Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 flash review and tutorial

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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 is able with a popup-flash housed in the aerial appropriate bend of its body; it’s abandoned appear by blame the beam button on the rear, so it’s bigger disabled aback bankrupt aback into the body. With a adviser cardinal of 6m at 100 ISO, it’s not decidedly powerful, but it charcoal a advantageous backup light, while the apparatus raises it to a admirable acme to minimise red-eye. It’s additionally a key advantage the GF1 has over the E-P1 which has no congenital beam at all.

With the beam raised, you can accept from Auto, Auto with booze reduction, Forced-on, Forced-on with booze reduction, Slow-sync, Slow-sync with booze abridgement and finally, affected off, although afresh you can accomplish the closing by artlessly blame the beam aback into the anatomy as it won’t accession on its on accord. The booze abridgement fires a pre-flash, but if booze abatement is enabled in the menus, agenda alteration is additionally activated afore saving.

Like the E-P1 and Canon G11, the Lumix GF1 is additionally able with a hotshoe for ascent alien flashes and added accessories. Panasonic suggests the alternative DMW-FL220 for use with the GF1, but you may be able to use added units, admitting with chiral ascendancy only. As you’d expect, there’s no PC Sync port.

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