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

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PASM dial

PASM dial

- One of the dials you're likely to use most on this camera is the mode dial, right on top. This is the dial that allows you to switch between your still photography modes, your video modes, even your fully automatic modes. And I know what you're thinking right now, "Fully automatic, what's that doing on a GH5? Man this is a high-end camera." Well, we're actually going to start with that because you might be surprised at some of the cool stuff that's in here. So the modes overall in this camera are P-A-S-M, Program, aperture priority, shutter priority, manual. You're creative movie mode, your custom mode, C one, two, and three. And then there's two auto modes, IA, intelligent auto and the art mode. We're going to start in intelligent auto. This can be a really great mode to put the camera in if you're going to hand it to someone else. You're handing it to a spouse, to your kid, just to a neighbor, a stranger on the street, and you want them to get a picture of you and you don't want…

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