From the course: Panasonic Lumix GH5: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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New joystick

New joystick

- On the back of the GH5 camera right under where you'll thumb will fall you'll find a new joystick that allows you to do a multitude of things. You can use it to control your focus point, you can use it to navigate menus, or you can even use it to set custom function commands to each direction that you push it. Let's take a look at how this works. By default the joystick allows you to move your focus point around. So I can tell the camera to focus on an object in the left side or on the right side of the scene. However you like. Now while you're navigating it, you'll notice that the box has four arrows on it. That means that I can by spinning the dial on the back of the camera, increase or decrease the size of the focus area. So if I want to be very precise about my focus I can do that, or if I want to be a bit more general I can do that as well. Right now we're in the one area focus mode, but if I move that over to the 225 Area focus mode, the camera will basically automatically use…

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