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

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.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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."

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

@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.

How stupid of me!

I can shoot video using a 4k photo mode. It shows exposure values like photo modes and and has auto iso in M and auto iso upper limit. It makes just the same video files as normal video.

It is very easy to toggle between S, A, P and M.

I can have two different video mode instantly. One with shutter and other with video button.

I must test if it has any drawbacks.

A logical new way to set exposure for video would be semi-auto exposure (AES=AE single). No brand has figured it yet.

With P, A or S the exposure would be adjusted when starting the clip and then stays unchanged. Auto exp would just give the starting point. The same is possible with AE-lock but is not so easy. It needs constant AE-lock ON/OFF toggles between clips and it is easy to forget ON for next clips.

The same semi-auto would be useful for WB too. WB adjusts in video start and then stays.

Auto focusing has already this option (AFS).

So the camera should have AFS, AES an WBS and proper menu options for that.

There should also be a possibility to program separate AE-lock, AF-lock and WB-lock to FN-buttons.

@Vesku - I sent you a PM earlier. :)