Lumix DMC-FZ200
Sep 20, 2020 14:46:37 #
pjalper
Loc: San Pedro Ca.
Tried the P&S site but no replys. This youngish 82 y.o. Nikon shooter needs help [n introducing BBF to my (used) FZ200, A slooow learner, but will try to keep up with the P&S mavens. Thanks.
Sep 20, 2020 14:56:58 #
Hmm....I'd be interested in how to do that. I sold that camera to you but never tried BBF with it. Good luck
Sep 20, 2020 15:19:46 #
Sep 21, 2020 10:15:03 #
aflundi
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
pjalper wrote:
... shooter needs help in introducing BBF to my (used) FZ200, ....
It's been a long time since I used the FZ200, but I'm pretty sure it has no way to do BBF.
Sep 21, 2020 11:39:37 #
dadamia
Loc: Portland, OR
aflundi wrote:
It's been a long time since I used the FZ200, but I'm pretty sure it has no way to do BBF.
Do an Internet search on "FZ200 back button focusing". You'll see lots of videos and articles on how to do this.
Sep 21, 2020 12:46:09 #
aflundi
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
dadamia wrote:
Do an Internet search on "FZ200 back button focusing". You'll see lots of videos and articles on how to do this.
Is that really the same thing? I admit that using the side focus button in manual focus mode is similar, but usually BBF is used in AF-C (continuous focus) mode wereas the FZ200 side "focus" button seems to provide an AF-S (single-focus) type focus to be used as a one-shot starting point for manual focusing.
The docs are notoriously bad as explaining the operation envelope, so perhaps it is misleading me and I can't get my hands on an FZ200 right now to try it. It does decouple the focusing from the shutter button, but I think many of us would argue that unless the focusing is continuous (AF-C), it really offers no advantage over the shutterbutton half press.
Sep 21, 2020 12:52:36 #
pjalper
Loc: San Pedro Ca.
Lots of videos, but using FZ1000's. There is no AF-on button on the FZ200 (needed for true BBF. Thanks...Peter
Sep 21, 2020 13:10:34 #
dadamia
Loc: Portland, OR
Don't do it that way. Use the 'AF/AE Lock' button. Graham's video mentions this briefly at the beginning. Then, he goes on to explain the more complicated manual focus method. Maybe that is somehow better, but the AF/AE button works for me. You can program that button for AF or AE only, if you prefer. You must remember that the button is a toggle. That is, you push it once to focus. Then either take your photo or push it a second time to disable the focusing. Or, you can hold it down to get continuous focusing.
Sep 21, 2020 13:50:14 #
aflundi
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
dadamia wrote:
Don't do it that way. Use the 'AF/AE Lock' button... (show quote)
Ok, but that's AF lock, not BBF. It's there for a reason and it works, but it's not BBF.
Sep 21, 2020 14:42:15 #
FZ200
Loc: New York
Hello, I am a user of Lumix DMC-FZ200 too. Like this camera very much.
A question, if you don't mind: What is BBF? Or, at least, what does the acronym stand for?
Thanks in advance -
FZ200
A question, if you don't mind: What is BBF? Or, at least, what does the acronym stand for?
Thanks in advance -
FZ200
Sep 21, 2020 17:26:49 #
aflundi
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
FZ200 wrote:
Hello, I am a user of Lumix DMC-FZ200 too. Like this camera very much.
A question, if you don't mind: What is BBF? Or, at least, what does the acronym stand for?
Thanks in advance -
FZ200
A question, if you don't mind: What is BBF? Or, at least, what does the acronym stand for?
Thanks in advance -
FZ200
Back Button Focus - which is turning the focus control off at the shutter button and move that focus function to another button on the back of the camera -- traditionally the <AF-On> button -- so that focus can be controlled completely independently of triggering the shutter release.
Sep 21, 2020 18:06:38 #
pjalper
Loc: San Pedro Ca.
Back Button Focus.....where your machine will focus with one button, and shutter action from regular shutter button.As on my D750 and D5300. With practice BBF allows for faster hand action, and perhaps more frames. FZ200 does not have all the buttons needed for true BBF, but you can massage existing to ALMOST emulate. Peter
Sep 21, 2020 18:37:23 #
Sep 22, 2020 00:30:23 #
westitzer
Loc: Central California coastal area
pjalper wrote:
Lots of videos, but using FZ1000's. There is no AF-on button on the FZ200 (needed for true BBF. Thanks...Peter
I got out my FZ-200 and checked the AFC setting. It is selectable in the menu; Rec, pg 2, AF Style. Choices are AFS, AFF, an AFC.
Don't know whether this helps or not.
Sep 22, 2020 08:26:13 #
aflundi
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
westitzer wrote:
I got out my FZ-200 and checked the AFC setting. It is selectable in the menu; Rec, pg 2, AF Style. Choices are AFS, AFF, an AFC.
Don't know whether this helps or not.
Don't know whether this helps or not.
I did finally find a FZ200 to try out, and sadly, if you use the side focus button with Manual Focus and with AF style of AFC, it only single focuses (AFS style), so there's no true BBF capability.
Even if it had worked with with AFC AF style, that generation of continuous focus from Panasonic was almost useless, so BBF probably would have been very disappointing. I suspect that for Panasonic cameras, you'd need to have DFD technology before you had any chance of deriving some benefit from BBF.
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