Perfect Exposure every time on the Lumix Panasonic S5 and S series cameras

[@Haveyoueverbeenswallowed]

Dude.. you’re amazing!! This is one of the easiest and best ways to teach people about exposure tools and how they work 🙏🏾

[@sutv6754]

I am a full time student here on youtube. A youtube learning addict. I have GH6 now. I am trying again to shoot in Vlog successfully and have been for a year now . I've been doubling down watching every video on Exposing V log. Your video hit home for me. I now get it and I am looking forward to tomorrows shoot. I of course use Zebra but I was told to set them at 80 for Vlog. The spot meter I know all about but never used it because I did not really understand how. So now I do. I am greatful somehow I landed here on you channel. TY for real.

[@RoryandCasey]

I'm so glad you've found it useful!

[@Mikemccurdy74]

I have the s5ii and it’s a lot to try and understand! Love the camera tho. Thanks for the help!

[@mediamannaman]

This is incredible advice, but what are you "bumping" up or down? ISO? What if you are indoors and you set ISO to 4,000 to take advantage of dual native ISO, but you still need to adjust exposure? Is there a way to set aperture to auto-adjust, or must it be done manually?

[@shaanbilla3944]

I'm getting a S5 soon, and this information is awesome, Thanks Rory

[@RoryandCasey]

Glad it could help!

[@raymondjohnson6244]

That was so helpful thank you

[@RoryandCasey]

Glad it was helpful!

[@weightsandwaifus299]

This actually helped me so much. Thanks for the Content Rory

[@RoryandCasey]

No worries! Glad it was useful

[@thrillsandmagic]

I rarely find videos worth saving but this was succinct and super informative. Thanks so much!

[@maxie6990]

I search multiple videos on KZbin and some say use the vectorgram and luminance spot is no worry. But your point on the skin is really cool. It's such an real life experience there.

[@dancrosby6091]

Useful tips that can be used in every situation.

[@krsdjdjcrs1]

My luminance spot meter doesn’t show stop values it only shows percentage, I looked everywhere and cannot change the value to stops ? Any idea

[@swaha55]

How can you control contrast settings in the GH five. For example, if the highlights are too bright in the shadows too dark on a contrast day, can you bring the shadows of highlights more into so the highlights are not blown out?

[@RoryandCasey]

It’s been a long time since I’ve owned the gh5 but I believe you can adjust contrast in camera on the standard profiles. Not on vlog though.

[@nick_pascoal]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@RoryandCasey]

Glad it was helpful!

[@davidcollins4227]

Brilliant video. Question please … could I use this technique (zebras and spot meter) in photo mode also? Or is it just for videos? Thanks 🙏

[@RoryandCasey]

I guess you could, For photos you have significantly more flexibility with exposure in post so the normal exposure compensation meter is enough for me in that scenario.

[@Filming-and-Stuff]

Thank you Rory. This helped a lot. 👍🏼

[@RoryandCasey]

glad you found it useful 😊

[@Travel_Stache]

Hey, I love your explanations! for example at 3:07 cant you just 'not perfectly' expose the subject in the middle and save the back from blowing out and then fix the subject with color correcting later and thus saving the backgroud?

[@RoryandCasey]

There are definitely scenarios where you can do this. The risk is increasing noise and colour shifts by underexposing the subject too much when you try to recover it. Unless the background is vitally important I'd always prioritise perfectly exposed skin if it means blowing some highlights. The example in the video is definitely an extreme scenario but during weddings it happens a lot where the bride is getting ready in a darker room so you just have to blow out windows.

[@Travel_Stache]

@@RoryandCasey okay gotcha! I got a s5ii this week and im learning with videos like yours! Thanks alot

[@raymondjohnson6244]

Bravo

[@RoryandCasey]

Thanks for watching!

[@Bill-NM]

Is there anyway to auto-expose for the face? Meaning, if the camera is recognizing/tracking a person's face - is there a setting that will also auto-expose that face? Sorta seems like that would be the default? Or at least user-selectable? But I can't find it, so I'm probably wrong. :( Thanks...

[@RoryandCasey]

Nope. Light metering in cameras hasn’t evolved a lot over the last little while. If a company can do that in the future it’d probably be a good selling point

[@Bill-NM]

@RoryandCasey actually it does - did more research after posting the question. If you're in multi-metering mode AND using face/eye auto-focus, the camera will expose for the face.

[@RoryandCasey]

@Bill-NM it should but it doesn’t always

[@DANMCMAHON08]

Best zebra setting for V-log ?

[@RoryandCasey]

I have it set at about 95%. From memory vlog taps out at about 98IRE so 95 will show me just before anything clips

[@lecouriellecouriel2768]

Hi Rory and Casey, Thanks for the very interresting video! I'm wondering, where could I find a website that explains all this stuff: that 42ire is the perfect value for skintones in log ? Does one have to scan thousands of forums to find these informations or is there some specialized website(s) that documents them ? Thanks!

[@RoryandCasey]

Sorry I missed this comment! It's actually buried somewhere in the PDF that panasonic released about the VLog profile and how to expose it. It's not super user friendly unless you know what you're really into the technical aspect of cameras. I can't remember where I found it but if you google panasonic VLog PDF it will probably come up (just make sure you are reading the VLog one and not the VLog-L one

[@enstamud]

What is IRE?

[@RoryandCasey]

It's basically a measure of brightness with 0ire being absolute black and 100ire in sdr footage being absolute white.

[@lorriecooper1293]

Would have been nice to show where to find on the menu

[@RoryandCasey]

If you watch my setting up the S5 for video production video I go through all the menus and how to find each thing there 😊

[@markshirley01]

Waveforms seems to be the feature I hear talked about on the S5, how come you don't use that.

[@RoryandCasey]

Waveforms can be super useful. When I use an external monitor I still use them. My issue is they take up too much screen real estate for my liking in camera. Between the zebras and the spot meter I can always get my exposure bang on. If I was considering the entire scene or wanted to avoid crushing the shadows such as a landscape shot then I’d still consider using the waveforms but it’s not part of my normal workflow