GH1/GH13 vs. 60D

Hmm. Yeah. Well I've been wanting to avoid it for now because of the price and it just doesn't seem very much like a film making lens. But how well do you find it cuts together with manual primes (if you use them). I thought it might look too sharp and video-y as some people describe it. If it was wider I would just plop down the money but not too sure about it right now. I know the 14mm one will be out soon but that is even more pricey I believe. 400 ish. At that price I'd rather hold out for the tokina 11-16. But do you have any sample work which mixes the 20mm and manual primes? Thanks.

EDIT: Just watched a bunch of test footage from the 20mm. I think I'm sold. It's pricier than I wanted and not as wide but I think the 1.7 and AF for pics makes it worth it. It seems to look worst in daylight stopped down, just in a sort of bland way (whereas older lenses might have more character). Many lenses look that way though I suppose. I'll be using old zeiss glass for my other primes and it looks like it will match well enough. Now I just need to find a cheap used copy. Let me know if u are reading this and have one.
 
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paulmeyer said:
Welcome Jackson, you will not regret it. Just to vindicate, this is from the footage forum:

http://hillsgreen.blogspot.com/
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Ahh damn you haha I thought you were saying those screengrabs were from the 20mm pancake. They look very excellent nontheless. I scanned your film thread a while ago, well read more in depth when I am able to as it is my goal to shoot a feature soon as well.

Btw got the 20mm used for $300. I've got a lot of new gear coming in :D It needs to hurry up and get here though.
 
The 20mm pancake lens is kick ass. Bring your camera right up to someone's face.. about 2 feet away.... bang.. beauty close up shots with shallow depth of field in any light.
 
Hmmm yeah thats how lots of primes are ;) But it just got here tonight actually and I am liking it (the lens) so far.

Quick question, I imported the hacked avchd into Imovie because my version of FCP is just before they added support for avchd otherwise I would have figured it out on there. Anyways Imovie imports it as apple intermediate codec. It looks very interlaced though. Is that because I used Imovie? Or does that happen no matter what? Also I am wondering if I should bother converting to prores or another codec since apple intermediate might work for this project. After this I am updating fcp and this project doesn't need to look... well I want it to look good but it's not the most important project I've done.
 
Jackson Miller said:
Hmmm yeah thats how lots of primes are ;) But it just got here tonight actually and I am liking it (the lens) so far.

Quick question, I imported the hacked avchd into Imovie because my version of FCP is just before they added support for avchd otherwise I would have figured it out on there. Anyways Imovie imports it as apple intermediate codec. It looks very interlaced though. Is that because I used Imovie? Or does that happen no matter what? Also I am wondering if I should bother converting to prores or another codec since apple intermediate might work for this project. After this I am updating fcp and this project doesn't need to look... well I want it to look good but it's not the most important project I've done.
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If it's 1080/24p you'll need to remove the pulldown.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthrea...Removal-using-FCP-JES-Deinterlacer-Compressor
 
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