Camera Investigation

CAMERA INVESTIGATION

We have 4 different styles of camera in school.

Panasonic Lumix LX7
Pansonic Lumix GH3 and GH4
Panasonic G3
Canon 550D and 600D

Over the next few weeks, you will need to undertake the following tasks and answer the following questions.

TASKS
1: Change the camera from JPEG to RAW mode and back again.
2: Take a portrait in medium close up using natural light.

3: Take a Long Shot portrait using studio lighting.

4: Find three images online that you really like and try to take a photograph that is similar to each one. NB: You can use Photoshop afterwards.

5: Make a short video in which you ask one of your portrait models three questions.

QUESTIONS
1: Which camera has the smallest focal length (i.e. allows the closest shot)?

Lumix LX7
2: Which camera allows the best shallow depth of field? IYO

Lumix GH4
3: Which camera has the easiest user interface.

Canon 600D
4: Rank the cameras in order of how useful you think they will be to take stills for:
a) A website

-Canon 600D

-Lumix GH4

-Lumix LX7
b) A magazine

-Lumix GH4

-Canon 600D

Lumix LX75: Rank the cameras in order of how useful you felt they were for taking short videos.

-GH4

-Canon 600D

-Lumix LX7