sammysammy
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Guys i just got my second gh1, i lost track of how to get the intermediate ISO's when in manual video mode, can someone please guide me, thanks
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Best ISO's?
- Thread starter mikecazzx
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Guys i just got my second gh1, i lost track of how to get the intermediate ISO's when in manual video mode, can someone please guide me, thanks
Switch to a photo mode, go into the photo menu, go to ISO steps or something like that, and select 1/3 EV instead of 1 EV.
sammysammy
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ok ,cool ,thanks Ccolton
I'm the guy who did the test, but I'm skeptical about my own conclusions. Somebody in Germany did a test that shows ISO 320 and 640 to have a ton of chroma noise in the shadows. I did my own follow-up and sure enough, in real world shooting (as opposed to shooting the lens cap like I did in my first test), ISO 640 looked noisy. Honestly, in real world shooting, I've found every ISO from 160 to 400 to look gorgeous. Above that, 800 and 1600 are my favorites. I avoid 640 because of chroma noise, and I avoid 1000 and 2000 because of how bad they looked in my original test. 2500 and 3200 are for absolute emergencies only.
Here's the other guy's test that shows 320 and 640 to look bad:
However, like I said above, in my experience 320 is fine.
I wonder why sometimes the video looks more dark with higher ISO than with the lower ISO before. Isnt there already noise with 160 already hehe, actually our city is not HongKong and i would need 1600-3200, with 800 i could do not much outside in the night. (with 50mm 1.8).
Hey everyone, I wanted to update my position on film modes. On a GH1, so presumably also on a GH2, the film mode I use up to ISO 640 or 800 is Smooth -2,0,0,-2. I've tested film modes for low light noise reduction and found Standard +2,+2,0-2 to retain the most detail and accurate color rendering in low light, with the least noise. I am actually comfortable shooting with that film mode at ISO1600 on my GH1, whereas Smooth only goes up to 640 or 800 before looking noisy. There's some noise with Standard +2,+2,0,-2 but as long as the entire scene isn't underexposed, it pretty much just looks like film grain.