The Panasonic Lumix FZ300/330 Beginners Guide - Pilot Episode
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A new series that will take a fresh look at this complex camera especially with the new user in mind (but I'm sure that you will learn something new even if you are an experienced user!).
From feedback on my Amazon book the FZ300/330 User's Guide and comments on my later KZread videos it would appear that the technical content in these is just a bit to advanced for new users or digital camera converts to the complex camera.
So with that in mind this series will hopefully be less intimidation and far easier to learn by seeing the set up in action rather than having to read it in a manual etc.
To help with the series I have also written a new guide booklet which for the introduction will be free to download from here:
www.grahamhoughton.com/downlo...
It is in a high resolution PDF format so it can be read on smartphones tablet devices e-readers etc. It can also be printed out if you like (44 pages on A5 size paper)
The future success of the series will ultimately depend on how it is received by you. If it achieves your objective in learning the camera please give it the thumbs up and share it with others. If you haven't subscribed to my channel please do so - it really does help.
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Awesome series, no silly comics, irritating music and very informational. Thank you!
Can I tell you how thankful I am for your video? I think the greatest invention of the 21st century is KZread, and things like these are why. I just unboxed my camera earlier today, and although I watched this video several times in anticipation, I just watched it again, but this time able to go thru my camera settings. Looking forward for the rest, and I think I'm going to try and take a photography class. I agree with others comments that your delivery and teaching style is easy to listen to, and easy to follow. Very patient delivery and you don't make anyone feel dumb for not knowing these things. I can't wait to learn more features and get some use out if it now!
@GrahamHoughton12
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Thank you very much for this encouraging comment - really appreciated
I just bought the FZ300 (in 2024) as my FZ200 finally decided il was time to retire. I felt quite lost on how to use this new caméra, but then I discovered your channel on You Tube. Thank you so much, it has been really helpfull, and way easier than if I had done it by myself.
Just wanted to say that you do a great job. You have a gentle and kind way about you that makes you easy to listen to, and easy to like. Keep doing what you're doing!
Excellent as ever, Graham. Years of photography, and I still find your tutorials helpful - I always learn something.
A wonderful tutorial Graham. I've been away from photography for quite some time and just purchased a preloved FZ330 with no manual, so your video series will be - and already is a god send. Thank you so much. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
FZ300 is my first feature rich camera. Had it over two years now and still learning new features on a regular basis. Finding out more and more what a great camera it is. It's been a great learning experience. Looking forward to following your series on the camera. Your intitial review convinced me that this was the right camera for me. I mostly focus on video, but been getting more and more interesting in and enjoyment from photography as well.
Thanks so much for adding the new guide. I've been faithfully adhering to the earlier one, and am happy to have this more current version. I've been left in the dust regarding the newer technology, and deeply appreciate your style of instruction.
I finally took the time to sit with my camera and watch you ... you ROCK !!!
I feel so extremely grateful for the two videos you have made about this camera! Keep going ! You got the best explanations I have ever seen and I can finally use my camera properly to record my videos. Thanks !!
Thank you Graham for this series - I began it several months ago but life got busy with heaps of travelling so am now getting reacquainted with my camera yet again.
Dear Sir, your channel is a real gold mine... keep up the good work!
Thanks so much Graham for all your resources. I just bought the FZ300 this week and your help is invaluable.
Thanks, Graham! I am getting so much more from my FZ300 since I watched your videos, both series, and bought your books. It's like buying a new camera but not having to spend the money. Many thanks!
I'm so happy!!! I bought this camera about a month ago, and have so many questions and so many things I don't understand crealry, just learn how to use this camera. Thank you so much for the videos !!!
Thank you Graham. I have your book and its great but nothing beats your videos, Chris.
Thank you Mr. Houghton for these videos. I just bought a Lumix FZ300 and was trying to figure out all the buttons. I have been watching you tube videos trying to find help. Then I came upon yours and they are a great help. This is the first one I have watch but I am going to go thru all of them. Thanks again. Great job!
How gentlemanly, and what a pleasure to follow you! Thank you!
Great video Graham! Finally I got the FZ300 for my wife and your guide helps a lot when teaching the functions of this camera. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us!
Just bought a jz300 and I am grateful for your clear explanations.
Thank you for a great video. Just what I needed as a new user to this camera. Makes me feel much more confident taking photos. Please continue with these type of videos to help us learn to use the camera correctly.
Thanks Graham for all the videos that you have made over the years about these wonderful bridge cameras. I'm a fan!
I bought this yesterday and ordered your book. This video is exactly what I need. Thank you so much
Your videos are a great help . They were a great introduction to the functioning of my new FZ300 and now they help me along the way as I come back to them after practising.... I'm looking forward to any new ones....greetings from France
Just got my FZ300 today. Watched your video, got it out and have used it for the first time without stress. Thanks!
Brilliant Graham, I've learnt so much more in 17 minutes than mucking around myself for 24 months. Thanks
Thank you Graham for putting this guide together!
Hello Graham I'm watching you reset the fz300 and going through the settings to get the best quality picture wow there's a lot to it you're pure genius when it comes to cameras thank you again my friend God bless from Atlanta Georgia in the USA
Dear Graham, thank you so much for these Beginners Guide to the FZ330. I have bought one and can't wait to try it out and to see if I will be any good at being a photographer. Even if I'm rubbish at it, I'm still glad I bought the camera and following your course will be good education. Kind regards to you. I'm learning already!
Thank you!!!! I've owned this camera for a year and haven't known how to begin to work it. Your video was very easy to follow. I look forward to watching and learning more from you. Once I feel like I understand the basics I'll be buying your book!
Great mr Houghton, just bought my FZ 300 last week after watching your vids of the 200 series. A specific series for the newer version wil be a great help in getting started using it!
Picked up my fz330 today. Your video has been useful, I hope to learn more from you so keep up the good work. Thanks
Thank you for creating this tutorial series. I purchased your book, but as a newbie have struggled with understanding the technical jargon and learning how to use my Lumix camera. This tutorial is just what I needed and I will share with others!
Purchased a FZ330 when I retired a couple of months ago, been using it since but with a plethora of information to digest, your tutorial has at least given me a datum point. Onwards ans upwards.......thanks Graham.
Thank you! As usual, you are very helpful. I learned a lot from you on my previous Panasonic camera. I will learn the FZ300 from you as well! I share your channel with those that want to know more about Panasonic cameras. You're the best!! 👍
Yes Graham, I already have your book but think that this series will be a great addition beside it. Thank you sir.
Thank you, I've ordered the FZ 300. Your content is very helpful.
Looking forward to the rest of them Graham! Cheers mate.
Graham, these videos are great! Thank you so much for putting them together. It would have taken me so much longer to figure out this camera without them.
Thanks so much for all this! In advance I planned to buy the FZ1000, now it is the FZ300. I really appreciate your videos!
Thanks alot Graham clear concise videos even someone like me that hasn't used a real camera for years is able to follow along with you cheers m8
Considering purchasing one of these---excellent demonstration of what the camera has to offer. Thank you!
Again thank you, you have the best reviews I had ever seeing.
I know I'm late, but i want to thank you for this series. You are a wonderful person.
Thanks for all your thoughts that have gone into this Graham - very, very useful.
YES, I have this camera and wanted something like it for a while!
Hi Thanks for a great video I am thinking of getting this camera but was concerned about it being too complicated for a beginner. With these videos being very basic they are ideal easy to understand and informative
Thank you for these very informative videos Graham! Keep up the good work!
Great video Graham. Many thanks. Looking forward to the next one
I should know a lot more than I do from having had a digital camera for years, but this FZ300 is a totally new animal. Your video has been very, very helpful. I am thankful for youtube because I can keep stopping and rewinding. :-)
I took delivery of my FZ330 yesterday and I'm already loving it. In addition to that, I came across your tutorials a few days back, what a bonus! I've just followed the 'Beginners Guide - Pilot Episode', and I found it to be very useful indeed. Clearly explained, at a good pace, and very informative. I think I'm going to find your guides very useful, and I'm sure they'll help me to get to know the camera better, and therefore take better images. So, thank you very much!
Fantastuc stuff man. Just got the camera, came with you book. I have become much more comfortable learning by video lessons and look forward to adsorbing your content. Thanks for doing this!
Graham, you're the best! Many thanks.
What a really helpful and uncomplicated series of tutorials for a complete novice like me. Like others I had no idea about what the terminology meant or how to apply functions. I will be using all the series repeatedly. Thank you so much.
Fantastic series. This camera is a lot more fun when you know what it can do. It's very easy to follow you. Thank you so much.
Graham, your videos are informative, crisp and well produced. Well done, please keep it up....
Thank you for a very helpful video. Please keep more coming!
Thank you! Really interesting. This is my first 'complicated' camera and I'm struggling a bit, so this has been really helpful.
Thank you, Graham. I have your book, which has helped me a lot but it's great to have you actually teaching what to do. Glenis Biddle
Thank you so much for all of your efforts on these videos! After many years of enjoyable photography with my FZ70, I bought an FZ330 on your reviews of it. Of course, I would not think of beginning to set it up without you! Looking forward to many years of silent collaboration with you and my Lumix cameras! Kure Beach, NC
Great that I found you. Even a complete novice with camera with the help of your videos will surely help me. This first video I didn’t get lost with the instructions. Yay
As I am buying a FZ300, this is a fantastic lesson and easy to understand, while setting I can tke help of it again.
I just received my new FZ300 in the mail today!! I am so excited to get started with it. After watching this first video, I am very confident that you will help me to get the absolute most out of this camera that I can. I've been learning about iphone photography for the past year and really loving it, but am now ready to take the first steps towards more control and potential of my photography! Thanks so much for making this series!
@GrahamHoughton12
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the comment, enjoy the series and your new camera.
Thank You very much for this page! I´m from Sweden and I don´t get every word You say, so it´s great with Your tutorials.
Thank you Graham. My new FZ300 and I'm following you :)
Excellent Graham. It really helps with the set up on the ZS 50 too. Thanks again.
This video was truly awesome. Thank you for taking time to create this for us, Graham.
@GrahamHoughton12
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
GREAT video, Graham......I just learned something new about those function buttons!!!
Another excellent video Graham. Thank you so much for these.
Thanks for your clear and comprehensive explanations. Pls keep it going
Thank you so much for your wonderful informational videos on this camera. If I had not found you here on u-tube I think I might have given up, but your explanations are wonderfully clear, concise and easy to follow. Very grateful. I am now optimistic about learning all the aspects of this FZ300 and generally improving my knowledge and currently limited skill.
@GrahamHoughton12
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, enjoy the rest of the series for this great camera.
Just what I needed. I have had my FZ330 for over a year, and I have already learned something new about it from your video!
Thanks for your intuitive, insightful tutorial. Just got this cam and this helped immensely.
Graham, I would like to commend you, from one educator to another, on an excellent and most thorough presentation. You have done a great service to photographers, and having suffered the woes of hell in deciding which contemporary mid-range (aka 'bridge') camera to invest in I decided on the FZ300... which led me to your marvelous lecture / demo. You have made that which is daunting rather less so. I shall continue to follow your lecture videos and look forward to buying a book as well. Cheers from Parakansalak, West Java.
Thanks Graham I'm a newbie also starting to demystify the inner workings.
Bought my FZ330 last week after selling my old Nikon DSLR so thought I’d better find some sort of manual for it and happened upon this. Well, I thought, I’ve been using digital cameras for many years, what on earth is Mr Houghton going to teach me that I don’t already know? Three minutes into first episode…. reset brain to factory settings, resolve to just do what Graham tells me. This is a very different camera from anything I’ve had before and even going through the basics has taught me a whole new approach. Thanks Graham, I look forward to further episodes and will order the book.
Good evening, Graham. I just discovered your channel and site after purchasing the FZ300. My son is starting high school marching band, and I noticed during the first game that my iPhone was not going to provide the quality of pictures we want to keep. I'll be going through your tutorials with great interest as I step up to this more advanced camera. Thank you so much for such exhaustive content! I look forward to learning how to use this camera to capture my son's experiences in high school!
thank you so very much!!! Can't wait to follow along on this adventure with you!!!
Amazing, video . Got my FZ300 yesterday and found this very useful.
Thank You! Super Helpful. I am excited to play with my new Lumix Fz300
Very helpful. This is my first real camera and I’m a bit overwhelmed!
Excellent video Graham .*
Good clear video for newbies. Thanks Graham. Please bring out next part soon.
Hi Graham Great introduction and tutorial. I've watched this ahead of me picking up the camera on Friday, just to get me started. I've ordered your guide book too, so hopefully will be well prepared going forwards. Many thanks.
Just got this camera. A couple things attracted me. External mic, 4k video and all the manual settings. I have a Canon M50 with a kit lense and wanted better zoom without having to purchase an expensive lens. With all that considered and the price just under $500 here in the states I figured it would be a good idea to grab. So far this tutorial is great and well explained. Thanks a bunch for the tutorial vids. Also just subbed to your channel.
Thank you Graham for a great video! I am trying to learn as much as I can about my FZ300 and this video was extremely helpful.
Great video! looking forward to the next ones!! thanks for sharing!
You produced the best video on how to use & customize the FZ-300. I watched them all before I bought the camera & that convinced me to make the purchase. You provide valuable insight on how to use this feature-packed camera. This is my 3rd Bridge camera and 2nd Lumix so I'm somewhat familiar with the operations. I will be using it while hiking for landscape photography. I plan on buying your color book also. Thanks Graham for a job well done!
Graham, if you don't work on commission for Panasonic you should because your tutorials are second to none, and you are very good at selling the benefits of Panasonic Cameras, and unmatched on your attention to detail ! After much deliberation between buying my next digital, it has come down to the FZ82 and the dated FZ330. Following your tutorials and those of a few others on KZread, I now realise that the 330, even in 2019 & despite only being 12K pixels, is still one of the best value cameras to learn and develop digital picture & video skills. Thank you for taking so much time to inform many old school 'photographers' on the need to spend LESS to get up to date with digital [previously no exp or skills required photography] techniques that bring back the skill and ability of days gone by. At least the future is brighter than 'point & shoot' for the dumbed down. You are actually doing this art a service, and now I actually find a true reason once again to get interested in a hobby that many years ago I found so satisfying.
10/10 excellent tutorial and made me love this camera....thank you
Just an Amazing super helpful video series that you've produced! Thank you so much!
Im so glad i found this video my husband bought me this camera for christmas . Ive used it a couple of times but now i want to use it more .this vieo has,really helped and in a way i can easily understand keep up the good work ❤😊
My new FZ300 will be arriving soon, so just want to say 'Thank You' for these videos and the Beginner's Guide. It's actually quite amazing to me that you'll offer this advice, so Thank You again. I've watched some of your other videos and your style is very pleasing to me. So for the 3rd time, Thank You. Steve (Did I remember the thank you???)
Dude, I'm a total noob. Moving up from a cell phone camera. You make this easy to understand. Thank you.
THANK YOU, Graham. A huge help to this noobie. Best wishes from North Carolina.
I just watched and this is EXACTLY what I need. You are an answer to prayer !!!! I have had my camera for little more than a year and I mostly do youtube and teaching videos .....Looking forward to your next segment ..... and I did purchase your book on AMAZON and do refer to it quite a bit. I have notes in the margins and have highlighted what I think is important (to me). I appreciate YOU .......
Love this series of video's. recently bought this camera in Jan sales having never owned a camera like this before. These videos are a great tutorial for a beginner like me. i love the way you can keep coming back to them to recap stuff. Thank you Graham for answering my email regards the charger that came with my unit, i have just ordered a back up battery ( like you say in the pilot episode) for less than half the price from Panasonic. so once i get a power bank I'm all good to go for mobile charging. keep up the good work. 👍
@Heart7Throb7
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how can we charge the camera is it possible via usb and what kind or only via special charger for only battery??
This is great! Thank for doing this!
Thank you for making it simple and easy...
THANK YOU this is superior instruction that would have been just impossible for me to understand without your excellent help.