GH1 First impressions and footage

philip bloom

philip bloom

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Well I took it out for first time yesterday and shot some footage. All handheld.

It performed really well. Very nice image.

The stock lens is too slow making low light ugly as the very high ISO has some horrible banding issues. But I wlll be getting my Nikon adaptor tomorrow so will be able to use my fast Zeiss primes and I will be able to do some proper low light filming.

The mic is pretty good. Not great, but does it's job.

But mostly I LOVED the manual controls for exposure, love the ability to use auto focus and face recognition whilst filming and loved the long recording time...

You can read more of my thoughts here:
My first impressions review is up...video is uploading as we speak!!!
http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/04/30/panasonic-lumix-gh1-first-impressions-and-first-footage/

The video is currently uploading, I will update the blog entry as soon as it is uploaded and transcoded.

Phil
 

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I'm interested in hearing how well the Nikon adapter works. Thanks for sharing the info.
 
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Thanks for the review, Philip. Nicely done as always. The only thing I look forward to as much as your camera reviews are the cool t-shirts you possess. :thumbsup:

Looking forward to the video.
 
Hey Phil- you have some misinformation on your blog.

excerpt:
"This camera is NOT a 35mm camera it uses the micro four thirds technology which roughly equates to a 16mm sensor"

Its actually about 90% of the frame sized used for shooting 4K with the Red.
 
hunter richards said:
Hey Phil- you have some misinformation on your blog.

excerpt:
"This camera is NOT a 35mm camera it uses the micro four thirds technology which roughly equates to a 16mm sensor"
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When I say 35mm I am not talking academy frame 35mm which is what the RED shoots, I am talking full frame sensor like the 5dmk2 which it is roughly half the size of give or take...
 
Super 16mm 1.66:1 is 12.4mm x 7.5mm, and that's without a 16:9 crop. So the 4/3" sensor surface area is significantly bigger than the Super 16mm surface area.

What that means is that you would be using longer lenses in general to achieve the same FOV as Super 16mm, longer lenses equating to shallower depth of field.

I'm afraid that also means Super 16mm glass will not have enough coverage for the 4/3 sensor except perhaps for the longer focal lengths on some zooms.

Am I beating this to death?
 
Let's just say it's smaller than the Canon 5dmk2 sensor ;-)

Video is uploaded and transcoding now. Keep checking back to the Blog page now...very soon. Shame the compression isn't doing it that many favours. I am hoping to get someone to host the full 1.5gb version for me...
 
the kit lens looks better than I expected in the pool hall. What were your aperture/ISO/shutter settings in that shot?
 
squig said:
the kit lens looks better than I expected in the pool hall. What were your aperture/ISO/shutter settings in that shot?
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mmm...think it was 400 or 800....

aperture was wide open at 4 for the full wide shots and down to about 5.6 for the longer lens stuff. shutter was at 30.
 
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