GH2 How i'm working with the issues of the GH2

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DevonH

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I've done a bit of complaining here about the GH2 (mainly trying to get decent color via the built in LCD and on my DP6). After a little bit of testing, and a lot of reading, I've come to the following conclusions and feel now it's time to just get out and shoot (I've been a bit scared up till this point).

1. Follow Kholi's suggestion of Standard -2,-2,-2,-2, with either lpowell's new hack, or AV2.
2. Follow the suggestions in this thread of ISO 320 & 640, and mind the bug.
3. Use the settings put forth in this thread for my DP6.
4. Follow the advice of qwerty123 from the above thread of trusting a solid white balance off my white card.
5. Using the false color features of the DP6 to ensure I've got proper IRE readings on my skin tones.
6. Run everything through 5dtoRGB using Kholi's nifty tutorial.
7. Denoise when I can afford to purchase a denoiser.

This post may seem a bit useless, but I'd like to collect a few final thoughts from people. I've spent so much time in the past two months just scared to actually use the GH2, worrying about colors being off, and about having to wait until I get to my edit bay to see if I got solid footage. I fully appreciate everyone that spends hours upon hours running tests.

-Devon
 
I think a lot of new GH2 users become very intimidated at first glance through the forums, or when just dealing with the camera.
 
I love how people get so bent out of shape about color profiles, the nuances of the hacks, etc, when in reality, no one in your audience will likely recognize or care in the slightest about these minor technical variations. Just shoot already!
 
Hehe, ras, I was looking at test footage the other day, picking out noise in the most "meaningless" parts of scenes the audience would never even notice, it's a bad practice.
 
If you ever shoot anything for a commercial client - they will nit-pick it TO DEATH.
So it can be worth the extra tweaking.
 
The OP is interesting and I agree with you.

Let's try to stay on the subject.
Wether people want to pixel peep or not is their own choice. (also personal view is more the home of hack and infinite image tweak, I feel like DVXuser is more about the general use and usability o the camera)
 
So, I went out and applied these concepts on a shoot today, and I'm blown away. I gave Driftwoods new "Quantum X v2" (which just got an update to v3/v4), and I suggest you give it a shot.
 
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