{"id":225,"date":"2011-10-15T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2012-10-25T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:26:24","slug":"panasonic-lumix-g3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/panasonic-lumix-g3\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic Lumix G3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A picnic this week provided opportunity for my fIrst test drive of the Panasonic Lumix G3.<br \/>\nI am very pleased with the ease of use and the image quality. I was super impressed by the face-detection auto-focus and the LCD-touch-screen focus selection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-226 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000040-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000040-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000040.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Shown here is my favorite shot, Balasankar dishing up a nice overhand serve.\u00a0 As you can probably guess, I am holding the G3 over my head for this shot.\u00a0 An articulated\/swivel display screen is very helpful for overhead shots and also down-on-the-ground shots.\u00a0 I quickly learned to love this feature on the C-5060 (very few cameras had this feature back in 2004\/5) and I absolutely required it for a replacement camera. The 3-inch swivel-touch-display on the G3 is a sweet upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>ISO 800, f\\6.3, 1\/800 sec, auto white-balance<br \/>\nShot as JPG\u00a0 (not RAW)<\/p>\n<p>(click the image for a larger view)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here are a couple more shots with the same 14mm lens (equivilent to a 28mm on a full-frame DSLR).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000031-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000031-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000031.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000011-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000011-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Davis11_1000011.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picnic this week provided opportunity for my fIrst test drive of the Panasonic Lumix G3. I am very pleased with the ease of use and the image quality. I was super impressed by the face-detection auto-focus and the LCD-touch-screen focus selection. \u00a0Shown here is my favorite shot, Balasankar dishing up a nice overhand serve.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[41,40],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","category-equipment","tag-g3","tag-lumix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}