Full-time Live View shows you - before you shoot - how the settings change the photo.
Taking photos is a lot more fun when you don't have to struggle to get perfect images. With the LUMIX G Micro System – and its Full-time Live View – usiing a digital interchangeable lens camera is now as easy as using a digital compact camera.

The LUMIX G Micro System can display guidelines and a histogram on the LCD and Live View Finder along with the image composition. But more than that, you can see through them – before pressing the shutterbutton – how the exposure compensation and white balance adjustment will affect the photo.

You can even see how adjusting the aperture and shuttter speed settings will affect the photo. In other words, the LUMIX G Micro System gives you easy Live View shooting that simply isn't possible with conventional digital SLR cameras.

Bright and easy-to-see free-angle LCD

The large 3.0-inch LCD rotates 180º horizontally and 270º vertically, making it easy for you to capture dynamic shots from extreme angles without getting into an awkward posittion.And when the lighting around you changes, the LCD backlighting level automatically changes too, so you get comfortable, easy-on-the-eyes viewing at all times.

Live View Finder - an electronic viewfinder complete with Full-time Live View

You've never looked into a viewfinder like this one. Developed by Panasonic for the LUMIX G Micro System, this high-performance electronic viewfinder boasts a Full-time Live View function that converts the optical viewfinder unit into a digital form. You expperience a new level of shooting convenience through the high-performance viewfinder that is simply not possible with optical viewfinders of the past.

The LUMIX G Micro System's Live View Finder has the large 1.4x (0.7x*) magnification and 100% field of view of the optical viewfinders on high-end digital SLR cameras. This, plus the 1,440,000-dot equivalent resolution, makes it easy to shoot the exact image the camera sees. *35 mm equivalent.

When you look into the viewfinder, a sensor automatically turns the Live View Finder on and the LCD off. You enjoy smoother, easier shooting without having to switch the setting of the display.

Customize the camera to fit your shooting preference by changing the display style or switching to a full-screen display. The LUMIX G Micro System also features the Quick Menu that's popular on LUMIX compact digital cameras, so you can make a variety of settings without taking your eye from the Live View Finder.

iA mode can make all the right settings – automatically

If you've resisted buying a digital SLR camera because you think they're hard to use, your wait is over. Meet the LUMIX G Micro System, with iA (Intelligent Auto) mode. A big hit in LUMIX compact digital cameras, iA mode activates six detection and compensation functions that work automaticcally, leaving you free to just aim and shoot. It's easier to get a beautiful shot any time, any place.

Advanced contrast AF helps make Full-time Live View even more effective

To optimize the use of Full-time Live View, the LUMIX G Micro System uses contrast AF rather than the conventional phase difference AF. This makes it possible to offer functions like Face Detection AF and AF Tracking that digital SLR cameras with phase difference AF can't match.

Once you've focused on a subject, the AF Tracking function keeps the focus locked on that subject – even if the subject moves – until you press the shutter button. This helps you get clear, sharp, foccused photos even when shooting kids or pets that won't hold still.

The auto focus system uses 23 areas all around the frame to optimize the focusing for the scene you're shooting. This makes it easier to frame a shot when you don't know exactly where the subject will appear, because you can simply leave the focusing to the camera.

When using 1-area AF mode, you can move the auto-foccusing area in the frame. You can also change the size of focus area to Spot, Normal, L, or XL to fine-tune the focusing in complicated shooting compositions.

The camera begins focusing the instant it determines you're in a shooting stance. This system focuses quicker than the usual method of pressing the shutter button halfway, so you're ready sooner to capture the moment.
*The focus speed may be slower in dark surroundings.

The open standard that led to the mirror-less body

The LUMIX G Micro System adopts the Micro Four Thirds System standard, developed as an extended version of the Four Thirds System standard for digital camera systems. Using this standard, and developing a camera body that eliminates the mirror box and optical viewfinder unit, the lens mount outer diameter was reduced by about 6 mm (compared with the conventional Four Thirds camera) and shorten the flange-back distance* by about half. Removing the mirror box also makes for smoother operation. The result is a digital interchangeable lens camera that's both extremely compact and highly mobile. The LUMIX G Micro System is a camera that you can take anywhere – and that, in turn, can take you as far as you want to go.
*The distance between the lens mount and image sensor.

These interchangeable lenses, designed exclusively for the Micro Four Thirds cameras, brings out the full potential of the 4/3-type image sensor. For instance, some aspherical lenses and ED lenses can ensure the impressive image rendering even in the smaller size than the Four Thirds lens. Also, as a prerequisite for Full-time Live View shooting, all lenses support contrast AF.

The LUMIX G lenses incorporate Panasonic's MEGA O.I.S., the advanced optical image stabilization system that has highly proven in LUMIX digital cameras. In the LUMIX G lenses, efficient stabilization elaborated by a special integrated LSI that processes output from the gyrosensors, which operate 4,000 times per second. This enhanced system helps achieve an exceptional hand-shake compensation performance.