Product Review

What's the difference between Self Timer and Shutter Delay? Between AFS and AFF? How can Disp.Style change your viewing experience? The menu system of the Panasonic GH4 is one of the best presented and most logically laid out of any digital camera. But with 32 pages containing 149 items, many with their own sub-menus, the manual for the GH4 is labyrinthine. Many photographers faced with this, one of the most sophisticated digital cameras ever produced with its seemingly endless array of options, never fully get to grips with it. That needn't be you.This book offers a blow by blow explanation of the menu items, what they do and why you might want to utilize them, in non-technical language. The last chapter goes through every menu item in order and tells you how the author has his camera set up. You can simply copy these settings to your GH4 and within a few minutes be out and about taking pictures with confidence. While my professional expertise is in stills photography, I cover the video aspects of the GH4 in some detail but would never lay claim to the same expertise that I do in stills.