When your confidence as a photographer and your image requirements outgrow your compact point-and-shoot camera, the next logical step is to explore something a little more sophisticated.
The models across our entire Lumix G Series have taken the global market by storm because they perfectly meet the needs of the amateur photographer looking for professional results. Small, sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, the G Series can greatly expand any photographer’s skill-set. The amazing range of intelligent automatic (iA) features helps you produce flawless photos while your skills are growing and offer the ability to take more manual control as you become more self-assured in terms of the camera’s operation.
The key feature of an interchangeable lens system camera is the ability to change the lens to match each shooting situation, while the brilliant part of the iA mode is that it provides a safety net. You can choose to stay with the basic camera set-up and utilise the automatic features, move on to assisted semi-auto or branch out and explore the range of lenses available. At any time, you are able to flip back to iA if the shooting situation is more complicated than you anticipated.
Evolving your Photography Skills with your Lumix G Series Camera
When your image ambitions and confidence as a photographer outgrow your compact point-and-shoot camera, the next logical step is to explore something a little more sophisticated.
The models across our entire Lumix G Series digital camera range have taken the global market by storm because they perfectly meet the needs of the amateur photographer looking for professional results. Small, sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, the G Series can greatly expand any photographer’s skill-set. The amazing range of intelligent automatic (iA) features helps you produce flawless photos while your skills are growing, and offer the ability to take more manual control as you become more self-assured in terms of the camera’s operation.
The key feature of an interchangeable lens system camera is the ability to change the lens to match each shooting situation, the brilliant part of the iA mode is that it provides a safety net for your photography. You can choose to stay with the basic camera set-up and utilise the automatic features, move on to assisted semi-auto or branch out and explore the range of lenses available. At any time, you are able to flip back to iA if the shooting situation is more complicated than you anticipated.
Best Basic Lens Kit
When you are ready to get creative with lenses, don’t be put off by the seemingly endless array available. While it is true that there is a lens for every situation, there are a few basic lenses that every photographer relies on the most. Once you have mastered these, you’ll have the confidence and knowledge to explore the entire lens offering with your camera.
Standard Zoom Lens
A standard zoom lens will quickly become the staple item in your lens kit. You will use it for any kind of shot, from landscapes and still-life to snapshots of your children and pets – to capture beautifully rendered images that would not be possible from a compact camera. A standard zoom allows you to vary the angle of view and focal distance, choose different perspectives and experiment with varying degrees of soft focusing as your skills evolve, allowing you to create interesting and expressive images.
Telephoto Zoom Lens
Whether you want to shoot natural portraits in the medium telephoto range, or captilise on the full scope of zoom for dramatic close-ups or impressive landscapes, a telephoto zoom lens certainly covers a lot of ground. The beauty of a Lumix telephoto lens is its ability to deliver a phenomonal zoom in a lens so compact that it can fit in the palm of your hand.
Macro Lens
Bring tiny worlds into view with a macro lens. Imagine that you want a larger than life picture of the centre of a flower, or you would like to capture every intricate detail of a tiny insect; that’s where a good quality macro lens comes in. They are specifically designed for close-up camera work and elaborate focusing to ensure brilliant resolution, even at the highest levels of magnification. Many photographers find that macro lenses are not limited to intense focusing. Their excellent optics make them useful for general photography purposes, giving you the freedom to create a wide variety of compositions, from portraits to telephoto shots.
Single Focal Lens
Once you become more confident with your ability to “compose” shots with your camera, you will understand why single focal lenses give an all-round superb optical performance. A single or ‘fixed’ focal length lens (also known as a ‘prime’ lens) is pretty much the opposite of a zoom lens. It might sound less versatile than a zoom which has a variable focal length; however, for photographers who are looking to take amazing pictures, single focal lenses are an invaluable part of the camera kit. One reason for this is that when you have to be aware of depth-of-field (instead of letting the zoom do all the work), you become more expert at what makes a good composition. It means great pictures are something you think about before you even click! Because their optics are simpler, prime lenses usually have a larger maximum aperture (smaller f-number) than zoom lenses. This allows photography in lower light and a shallower depth of field.
Fish Eye Lens
With a fisheye lens on your camera, familiar everyday scenes become surreal, imaginative images. Even with the same subject, changing the lens angle creates a curving effect that gives the scene an entirely different look. Whether you’re shooting photos or movies, the fisheye lens lets you create truly distinctive, eye-catching images.
Wide Angle Lens
An ultra-wide angle lens is an extraordinarily versatile tool for your camera. Not only does it let you capture the vastness and majesty of sweeping landscapes with true-to-life perspective, a wide-angle lens is invaluable for shooting situations where you need to get a lot in the picture but have limited space around you. Every G Series wide-angle is equipped with aspherical lenses for correcting a variety of aberrations and extra-low dispersion (ED) lenses to eliminate chromatic aberration from magnification, rendering sharp, crisp images across the entire zoom range. While mastering a wide-angle lens will take a little more time but the results are definitely worth it.
X Series Lens
The brand new X-series lens for your Lumix G camera epitomises the ultimate in Panasonic optical technologies. This premium category currently includes two wide-angle telephoto power zoom lenses that eclipse all others in their class. Outstanding compactness and therefore easy mobility go some of the way to explaining why these lenses are at the top of the heap. However, the really outstanding feature of the X-series is a unique Nano Surface Coating that minimizes ghosting and flaring, rendering incredibly life-like textures with crisp edge-to-edge contrast.