Adventures in the PSE

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I just saw a deal for the GF3 for $399 plus a free $75 gift card at Target. Is the GF3 close enough in image quality and color reproduction to the GH2 to use for this color matching project we've started here?

The deal ends tonight.

EDIT: I bought it, but if anyone has compared the GH2 and GF3 for color compatibility, it'd be good to have your input.
 
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James0b57 said:
I just saw a deal for the GF3 for $399 plus a free $75 gift card at Target. Is the GF3 close enough in image quality and color reproduction to the GH2 to use for this color matching project we've started here?

The deal ends tonight.

EDIT: I bought it, but if anyone has compared the GH2 and GF3 for color compatibility, it'd be good to have your input.
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No idea- I'm only familiar with folks using and comparing the GH series for video. However, I would imagine much of their color would be similar across all models.
I don't know much about the GF cameras (people seem to like them for pocket-sized photography), but I think you can a refurbished GH1 for around the same price as that.
 
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Thanks M, they really take on different personalities from raw to video. Overall, they are a lot closer than I thought they'd be.
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In many ways. Notice how the video actually has a wider FOV. That's because the sensor on the GH2 is multiple aspect ratios- it actually switches to a different set of active pixels off the sensor to go to 16:9 wide instead of cropping downward the way Canon does. Its a really interesting little camera, I must admit.
 
as delivered (with contrast=0), that Cinema1L picture style is waaaay too contrasty for me
cinema1L_0.jpg

with contrast=-4, it looks much better (much smoother light response, contrast distributed equally across the image), but still it has some problems in the highlights: it's trying to save them from clipping, not succeeding (as every other option: highlights hard-clip at nearly the same spot no matter what you do), and throwing away a fairly big chunk of the codec's color space in the process
cinema1L_4.jpg

which leads me to my Flaat_2 picture style, which is not too far away from that but saves that part of color space to push up the shadows, and brings up about one stop more DR
flaat_2.jpg


but that's just theory and scopes
would you test it and tell me what you think of it in a real-world situation?
(it should be particularly good for skin tones)
http://www.similaar.com/foto/flaat-picture-styles/index.html
 
Here's another example video of James' R303L picture style. Very light grading on the interview portion only, everything else straight out of the camera. All tungstan lighting.

 
I wonder what happened to James0b57... I was excited to see what he would come up with to compare GH2 with Canon footage. :)
 
ok thanks.

I have a question about how to make an interview, how do you do to make a plan of the woman and then a " zoomed plan of her " with the same sound ( do you have 2 cameras ? )
 
Looks good Gary. I think a slight bit of saturation would be perfect, that's obviously my opinion. I really like the 'washed' out look of that though. Certainly better than overly saturated or too much contrast.
 
Cool to see that Canon finally got the Utility compatible with Mac Lion OS! Makes things easier, as most of the time, I am on a Lion setup.

I've been quite busy, I have a slower week this week. Just shot a brief caucasian skin tone test with cinestyle, marvel v3.4, R3_0701L, Neutral(-4-2), and all the default Canon styles. SHould have that edited together soon.

@M. Gilden, I am looking forward to getting back to the Panasonic/EOS picture style. I have a GF3 at my disposal and may use that as the reference, unless it is too different from the GH line. f that is the case, I may need your help in getting more side by side images for comparisons, if you have time for that.
 
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