if you simply choose spot metering and then choose spot focusing the metering will get linked to wherever you do your spot focus? This is a very handy feature I was not aware of! I've pre-ordered the GH5 and I assume this feature will be part of it. I hope!

Thanks for the upload. Just two questions: on A mode will the shutter speed change automatically. If yes, will that not make the 24 fps incompatible if under bright light it automatically changes shutter speed to 100 or above. Second question: when using a Nikon DSLR camera prime lens like 35 mm 1.8 on g85 with an adapter the focal length effect is supposed to double to 70. But will the aperture of 1.8 double to 3.6 or reduce to .9 as the sensor is small.

Hey Justin, you mentioned doing Facebook Live from the G85 (with some additional equipment)... what equipment would you recommend to enable that with the G85?

Hey hows it going Justin? What about using the 49 focus setting? I heard that helps a lot with the focusing issues? Is that true?

Did you shoot this with G85? I really like your setting. I am trying to start a channel for livestreaming pretty much like your setting with the darker background and all. I will be sitting and talking most of the time. Will the autofocus on G85 work well for my situation? Thanks.

Excellent video sir. Please please *please* tell me (or somebody else if you can tell me) what is the frame rate on these videos? Thank you so much in advance

Hi Justin. Seen almost all of your vids. Very helpful. Thanks for that. Exposure modes. In this one you explain you go for Aperture priority. But here is the thing. Your shutterspeed should be twice the framerate right? So I would make sure with 24fps I set the camera to 50 for shutter-speed and let the camera adapt the aperture since it cannot change the ISO. Why do you insist on A then? Is depth of field that much important to you for vlogging? KR Ed

Hi Justin, you actually can use Auto ISO in manual mode, you just need to set it to M mode (M without camera pictogram) on main dial, then you can set exact shutter speed and aperture and let camera set ISO. Auto ISO just does not work in manual movie mode, so it is not possible to use Cinemalike D and auto ISO, which is really unfortunate.

I think the Canon dual pixel AF is the best AF system. It just works so amazingly! Now if only they could get their 4K game in order....but that's another story! lol

Thanks! I have a tech channel as you can see from my name. Question: How about when you are doing product shots it tends to have movements focusing issue I'm having. For example unboxings or show casing a product. lens that I have are the Kit lens and 25mm 1.7 both from branded Panasonic. Camera: Panasonic Lumix G7.

Justin - Thanks for posting your settings - notice you set to AVCHD to get 1080 @ 24fps - why not just use MP4 1080 @ 25fps ? I'm thinking of using the combo 25fps and 60fps for slow motion in FCPX -

The autofocus on this camera is crap compared with our old Sony a5100 (and still using it). But! if you know how to control it, and you Justin do it very well, wouldn't be so bad. Maybe for someone who move the camera fast while vlogging focusing their faces and then a friend's face who is nearer and then showing something in the background this camera doesn't work properly. If all the scenes are controlled scenes by you, where you know you will not move a lot, this camera is good! We love the menu options and thanks to you we just learnt more about it (we learnt about it lenses a few weeks ago thanks to your channel). Do you think the files in the SD card are hard to find? Hahaha

My G8 auto focus is ASS, hopefully this video helps me out!

Hey Justin, seeing the better focus on the upcoming G9, do you plan to upgrade?

how is the touch to focus does it go in and out of focus like the auto focus ? or does it stay in focus on the subject ?

Helpful details... slow down dude. Too much caffeine! And can you explain why some options are greyed out? Not available? Thx. Newbie videographer

Which camera are you using to film this video?

I see a video saying the focus is good, then a video saying it's bad. Then one saying it's good. I have the G85 coming today and I feel like 1 minute I am happy, then next minute I am not. The next minute I am and then I'm not. What an up and downer purchase. For the software update, do you know if I can jump straight to the newest update or do I need to install the older one first?

Could you elaborate a little more on the differences between AVCHD 60P, AVCHD 60i, and MP4 60P? Why MP4 60P over AVCHD 60P and AVCHD 60i? Also, I don't know why but for my G85, the "Exposure Mode" is faded so I can't select it... ???

Hey Justin. Are you still using the G85 for vlogging or have you moved on to something else? Thanks!

I appreciate this video, but your advice on the color profiles is kinda silly. At 4k, the g85 is already plenty sharp, and raising the sharpness +2 actually begins to take away some of the detail in the shot and just looks kind of... off. Basically just too sharp. +1 *might* be ok, but even then you'll get a better quality by doing it (very quickly) in post. Raising contast and saturation instead of using a flat color profile also probably hurts your end image, because you can get better results by just applying a quick LUT to the end result which takes very little effort at all. Like basically just selecting it in post. The AF settings advice is much more helpful because I think a lot of people, myself included want to know how to get faster, more accurate AF results of of the g85. So thank you for this video, I'll try out your AF settings and see how they do :)

when you are mixing frame rates like 60fps for slomo, and 24 fps for cinematic - - should you render at 24fps or 60fps? THanks :)

If you shoot in AVCHD just a side note for those useing davinci resolve, you will not have any audio to work with... for some reason there is no audio playback i this editor unless your footage is in MP4

I thought shutter speed was supposed to be double your frame rate. If you're in aperture priority, will it not deviate from that rule? Is it that important?

How on Earth only 6.7K subs!!!! Very informative, easily understood... I got 2 question, I hope you can help . 1- what lens did you use to shoot this video ... 2- I truly understand that 12-35 f2.8 is the best workhorse lens for everything... but I got my g85 bundled with 42.5 f1.7... should I get the 25mm 1.7 or the 15mm for interviews, vlogging, product review... though 12-35 stabilized and weather sealed, but the price isn’t cutting it for me.... any recommendations

this is kinda an old video so i doubt you will see this comment but can you please tell me the beat in the beginning of the video????

Haha hilarious, I'm uploading the same topic right now :) What exactly do you dislike about the focus? I don't understand why people complain - I've never felt it was an issue - it always goes where it's supposed to imho.

Is it better than M50??

Is there a much difference between focus on g7 /g85? Vlogging and Holiday films will be the use and I'm not sure what to choose ...

Why the blasting backlight right behind your head? No wonder you cant get focus with a lighting setup like that.

Is someone typing in the background?

"If focus is most important to you???" you shoot blur??? bro WTF?