GH2 Aggravated by this GH2 banding

I picked it up heavily in two situations recently, both with my standard 14-42 and my Takumar 50mm 1.4. The first was goofing around in a garage whilst my friend tapped some screw thread in the cast iron VW Syncro manifold. The garage is lit by 6 CFL 20W globes - I just check, not all the vids I shot that night has the banding - sorry but I can't tell you the settings since I was goofing around with my then week old GH2 :Drogar-Happy(DBG):

The second one was at a live show where they used LED stage lights along with the follow focus lights. Again I didn't pick it up in all the vids, just some of them - again didn't take note of settings since I am still getting to know the camera and was seeing how it reacts in general - plus the standard lens with auto focus just annoys me - will now switch to my manuals. With the LED lighting I did see a video somewhere that a guy shows how this banding appears (not sure which camera he was using) as he dimmed the LED Video lights. The dimmer he went, the worse it got and it seemed to his explanation to have something to do with the lights and not the camera.

Sorry I can't be of more help.
 
naw, its not your cam, they all have banding in certain situations. Happened to me while shooting in New Hmpshire the other day. Would have been an amazing shot for doing a luma key efferct. But it ended up being unuseable. oh well, gotta take the bad with the good, still a great cam though.
 
It's not banding or "camera specific" at all. Banding is something different. That picture shows the same characteristics of what one gets with "certain" flourescent lights @ certain shutter speeds/frequencies. It happens with all video cameras.
 
jweeke said:
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Is this just florescent lighting, or something wrong with the camera?
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Fluorescent lighting is not continuous. A fluorescent tube ballast typically syncs with the local power grid and fires the tube 50/60 times per second. This is completely different than, say, the ballast in a Kinoflo which fires the tubes at such a high rate that the tubes become for all intents and purposes (especially for filming) a continuous light source.

The problem isn't likely your camera -- it's more likely your choice of shutter speed. Just sayin'.
 
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