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Today we're going to learn about the BGS1 that's the battery grip for the
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Lumix S1 and S1R
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We're gonna start off with how this
mounts on because there's a neat little
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trick that you may not have noticed
unless you read the manual obviously
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it's just gonna screw on to the bottom
there's double tiny little tricks in
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here
first let's take a look at the bottom of
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the camera here you'll notice that there
is this little rubber door rubber flap
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and that is where this is going to
connect to we need to peel that off it
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it completely removes and there's the
point of contact for the grip and you're
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thinking what am I going to do with this
thing I know what I'm gonna do with it
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I'm going to lose it because that is
exactly the kind of thing that you would
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do with it a little part like that and
then you take this part the actual grip
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itself and you'll see that there is a
cover on here to protect these precious
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little pins the pins that are gonna
connect to that bottom part of the
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camera and you've got this little cover
and you're thinking well that's just
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great what are we going to do with this
I know exactly what I can do this same
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that you did with this
I'm gonna lose them no you're not
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because there is not only a storage
place for the cap there's also a storage
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place for the little rubber door if we
take a very close look at the door here
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you'll notice there is a little
illustration that lines up with this
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little tab right there and that tells
you that these go together like so and
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now look your rubber cap is stored
inside of the cap for the battery grip
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itself so now you take this and it
stores into here there we go
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snaps into place it sits flush and you
now have a nice safe storage location
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for the cap and the rubber door the
reason you don't want to lose that
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rubber door is because that rubber door
provides weather sealing to the bottom
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of your S1 or S1R you don't want to
make your camera no longer weather
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sealed and if that's off it's not of
course once you put the grip on to it
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then it's weather sealed again but if
you're gonna take it off you don't want
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to lose that rubber door at this point
is pretty straightforward just mount
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this thing onto here there is a screw
mount on the back little locking screw
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you just thread that thing into place
get that all nice and snug on there and
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that's all there is to that now let's
talk about putting the batteries in so
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you've got a battery door on the top
here open that up you've got your
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battery door on there and there's a
little hole in here right here that pops
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open so that a cable can go through so
if you wanted to you could put a dummy
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battery in here thread the cable through
that hole so this thing could run
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basically forever and ever and not too
many people probably going to do that
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because you do have USB
charging you can actually power the
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camera from USB-C so I don't know how
many people are gonna use that but if
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you're gonna use it it's there if you do
use it you do want to make sure that you
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close this door when you when you're
done with it because again weather
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sealing is really important if this door
is open water could get in there and
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I'll also tell you that getting this
rubber door back in it's a little tricky
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you can you got to pull it from the back
it's like pulling the thread out of a
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sweater you know it's kind of pulled out
you got to reach in behind him now let's
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pop a battery in here interesting point
you can use two batteries in here
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obviously or you can use one you can
have a battery in just in this grip or
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just in the external grip either way
it's up to you maybe you only have one
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battery and you just using the grip
because you like the vertical grip on
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there you don't have to have a battery
in both places and cool point is you can
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have the battery in either one of them
so for most people I think if you're
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using one battery you're gonna store it
in here because that means of course
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then when the battery dies you can
easily get to it to pop it out and
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replace it but if you are constantly
taking the grip on and off and just
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because you wanna have a vertical grip
and you're not so concerned about having
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to take this off to swap out the battery
then you can store it in the handle
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inside as well either way is up to you
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show all right let's plug in the USB
charger 'cause I want to show you something
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about that as well see on the top of the
display here that it now says that it's
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charging and you can see the status of
both batteries on there you see the
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internal one is fully charged and the
battery grip one is in the process of
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charging and you can also control which
battery is going to get used first you
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go to the wrench settings and then this
one that says in/out it's a little box
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with almost a kind of a Wi-Fi signal on
there and then just go down to battery
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use priority and you can set the
priority to the battery grip or the body
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which one do you want it to use first
most people are going to choose to have
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the battery grip is the default one that
way when the battery grip battery dies
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you can pull it out and swap it out and
it
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automatically switch over to the
internal one even if you're shooting
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video live shooting video when the
external battery the one of the better
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grip dies it will carry over
automatically to the internal one
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seamlessly no dropping the video you can
pop that out and replace it with a fresh
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battery which is a really nice feature
to be able to do but if for any reason
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you wanted to choose to use the body
first you can do that as well while
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we're in here I'll show you this there's
a little battery information option in
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here when you pull that up it tells you
the status and the health of your
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batteries these are both brand-new
batteries of course so they're full
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green while you've got two batteries in
here according to these stats you can
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get about 660 photos on the S1R and
about 720 on the S1 now I haven't tested
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that and it actually seems a little on
the low side and I'm gonna guess that
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Panasonic's being pretty conservative on
that 'cause these are pretty big batteries
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obviously they're pretty big cameras as
well but I think you probably get a
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little bit more than that but I have not
tested it so you take that with a grain
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of salt that is what it is now let's
take a look at the tripod socket on the
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bottom because this has a nice little
extra feature on there as well it has a
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pin that's an anti rotation pin for your
tripod place so if you have a plate like
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this one this is a Manfrotto plate it's
got this pin on there then when you put
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these in align those up on there and
start to tighten that down so now I
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haven't tightened it it's just barely
tied on there but now you can see the
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plate will not rotate so that's an anti
rotation pin which is definitely a good
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thing to have on there and then we get
into the buttons on the on the grip
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itself this power button is not going to
power the camera itself on and off this
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is a power switch for the grip so you
still have the power switch on the top
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of the camera that you would use to turn
the camera itself on and off but by
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having a separate power switch for the
grip that means that you won't
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accidentally trigger the camera from the
buttons here or bump into the buttons
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here if you're not using them obviously
when you're holding it like this they're
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out of your way but it's easy enough to
accidentally hit them so if that's
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something you're running into you have
the ability to turn that off there the
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rest of the buttons on here are
essentially repeats of what you find on
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the camera itself so you've got on here
your front dial of course the shutter
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you have a white balance ISO button over
and under exposure there's that power
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button again and the rear command dial
so front command dial and rear command
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dial both recreated on there if we flip
it over this side you'll see you have
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your auto focus on button you have over
here the joystick from
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the focus point around which is a full
rotation as well as a push in joystick
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and then you have a customizable
function button on here as well and that
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customizable function button by default
is set up to be the Q menu but like all
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the function buttons on your lumix
camera you can reprogram that to do
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whatever you want go to the gear menu
and operation one page Fn button set go
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to the record mode you'll see now at the
bottom of the display there we are
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seeing a little better grip on there and
I can tap on that Fn there and set that
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to whatever I want not a complex product
but but it has some nice little
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functions on it I love the fact that you
can store the cap and the cover inside
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of the grip itself so you're never going
to lose that I like that it has the
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locking pin for your tripod plate on the
bottom and of course that it recreates
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all the buttons you're gonna need so
that when you are shooting in a vertical
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orientation you've got access to all the
right buttons we're gonna jump into the
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live Q&A next if you are watching live
stick around for that if you're not
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watching live then the Q&A will pop up
right here!
The rubber door protects the contacts on the camera when the grip is not attached
This cap covers the contacts on the BGS1 itself
The rubber cover fits inside the plastic cap
The plastic cap with the rubber door inside of it store safely in the battery grip itself
AC cable hole found on the bottom of both the camera and the battery grip
When charging the camera via USB-C, you’ll see the charging status of both the camera and the battery grip
The Battery Use Priority menu is in the SETUP menu (the wrench), under IN/OUT
Here you can see the remaining level and the health of each battery in the camera
The anti-rotation pin on the bottom of the battery grip
Button layout on the side/top of the battery grip
Button layout on the back/bottom of the grip
Program the Fn button in the Gear (Custom) > Operation 1 > FN Button Set menu
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