GH3 GH3 vs 5D MKIII for stills?

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mustangranch99

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I know the 5D3 beats the GH3 for depth of field, but what about actual still image quality? I'll be doing food photography for which I won't be making large prints, just for the web.

Has anybody here used both the GH3 and the 5D3 who can post their experiences/examples?

Thank you.:)
 
mustangranch99 said:
I know the 5D3 beats the GH3 for depth of field, but what about actual still image quality? I'll be doing food photography for which I won't be making large prints, just for the web.

Has anybody here used both the GH3 and the 5D3 who can post their experiences/examples?

Thank you.:)
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first the depth of field just really depends on what lens you use, but mark 3 will absolutely destroy the gh3 in image quality
 
yslee said:
You're not pro till you use medium format. 35mm is for amateurs who can't afford a real camera!
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Sorry to dissapoint you but being a pro means deliver what the customer wants/pays for.
Not on what camera that was used to get there unless they have special demands on file sizes.
 
Considering you can buy three GH3s for the price of one 5Dmk3, yes, the 5D will take better still pictures, all else being equal.
 
For whatever it's worth, here are samples from a recent-ish job shooting stills and video, doc-style. All the images therein came from my humble ol' GH2. My first pro photo job as well, so I'd guess anybody that actually knew what they were doing could pull off a bang up job with either the 5d3 or GH3.

http://www.thespacedowntown.com/home
 
Sorry to hijack a thread but I have a question about shooting RAW stills on the GH3 and using Adobe lightroom that I thought a few people here could help me on.

When importing RAW stills into Lightroom, I open the photo and see a great looking shot for a second or two and then the colors and sharpness change and the image looks pretty poor. Each subsequent time I open the image I just get the poor looking image. So, Lightroom is applying something to the image that is degrading it quality even though it's RAW.

Anyone had similar issues?
 
I'm guessing it's your preview settings:
Choose Edit > Catalog Settings (Windows) or Lightroom > Catalog Settings (Mac OS), and then select File Handling.





For Standard Preview Size, choose the amount that is closest to the longest edge of your screen resolution, but not shorter than it. For example, if your screen resolution is 1920 x 1200 pixels, choose Standard Preview Size > 2048 Pixels.





For Preview Quality, choose Low or Medium, which equates to the low- or mid-range of the quality scale for JPEG files.



 
Ianscreations said:
I'm guessing it's your preview settings:
Choose Edit > Catalog Settings (Windows) or Lightroom > Catalog Settings (Mac OS), and then select File Handling.





For Standard Preview Size, choose the amount that is closest to the longest edge of your screen resolution, but not shorter than it. For example, if your screen resolution is 1920 x 1200 pixels, choose Standard Preview Size > 2048 Pixels.




For Preview Quality, choose Low or Medium, which equates to the low- or mid-range of the quality scale for JPEG files.
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Thanks for your suggestion but its not the Preview setting. The colours change also and I have recently read on a few forums that Lightrooms GH3 RAW camera profile is pretty poor. Am going to try the HueLight GH3 camera profile tomorrow. From the examples I have seen, it handles the colours in a much nicer way, with less clipping and better skin tones. I'll let you know how I get on.

EDIT: If you're interested, I am having issues similar to those in this thread. This is also where I learned about an alternative GH3 camera profile for LR called HueLight: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3452470#forum-post-51146942
 
Until LR gets this corrected, try the Silkypix that came with the camera (on the CD). It takes a bit of learning but is very flexible and I've noticed none of the effects you describe.
 
There's nothing wrong with Lightroom & it's my prefered Raw processing program.

What your seeing is the program initially looking at the Jpeg that's embedded within the Raw (this Jpeg is displayed on the camera's LCD when reviewing), then it updates, & applies the default ACR setting. The intention is you customize the look from there.

If your really bothered by this you can change the default, or just shoot Jpeg & been done with it.
 
Bern Caughey said:
There's nothing wrong with Lightroom & it's my prefered Raw processing program.

What your seeing is the program initially looking at the Jpeg that's embedded within the Raw (this Jpeg is displayed on the camera's LCD when reviewing), then it updates, & applies the default ACR setting. The intention is you customize the look from there.

If your really bothered by this you can change the default, or just shoot Jpeg & been done with it.
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I've been shooting RAW for years with both Canon and Nikon and can't say that I have ever noticed this quality shift when opening an image in LR. As far I know, the embedded JPEG you talk about should be very low res but the image is much higher detailed and contains better colour rendition than the RAW I see seconds later which is rather muddy. This is on a 27" iMac screen. When I have shot RAW+JPEG the JPEG has been visually inferior.

I have now seen quite a few threads that suggest its Adobe's camera profile for the GH3 that is at fault. LR is a great tool but many are getting better results using a third party camera profile.
 
"Specify initial previews when importing

As photos are imported, Lightroom can immediately display a photo’s embedded preview, or display higher-quality previews as the program renders them. Embedded previews are created by cameras and are not color managed, so embedded previews don’t match how Lightroom interprets the camera raw files. Previews rendered by Lightroom take longer to generate but are color managed."

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS2bacbdf8d487e5824c3548c41321737809a-8000.html
 
Bern Caughey said:
"Specify initial previews when importing

As photos are imported, Lightroom can immediately display a photo’s embedded preview, or display higher-quality previews as the program renders them. Embedded previews are created by cameras and are not color managed, so embedded previews don’t match how Lightroom interprets the camera raw files. Previews rendered by Lightroom take longer to generate but are color managed."

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS2bacbdf8d487e5824c3548c41321737809a-8000.html
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It happens when I open the images in the Develop window not the import.
 
AFAIK Lightroom doesn't color manage the Import window.

But it does after, so in the Library window select all the images, & have Lighroom build "Previews".

If you apply looks to groups of photos you'll want to repeat this process.
 
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