GH-1 Goes to the Thrift Store

Well I'm impressed and excited about the camera again! I noticed a couple artifacts here and there (some banding in the close-ups of clothing on the rack, mixed with lower light) but overall it looked really great. Even the somewhat overexposed stuff had a nice filmic feeling to it. I viewed the downloaded Vimeo version on a 24" screen from about 3ft away - impressive. Will try it out on the 40" Samsung later.

Compression is kinda nasty on the surprise footage at the end, when he runs up the tree. Fortunately the stuff I tend to shoot is much more like the first section of the video, so thumbs up from me!
 
I threw EVERYTHING in there. LoL. The overexposed, the underexposed, and yeah that really ugly compression mishap at the end.

That was all 1080/24. Just an example of why you should shoot anything high motion in 720/60P.

I wasn't holding anything back, though. You guys see some good and some bad out of the camera right there.
 
Looks awesome Kholi. Love the video; Your GF looks like a twin of my first GF. Lol.

This is great impromptu filming and demonstrates the GH1 quite well. If it can look this good just having fun, then it's very is to imagine under the scope of coordinated shots in a production will exceed this even way more;and this is good stuff already.

Gotta love how the large sensor handles blow out windows too!

Looks like you getting more of a handle on this camera to get the look you want too.

By the way the 60P to 24 looks flawless from what I can see on the system I'm on. I will project your footage on 13 foot screen tomorrow.

Me still wants your cookies; homemade?





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I'll let you guys know exactly which ones are 720/60P as soon as more people watch it.

And yeah, Pappas. Right now I'm JUST trying to tweak my own look and application as far as lensing goes. I really love this 28-70 Macro Zoom, but I need to figure out how to tweak the color so that it matches the rest of the glass.

It loses contrast wide open.
 
Dang man...to me at least it ALL looked good. I came in (or at least tried to) with a very critical eye and expected the worst. But...it was so clean. Did you apply a denoiser in post or anything? I don't know what I was worried about because if you can get that kind of look out of the 24p...then psst...I'm game. The original file is still downloading...but even on Vimeo it looked very good to me. Was that very last OOps scene the same camera?
 
I didn't touch a single thing in post. It's all just cut on the timeline and exported.

The oops thing is my next GH-1 Camera test and yes, it was the GH-1. 28-70 Zeiss Zoom. Subway short... inspired by Stu over at ProLost.
 
LOL...I'm going to bed. All this worrying for nothing made me tired. Kholi man thanks a lot for those footage....and I'm definitely looking forward to that next camera test. Seriously. I thought you were going to say that you snuck the Red One in there. Peace ...I'm out.
 
Yeah, this looked really good.

2 Questions:

Is the color banding there in 720/60p material as well?

Did she get the Member's Only jacket? That thing was bomb, I have one myself :)

Edit: One more question. There is a shot where she walks over to the counter and you follow her and the Jell-o turns up. If you shoot at a faster shutter speed (say 1/250th) is that problem minimized at all?

Thanks for all the work you have done Kholi, the community really appreciates it.
 
Wow, that footage looks really good for a trip to the thrift store. There will be some amazing things shot with this little stealth cam.

I like it! Sweeeeeet!

HURRY PANNY I want my freakn' GH1 now!
 
I think the banding may be a bit more controlled in 720/60P. I haven't done that test yet. Oh and I also think the banding is MUCH more apparent in lower ISO settings. I'm not FOR sure on this, but it seems like every time I get anywhere between 320 ISO it starts banding more. This is going to be my next little "experiment" so stay tuned.

And yeah, lol, she got the Members Only Jacket. It was brand new, and green. So she had to get it.
 
William_Robinette said:
Edit: One more question. There is a shot where she walks over to the counter and you follow her and the Jell-o turns up. If you shoot at a faster shutter speed (say 1/250th) is that problem minimized at all?

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The Jello gets worse with higher shutter speeds. The only real way to avoid it (just being honest here) is to shoot 720/60P.

I specifically showed that action stuff at the end to let people see what happens in a different situation. For all of that test footage I DID shoot 720/60P, but got some 1080/24 just to make sure I knew what I was looking at.

There are workarounds, I regretfully need to reiterate, just have to figure out if they're right for the job.
 
Cute girl. ;-) Following her, it shouldn't be an easy task. BTW, how have you been finding the autofocus feature?
 
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Good job Kholi.

How different would this look with the stock pany lens? Less DOF and the need for higher ISO? Is the stock lens worth shooting with? I hear they won't be selling it without the lens for a while. Apparently you can pull focus with the LCD okay? And what is the K Rig.

Thanks for the testing. You're my new hero (slide over Barry Green).
 
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Good job Kholi.

How different would this look with the stock pany lens? Less DOF and the need for higher ISO? Is the stock lens worth shooting with? I hear they won't be selling it without the lens for a while. Apparently you can pull focus with the LCD okay? And what is the K Rig.

Thanks for the testing. You're my new hero (slide over Barry Green).
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The stock Panasonic 14-140/F4~5.6 is an excellent lens.

If you want an example of how the DOF will be affected at F4, take a look at the parts where I'm zooming in and out. That's with the Contax Zeiss 28-70/3.4 Wide open.

Most of the footage around that section is with this same lens wide open.

I'll use the Kit Lens for lots of stuff, especially anything that can use the extra OIS stabilization. Color matching will probably be the issue but it's not too difficult.

I can pull Focus a-okay with the lcd. It's a big relief to be able to use it like an HVX's LCD, flip it out, rotate it to comfort and roll with it. I often FORGET that you can do that and go... "Oh... why am I trying to bend my head down so far!?!?"

The K-Rig is a bootlegged Redrock shoulder Mount rig reformatted for a DSLR. There are some pictures of it in the GH1 hardware section.
 
By the way, had two people ask me in private if there was any color correction or adjustments done to this. None what-so-ever outside of what Quicktime does on its own. I didn't touch it, just edited.

Also, the very last shot of the backflip was strictly to illustrate a point. It's just how the compression breaks up but I shot most of my action rehearsal at 720/60P and it looks excellent.
 
Looks great. First GH1 footage that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Good work.

My guesses for the 60p shots are:

0:13
1:10
3:09
3:16
3:20
3:23

-- Xavier
 
Kholi said:
Also, the very last shot of the backflip was strictly to illustrate a point. It's just how the compression breaks up but I shot most of my action rehearsal at 720/60P and it looks excellent.
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So the very last shot was 1080p or 720/60p? Sorry, I'm confused.
 
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