GH1 PAL versus NTSC

I live in PAL-land, but am expecting to shoot (and live) in the U.S. in the next year, so I'm trying to get this decision right. Basically, I'm trying to figure out which camera is the "least bad" under the wrong kind of electric lights.

I have read commanderspike's useful post at the top of this thread listing the modes available with an NTSC camera under 50Hz electric lighting. Seems like it can be made to work. But does anyone have any concrete information on what modes will work with a PAL camera under 60Hz lighting?
 
hello
all very interesting and confusing, alas i am new to all of this and something of an ignoramus... anyway,... my question is:

Should I get a pal or ntsc gh1?
My use will be to make short films/animations, filming model sets and nature and compositing cgi stuff. I live in the UK, or 'pal' land I suppose.

I like the idea of slow motion, and it seems that the 'workflow' involves recompiling all of the footage in various ways (very confusing).

Am i best off getting the pal model? I thought I heard that bluray hd was 24p...
but burning to dvds (more likely) then 25p, and internet video... God knows.
Apologies for all this floating, I've been reading up on the Gh1 for weeks but am finding everything a bit contradictory, if only in the sense that my brain is tying it's self in knots. Any advice very appreciated... The ntsc one is also available for $1200 from Made in Japan online which is pretty good (unless it comes in japanese which I can't figure out)

Blah!

Many thanks for any tips, interesting forum and lots of knowledge on hand, looking forward to some of this stuff making more sense.

Daniel
 
If you live in the UK then go for the PAL model. You will be saving yourself a ton of grief. If you know that most of your work is going to 24p then retiming to that from 25p is a relatively easy step. I would say only go for the NTSC model if you really know why you need to. Hope that helps.
 
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