@2wheelsimon I was responding to your comment posted in this thread on 12/6. This thread is specifically on the exposure topic that @Vesku is posting about. If you believe @Vesku is posting inappropriately to other threads, it would probably be more productive if you were to post your comment in those threads or perhaps use PM to @Vesku or even request @Vitaliy to intercede in the other threads you feel that @Vesku has posted in appropriately. Again, I did not intend to offend you, but I believe your post in this thread was not appropriate.

Regarding the comment 1) from Mr. Bill on 8/29...I do appreciate that using Manual exposure requires more skill than using automatic settings, however I think one of the challenges with the way ISO adjustment works on the Panny is the lack of exposure information on the ISO adjustment screen. Specifically, the lack of exposure information on the ISO adjustment screen makes it a little cumbersome to achieve correct exposure when adjusting ISO. In essence the Panny implementation of the ISO adjustment screen makes you guess at exposure while in the ISO adjustment screen, exit ISO adjustment screen to check exposure, then return to the ISO screen to make more adjustments if you estimated wrong. This can be further complicated by the settings for the screen itself.
Does it cripple the camera? IMO no, certainly not enough to abandon the tool.
Could it be improved? Yes, certainly.
Should it be improved? I don't know the level of effort to change this in a particular model series with a FW patch, but it seems like it would be easy to address with a new model series.

Fabulous advice @v10tdi can you guide me to which threads to avoid because he writes the same stuff in any number of places?

Put yourself in Pany's shoes - people could write novels and fill forums page after page with these issues....

In Panasonic shoes: "Hey people in reviews and forums want auto iso in M and some little easy additions to exposure features. Thats great, how did we not figured that earlier. Lets make those easy corrections to FW in next update."

This is fabulous news, can we all assume you will now sell all of your Panasonic gear and head off to Sony Threads?

2017 looks so much brighter to me if I don't have to read the same old same old over and over and over again.

i care too. I've emailed PanasonicEU, PanasonicUK and also tweeted LumixUSA - all to no reply or acknowledgement...to me it just isn't on their radar to improve features directly from user input. There has to be an inherent issue or request from inside to facilitate an improvement.

I wonder why almost no one have been interested in seeing exposure information during video shooting. I think seeing all info about video parameters would be educational too. For example it would be nice to have a WB kelvin degree visible all the time. Also iDynamic status or Master pedestrial. The camera should show these at least in full screen info display mode. It is easy to forget those things ON unintentionally.

I have been writing these suggestion for years in many forums. How can I hope that one Youtube video could make a difference. If Panasonic designers knowledge about cameras is based on Youtube we have little hope. It tells about our world something.

Enthusiast users browse regularly camera forums. If Panasonic designers dont how they can get feedback.

Is it true that a very busy top manager decides all the features or fixes actual designers or camera engineers can do. It may be so that in Asian cultures there is a hard hierarchy and lower managers or workers dont dare to use their own brains.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Thanks for idea and support but I think Panasonic managers can read. They must know these issues. If not they are idiots.

Everyone with a wifi phone can check what the camera is doing in auto modes. Sadly I think not many user cares. Novices has no idea and professionals use full manual.

My message is that Panasonic should add those missing basic exposure features. We dont need to test that.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Do you mean the hidden odd automatic exposure values? I dont have a wifi smartphone for monitoring the exposure numbers. I just have videos with jumpy exposure and wrong exposure choices.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

"make test" ?

Another new idea: The white balance kelvin degree should also show all the time with A, SS and iso. It would be informative and teaching to see what kelvin degrees the camera chooses in auto mode.

The camera should have separate AE-lock, WB-lock and AF-lock buttons or FN-options for those. It would be easy to set up everything in auto and then locking some settings if needed.

I am quite sure I have figured the reason why Panasonic dont want to show exposure values in video recording.

Panasonic lenses cant make smooth automatic exposure changes. The camera must use iso or shutter speed to make smooth exposure changes. It is generally not a good idea to use changing shutter speed for video. When using the red video button Panasonic camera uses a locked aperture and changes only shutter speed and/or iso and the exposure is then smooth. Panasonic dont want to show us that the camera is using "odd" video exposure values like very high and changing shutter speeds because it cant use aperture for video exposure. Most users dont care but if a serious user could see the camera using odd exposure values it would be bad for Panasonic reputation for video oriented camera.

If a user could see those odd exposure values with red video button he would want to prefer manual video mode. Manual video mode P uses also those odd exposure values so Panasonic has chosen not to show any of the automatic exposure values.