From the course: Panasonic Lumix GH5: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
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Video teleconverter - Lumix Tutorial
From the course: Panasonic Lumix GH5: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Video teleconverter
- In the GH5, you have an option called tele conversion. Now, in the physical world, tele converting is usually not the greatest thing. What it means is you take an extra piece of glass, kind of a secondary lens, and put it between your camera and your regular lens to extend the telephoto mode of that. So, if you're shooting with a 100 millimeter lens and you put in a way 1.4x converter, you just turned 100 mil lens in to a 140. And that works, the quality is good, it's not fantastic, it's not as good as the native lens, but it does get you closer to the scene, great. In the digital world, the same thing happens on a lot of cameras, and unfortunately, usually it's not good. Usually what you'll see is something called digital tele conversion. You'll also see it called digital zoom, and effectively what's happening is instead of putting a longer lens on the camera, the camera is simply cropping down the sensor, using less and less of the sensor, and then scaling that back up to the size…
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