GH2 Native GH3 I-Frame 72Mbs Video

Thomas Smet said:
Ok people we can all relax now. Somebody finally posted a cat video with the GH3.
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lol

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I BET, that everyone that has posted here about cats and flowers IN FACT has shot their cat and their garden IF they have either of the two. They just don't have the balls to post the shots...
Why do people shoot cats with newly released cameras???? Well, it's a great way to see if your sub $2000 "cinema" camera does in fact exhibit aliasing.

I have 3 cats. They are used as models and aliasing tests for every new camera purchase.

I'd love to see ANY of you with a PRE-PRODUCTION camera post your short film so we can all pick it apart and criticize you.

So far NOT ONE post about image quality in this thread. The guy shot all sorts of examples at markets, buildings, skin tones and detail, and you all focus on CATS???? How about thanking the guy that shot this so that you can see EARLY examples of a camera that YOU ALL are interested in. There will be a day with attitudes like this that sample footage will not be shared due to way some receive it and post feedback.

GROW UP!
 
dustylense said:
I BET, that everyone that has posted here about cats and flowers IN FACT has shot their cat and their garden IF they have either of the two. They just don't have the balls to post the shots...
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We are just jealous that we don't have cats! GD dogs all over teh place ....:huh:


As for cat videos, I am sure you have probably seen this, but I can't help it; It is good!

"Henri the Ennui Cat" (Actually, "Henri 2, Paw de Duex") Great filmmaking ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q34z5dCmC4M

"I awake to the same tedium ..."


Reminds me of my undergraduate days as a Philosophy student. Reading Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" while my girlfrend shopped at a garden store. Talk about missing out on life ... :)

Cheers! Back to camera analysis.

Michael
 
That footage looks very, very good! I watched it online, I don't have time to download yet.

I'll download and watch it on my twin HD monitor, calibrated setup later.

Great days! A little expensive as a 3rd camera, behind my main stills and my main video cameras ... Wish I could grab a used one!! Soon enough.

Best,
Michael
 
Calm down. Just a spot of fun.

When I got my 17.5, the first thing I shot was cats... in slow motion... with some world music... on PURPOSE... and posted it... because it was hilarious. Well, to me, at least. There's nothing cruel about playing with stereotypes.

One of my absolute favorite current commercials is one for Kenmore refridgerators... it starts out with a young, attractive hipster couple cavorting on a beach with bouncy light hipster music and all the prerequisite flarey, retro-ey DSLR-style video style. Then they both run smack into a bunch of refrigerators on the beach and are knocked cold.

oh yeah, here it is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXbzAbFyEjs

Have fun with life.
 
dustylense said:
I BET, that everyone that has posted here about cats and flowers IN FACT has shot their cat and their garden IF they have either of the two. They just don't have the balls to post the shots...
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I have neither of the two...I'm a dog person... Did a macro-ish piece on bees, don't think that counts, not my spot. Yes the footage is gorgeous, especially the cat scenes, great color and sharp, without being too sharp.

Just jokes people...
 
Nothing against cat shots at all. I love them. It was totally a joke poking fun at how people complain about always seeing camera tests of cats. Not making fun of the footage at all. I think it looks great and I'm still trying to absorb it all. Without a side by side I don't really want to compare. What I can say is that I like what I see. I mean did any us really expect Panasonic to royally screw up the GH3? I think we all knew it would look great because the GH1 and GH2 looked great. Unless everybody at Panasonic took a stupid pill I sort of expected it to be just as good if not better. Still hard to say if it is better or not but it sure does look clean.

I think I noticed a few intraframe type image artifacts in a couple of places but that is to be expected with intraframe encoding at only 72mbits. Something I expect will largely get cleaned up when it is hacked. Not bad at all and I'm still not sure if that was it or not.

Aliasing does look better but again without a side by side it is kind of hard to say. I know I saw a couple of shots with aliasing in Bloom's piece but in this one not so much. The hair on the cat actually did look very clean and it was an area I expected the 72mbits to fall apart. Of course it helps the encoder when a large part of the frame is out of focus. I think at higher a ISO we may notice the 72mbit mode to fall apart a little bit easier. Again nothing a good ole hack wouldn't fix.

Overall I like what I see what I agree with Barry Green that the encoder may still be a bit starved for those of us used to the high bitrate hacks.
 
Thomas Smet said:
did any us really expect Panasonic to royally screw up the GH3?
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I had my fears. From my "event shooter's" viewpoint, they royally screwed up the AF-100. I mean, who the hell makes a video camera without any sort of servo zoom?! It's just unheard of. Even the Varicam can be quipped with servo zoom lenses.
 
Jim Simon said:
I'm curious what kind of artifact could possibly be caused solely by recording every frame as an independent whole.
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It all depends on the bitrate. If there isn't enough bandwidth, then each and every frame *could* be affected. Just try saving a JPG out of PhotoShop using the lowest-quality (i.e., lowest-bandwidth) option, and see how it looks.

If there's more than enough bandwidth, all-intraframe is superior. If there isn't enough bandwidth, the efficiencies of long-GoP compression can go a long way towards making even better looking footage than low-bandwidth intraframe.

Of course, too-low-bandwidth long-GoP is the worst of all worlds.
 
Jim Simon said:
I had my fears. From my "event shooter's" viewpoint, they royally screwed up the AF-100.
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Jim, your commentary is frequently profoundly negative and completely unrealistic. The AF100 was never intended to be an "event shooter's camera". And even if one were forced into shooting events on it, I'd dare say it's a thousand times better to use it, than to use the "competition" (aka, a DSLR). Shooting an event on a DSLR is pure torture. The AF100 overcomes practically all those limitations, lacking only a motorized servo zoom. Oh, wait, it also has two of those. As good as an ENG camera? No -- so if that's what you want, then buy an ENG camera.
 
Barry_Green said:
Jim, your commentary is frequently profoundly negative and completely unrealistic. The AF100 was never intended to be an "event shooter's camera". And even if one were forced into shooting events on it, I'd dare say it's a thousand times better to use it, than to use the "competition" (aka, a DSLR). Shooting an event on a DSLR is pure torture. The AF100 overcomes practically all those limitations, lacking only a motorized servo zoom. Oh, wait, it also has two of those. As good as an ENG camera? No -- so if that's what you want, then buy an ENG camera.
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Yeah. I still use my trusty HVX200 for "event" shooting......
 
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