PaPa
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I got my GH2 in the mail today, installed the 65Mbps kae patch with GOP 3 and was really curious to compare the AF100 and the GH2 side by side. But what i wanted to see more was them at their worst.
I basically bounced a 1k light off of the wall/ceiling, started with a nikon 24mm lens at F2 and went all the way down the F16 with both cameras. I should mention that i really wanted to blow things out so i put both cameras at ISO 800. The AF100 was a 1/48th shutter and the GH2 was at 1/50th.
The af100 settings were:
Detail and V detail at -6
Chroma at -5
CineD gamma
Norm 2 matrix
everything else at 0
The GH2 had 3 different film modes all with their settings dialed down to -2
Cinema
Smooth
Nostalgia
You can draw your own conclusions from this little unscientific test, but one thing i did notice that was the similarity between the AF100 cinegamma and the GH2 cinema film mode. As people have expressed on the forums, they clip similarly, but what i did not expect was for the AF100 to be almost an entire stop more sensitive ( in appearance ) to the GH2 at the same ISO and F stop.
In the raw format, you can clearly see the benefit of the increased bitrate of the GH2, which actually took my breath away. The only thing that's bugging me at the moment is that even with all the settings dialed down on the GH2, i still find it MUCH to contrasty out of the camera. I wish there was a way to dial it down even further.
It's interesting to see how much more sensitive to light Nostalgia is over Smooth, and even more so over Cinema. But i find that although they clip to white very gracefully, the opposite is happening at the black end. The blacks clip much too quickly for me and they are just too dark in general, even if it's not hitting 0 IRE.
No color correction has gone on any of these clips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMfegii95Y&hd=1
I basically bounced a 1k light off of the wall/ceiling, started with a nikon 24mm lens at F2 and went all the way down the F16 with both cameras. I should mention that i really wanted to blow things out so i put both cameras at ISO 800. The AF100 was a 1/48th shutter and the GH2 was at 1/50th.
The af100 settings were:
Detail and V detail at -6
Chroma at -5
CineD gamma
Norm 2 matrix
everything else at 0
The GH2 had 3 different film modes all with their settings dialed down to -2
Cinema
Smooth
Nostalgia
You can draw your own conclusions from this little unscientific test, but one thing i did notice that was the similarity between the AF100 cinegamma and the GH2 cinema film mode. As people have expressed on the forums, they clip similarly, but what i did not expect was for the AF100 to be almost an entire stop more sensitive ( in appearance ) to the GH2 at the same ISO and F stop.
In the raw format, you can clearly see the benefit of the increased bitrate of the GH2, which actually took my breath away. The only thing that's bugging me at the moment is that even with all the settings dialed down on the GH2, i still find it MUCH to contrasty out of the camera. I wish there was a way to dial it down even further.
It's interesting to see how much more sensitive to light Nostalgia is over Smooth, and even more so over Cinema. But i find that although they clip to white very gracefully, the opposite is happening at the black end. The blacks clip much too quickly for me and they are just too dark in general, even if it's not hitting 0 IRE.
No color correction has gone on any of these clips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMfegii95Y&hd=1
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