Rant: Stay tuned….

… then you’ll find out the absolute top tip that you’ve never heard of and that we promised you in the video description. No, this is not clickbait. And while you’re at it, subscribe and thumbs and bell and be sure to comment.

I’m sick of hearing and seeing it.

I get a sore throat when an elderly lady tells me with wide-open eyes that she has a “bonus tip” at the end of the video about a “hidden menu in the G9II”. I’m currently writing a book about the camera, so I have to watch the bog. The whole 14:07. It could be that it will give me some really great new insights.

This would actually be the perfect opportunity to finally get into the “reaction video” scene. Watching the thing live and slapping your hands in front of your face at every stupid thing and moaning demonstratively or making corrections. It’s good, gets clicks and all that. And afterwards you can start a great beef with the influencer you’re criticising.

The video is actually about the fact that you can parameterise the monochrome filters on the G9II, that they only affect the JPG and that if you shoot RAW only, you lose the changes as soon as you leave the camera with the RAW. (OMDS supplies a programme called “Workspace” with which you can repeat the set JPG processing from the RAW. The programme supplied by Panasonic is a very, very bad joke).

The bonus tip is how to access the ArtFilters that the camera actually has and that you can also shoot JPG+JPG instead of RAW+JPG. One image with standard processing, one with an effect filter. However, the menu for this is not really “hidden”.

Why don’t these YouTubers say “The menu of the Pana is bodily harm and the manual is an attack on the mental health of the buyer”? Because they want to be portrayed as the heroes who tamed the monster? Or because they want to tell the poor Pana buyers such stories about “hidden menus”?

Or is it simply a prank?