The Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 is another one of the micro four-thirds interchangeable lens system cameras from the Panasonic Lumix range. The Panasonic Lumix G2 was released in 2010 following the success of its predecessor the G1. The G2 was named the first interchangeable lens camera with touch control shooting...

The Panasonic Lumix G2 features a 12.1 megapixel CMOS censor with Panasonic’s intelligent auto mode and movie modes with two formats, Panasonic and Sony’s AVCHD lite recording format which records at 50 fps in the United Kingdom and when bought in America, 60 fps, and motion JPEG which records in 30 fps. Both take videos at 1280 x 720 16:9 HD. The quality of the videos are very good and when plugged into a TV through a mini HDMI cable (not included) you can really make out all of the fine details so I am very happy about that. The problem I sometimes have with recording is the low light quality, it can be noisy sometimes and even when looking at a dark object noise can occur. Also, when I import AVCHD footage into after effects to slow it down, after effects recognises it only as 25 fps so slow motion there is out of the question. Other than that the movie quality is very good. When in the movie setting there are three options for AVC HD recording: AVC SH, AVC H and AVC L, these just mean the speed in mbps. In recording mode L the megabytes per second rate is 9 mbps, in H it is 13 mbps and In SH the mbps is 17.On an 8 gigabyte SD card you will get around 1hour and 58 minutes of recording time in L mode, I hour and 21 minutes in H mode and 1 hour and 2 minutes in SH mode. Why the stupid letters? I cannot begin to understand.

This camera has an ISO range of 100 to 6400 and lots in-between .It has a total of 19 different ISO values to choose from. An amazing feature about this camera is using the touch screen you can choose where you focus, instead of having set points, you can drag your finger around and focus. Also the touch screen can be swivelled around to all sorts of angles making those hard shots that much easier.

Being such a small camera it really packs a punch with a full range of features you would expect on a professional digital SLR camera. Panasonic have allowed you to customize all of the features such as the aperture and shutter speed in different modes or in manual mode change both. The camera offers a wide range of settings such as: P, for general usage, the camera does everything you need to take an amazing photo. A, where you can adjust the aperture and the camera adjusts the shutter speed. S, where you can adjust the shutter speed and the camera will adjust the aperture. M, manual mode where everything is customisable. CUST, where you can change different aspects of the camera in the menu. Movie mode, for taking high quality movies, The G2 only has a mono microphone but a jack for external microphones on the side. SCN, scene mode for various, well scenery, like: sunset, party, peripheral defocus, baby and pet. Night mode for: night portraits, illuminations and night scenery. Macro mode, for close ups. Sport and action, for fast moving subjects. Landscape for nature and cityscapes. Portrait mode for taking portraits, and my colour, where you can put varying effects on the pictures, like: Expressive, elegant, pure, monochrome, dynamic art, silhouette and custom.

Overall this camera takes great photos sharp high quality videos and is well worth the buy for budding photographers and even videographers. The camera feels nice in the hands and has a compact feel to it. It feels sturdy when held and has a nice sleek finish to it, very nice, very smooth, great camera! Thank you for reading!

-Kiran