New Pal GH1 inc link to footage

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AndyW69

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Hi, got the GH1 on saturday, took it out for a spin that pm, I hadn't read the manual by then so mostly fully auto. I do wish I'd taken a tripod, I did get a lot of mud on the whip pans at the end of shots or when moving during a shot. In general I'm really impressed, if you move gently and edit wisely it produces stunning images.

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Beautiful . I love the sharpness of the stocks lens. And the color is great. The good thing with the GH1 is that you can get one of the new very light tripods that have nice fluid heads for panning. Thanks for posting. Still one more piece showing how great this cam is. Did you use autofocus or manual?
 
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How unfortunate though, it's a Pal 1080 25p. From what I'm being told, the pal 1080/50i mode compresses better than the 1080/60i. If true, it's nothing to be excited about in 60i land. We can't obtain every little "bit" that GH1 1080/60i needs...


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I used auto focus mainly, switched over on some of the plant shots as it was hunting when the wind moved the flowers. The screen jumps to a zoom automatically when you focus in manual mode
Andy
 
There was alot of mud in shots when quick panning. I edited most of it out, I like the idea of shooting with this camera mainly on a tripod without zooms and limited use of pans

And
 
Vimeo on my core 2 laptop with vista 64 is really stuttery, my main edit machine has a quad core with winxp and runs the files much smoother

Andy
 
There was alot of mud in shots when quick panning.
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Other shooters are trying this settings below to minimize the "mud effect" on 1080. Can you please try it and report back to us please. We would also like to see more normal panning with the settings. Thanks.

shooting full HD with +2 sharpness and noise reduction OFF seemed to cure the issue or at least make it much less noticeable.
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PappasArts said:
How unfortunate though, it's a Pal 1080 25p. From what I'm being told, the pal 1080/50i mode compresses better than the 1080/60i. If true, it's nothing to be excited about in 60i land. We can't obtain every little "bit" that GH1 1080/60i needs...


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Come on, no need to be melodramatic.
 
The 1080/60i compression is going to be fine. You will see. Then it will be something else to complain about of course. We are going to have a very good time shooting with this cam in the good old USof A. Remember my words.
 
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AndyW69 said:
There was alot of mud in shots when quick panning. I edited most of it out, I like the idea of shooting with this camera mainly on a tripod without zooms and limited use of pans

And
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Hey Andy, any chance you can upload the shots where you encountered mud just so most of us can get an idea of how severe or non-severe this problem is and to shed light for the people on the fence about buying this camera. Okay thanks and Great footage! especially of the flowers!
 
Isaac_Brody said:
Come on, no need to be melodramatic.
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Lol.... Isaac,

This is DVXuser; it's all about drama............

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John Caballero said:
The 1080/60i compression is going to be fine. You will see. Then it will be something else to complain about of course. We are going to have a very good time shooting with this cam in the good old USof A. Remember my words.
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I am looking forward to actually seeing 1080/24 from a 60i camera. Converted correctly of course....

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AndyW69 said:
I used auto focus mainly, switched over on some of the plant shots as it was hunting when the wind moved the flowers. The screen jumps to a zoom automatically when you focus in manual mode
Andy
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wait. is there a way to turn this feature off? i don't want to to zoom in every time i'm manually focusing! because most of the time I'll be watching the frame AND focusing at the same time. and I can't keep control of the frame if its all zoomed into it. please tell me there's a way to turn that feature off!
 
paulgandersman said:
wait. is there a way to turn this feature off? i don't want to to zoom in every time i'm manually focusing! because most of the time I'll be watching the frame AND focusing at the same time. and I can't keep control of the frame if its all zoomed into it. please tell me there's a way to turn that feature off!
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yes you can turn it off. you can also move the zoomed area around the screen
 
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