Panasonic Removable Lens Four Thirds HD AVCHD Camera

Michael Olsen said:
What are the prospects of recording using an XLR mic on this camera?
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Unbalanced (mini phono ?) to xlr adapter. Not sure if the connector is a mini on the cam. But no phantom power. Need a self powered xlr mic.

Edit: Just remembered Beachtek has phantom powered adapters so you can use any xlr mic.
 
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Car3o said:
the m2ts files just flash on my vlc player
wtf? i can't get any raw file to work

btw the lowlight footage looks great
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Being a final cut user I'm hoping that the rumored update will deal with AVCHD 24p pulldown removal with out hassle. VLC has issues with m2t. If you can't transcode the footage you can dump the raw file to a AVCHD cam like i did and play back the footage. This was easier than transcoding in FCP. You can also get neoscene from cineform which coverts AVCHD to avi or mov with pulldown removal.
 
Night footage looks good for starters. No telling which lens was used as well. Also, sharpening looks like it's being over-applied to all of the videos I'm seeing. I can't wait to dial it back.

Good times.
 
Forgive my Four Thirds ignorance, but I'm trying to find lenses on B&H that will work with the GH-1.

Is it safe to assume that any Four Thirds Panasonic lens will work, like this 25mm f/1.4?

OR what about a Sigma Four Thirds that's designed for Olympus digital cameras???
 
All the samples show about a 3 pixel minimal feature size. The Canon's show a 1 pixel feature size. It really shows in hair, fur, and spectral highlights. The smoothing results in a pleasingly noise free image with clearly HD (or at least better than SD).

Now the $64k question: does the HDMI port output uncompressed 4:2:2 video live and is it before the image processing?
 
David...just go buy yourself a Canon. :)

Is this just your way of saying the Canon is sharper or has a denser image?
 
I've seen two clips posted here. Took single frame captures. Loaded them in Photoshop. Went to Lab mode. Zoomed in so you can see the individual pixels clearly. observed different parts of the image in Lab (full color), 'lightness' (Y), a (U), and b (V).

Since I've got a Sanyo FH1 ($440 at B&H but I paid more :) ) I've been looking at this for a week or so. The images look good. If you blow them up and look they are pretty noise free. HOWEVER, try and find a sharp pixel to pixel contrast. There aren't any. It is always smoothed over three pixels. There are occasional items that are two pixels wide (and I imagine some where there are some that are one) but they lack contrast...two near shades of gray or whatever they happen to be. One pixel wide objects (that the camera should resolve, it is oversampling after all) are broken up...the contrast not strong enough to maintain the objects. The smoothing reduces the sharpness of the spectal highlights (those shiney spots on the ceramic cat).

If you look at 5DM2 (or RED) footage those all stand out. Even the $600 SX1 can clearly resolve 1 pixel. However, the little sensor on the SX1 has noise all over the place. There a sections that look like the image as freckles if you blow it up to view pixel by pixel. On the 5DM2, the large photosites and Canon's CMOS technology pretty much minimze the noise to way below what any of us dealing in HPX170s and EX1s are used to.

Do people viewing our work on TV, the Internet or even possibly a large theater screen view it pixel by pixel? No. However, they do see spectal highlights. They see the texture detail of a brick wall or a wool sweater. These things add a warmth and feeling to the image. And that is lost when the image loses the midrange spatial frequency contrast.

Now the GH-1's oversampled 8Mp sensor with 4.4µm photosite spacing and oversampling in both axis should have captured a fairly low noise image with good contrast to fairly close to its Nyquist limit (the 5DM2 is a 6Mp sensor with 6.4µm photosite spacing and only horizontal oversampling). Can we get that image off the camera?

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One thing the GH-1 (and the Sanyo FH-1) don't have is edge sharpening. If you look around an edge the colors and luminance flow smoothly yet look crisp. In contrast, the HPX300 images I've seen have had a significant amount. The EX1 does also I believe. The lack of edge sharpening does make the image look more pleasing IMHO.
 
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Barry's test was excellent considering he basically took the camera in his hands and just shot something for our benefit. This camera has a ton of settings. Smooth skin, color variations, face tracking and many many others. If you check www.panasonic.net is all there. I think this will be one of the great things about it. In a short while clips should start looking better as people start messing with the menus. Very exciting indeed.

BTW: To me the footage doesn't have to look like the HPX3000 because that would be asking for way too much but if it nears the HPX500 I'll be very happy.
 
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