exposure?

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Hey guys. Well, in the East we got a crap load of snow, so naturally, I wanted to test my GH1 out. I'm still new to this camera, so I need help with settings...

When I'm in the movie mode, I can't seem to control my exposure, why is this? Everything seems too dark inside and too blown out outdoors in the snow. I know it must (I hope so) be a setting I have set wrong.

Thanks for any help. This forum has been great!
 
Do you mean that changing the aperture, for example, has no effect on the exposure? Or do you mean that you can't change it enough to get the scene properly exposed?

If the former, all I can suggest is to make sure you have it in the right mode. You can record movies in modes that don't let you manually change exposure.

If the latter, you may need to change the ISO or get some neutral density filters.
 
I can't seem to get the scene properly exposed. And I know it's possible, because when I switch to some of the other modes, it gets brighter indoors looks better outdoors..

PS: Yes, I think I will need ND filters, especially before I start my next film, because I like to use plenty of lighting...
 
Can someone explain this procedure?

While auto-focusing on the Lumix GH1 involves a number of restrictions, the exposure control is much more straightforward – well, apart from one slightly unintuitive aspect anyway. The GH1 may let you film using any of the mode settings on the main dial (including scene presets and iA modes for specific or automatically recognised subjects), but set it to PASM and it becomes fully automatic. Confusingly, if you want to use program, manual, aperture or shutter priority, you’ll first need to set the mode dial to the Creative Manual setting, then choose P, A, S or M from an on-screen menu. Panasonic explains this is becuase the shutter speed range is lower in the movie mode than it is for stills.
 
You probably know already the stock kit isn't the best indoors in the first place, unless you light the scene up. are you using kit lens or other? If you are then try locking your apperture to 4, drop your shutter speed to 1/30 or 1/50 1/60 and bump up your ISO accordingly to a manageable point. But like I said the only way to get proper exposure i find with the kit lens is to give the scene/subject enough light. Or get yourself a faster lens

As for outdoors with kit lens, close your aperture accordingly, drop your ISO to 100 set your shutter speed to 1/50 1/60 and bump your exposure down all the way via your finger dial. If your not fussed with shutter speed then bump that up accordingly. But there is only so much you can do before you need ND filters, especially in the snow with all the glare. It is a stills camera after all so that feature is not built in like camcorders. I normally use my primes but the other day I tried the kit on a sunny day to film some dancers with these settings. I ended up only shooting when the clouds came by to filter the sun abit for good exposure, otherwise it would have been blown out all the time. The sun and snow would be a million times worse.

This is all in creative manual which i recon is the best way to shoot.
 
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