GH2 Point of view shooting with GH2?

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Tass

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Hey!

I am thinking of buying an helmet and attach my GH2 with a Tamron 17 55 lens on it in order to get a nice POV feeling to my next short. I am afraid that the footage will be to shaky and that the jello effect might ruin it all. Is there anyone here with POV footage with the gh2 to show, or maybe some tips how to do it to minimize those problems?

I know that a GoPro would be ideal but we really don't have money for that... But there is a studio around here where I could rent a computer with After Effects cs6, I have heard that they have this great feature to minimize jello and unstable footage.

Worth to mention, I also do have an HMC150 camera, this camera could be better but it's so much bigger than my GH2, how to fit that bad boy on a helmet?

What to do?:)
 
I've not had a great experience with image stabilisation in post so I wouldn't put too much faith in CS6 to sort it.
 
Forgot the helmet. Shoot it normally and make it look POV. It's not a requirement that all POV shots be shot via a helmet.

And use the HMC-150 if you want to do crazy motion, or the GH2 if you will have control. If you get CMOS jello you are, frankly, going to ruin the shot. There's really no way to fix that in post to any sort of satisfaction at the moment.
 
GoPro will be more easily mountable, but also uses a CMOS sensor and thus can suffer from jello depending on the kind of movement you're looking to do.
 
I think you will be unhappy with the jello you get from the GH2. My suggestion would be beg, borrow or buy a small-sensor Pany camcorder like the SD90. It's compact, has a wide angle zoom, 24p and (60p for slo-mo) and Pany colors that intercut well with a GH2 (I have both). It is still CMOS but much faster sensor readout than a GH2.
 
Shot the first 2,5 minutes of this with a GH1 and the 7-14. Only thing I did was to shorten the neck strap and had the camera really high on my chest. Nobody even noticed that I was filming.

 
Thanks for all the great input. I have looked at some other footage and often they use some type of ENG camera with another person holding it as tight and close to one side of his head as possible. That way he DP can control exactly what to be in frame and when... We have done some testing with the GH2 (extreme movement left to right, shaky as hell) and tried to repair it in AE CS6, AE does a great job with the new rolling shutter fix combined with some warp stabilizing.

I start to belive more and more that the HMC on one side of his neck would be the best solution, probably the most safe one in order not get any nasty rolling shutter effects...
 
Another interesting option are these new breeds of wearable cameras.
If the GoPro isn't an option, these probably aren't in your budget either- but they are still pretty cool for some situations. The quality of these small sensor "adventure cams" isn't going to be as good as your GH1 or HMC anyway, but I like it that you wear these instead of mounting it to a helmet or anything like that:

http://techcitement.com/hardware/review-with-pivothead-what-you-see-is-what-you-get/#.UB69_E1lQr0
 
M. Gilden said:
Another interesting option are these new breeds of wearable cameras.
If the GoPro isn't an option, these probably aren't in your budget either- but they are still pretty cool for some situations. The quality of these small sensor "adventure cams" isn't going to be as good as your GH1 or HMC anyway, but I like it that you wear these instead of mounting it to a helmet or anything like that:

http://techcitement.com/hardware/review-with-pivothead-what-you-see-is-what-you-get/#.UB69_E1lQr0
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lol that's so cool, love it! But I don't think that it might be the solution, the rolling shutter looks pretty bad in that clip... We are going to have a guy running around in the city naked and almost frantic while people stare at him and everything that comes along, so the look should be quite stressful and fast.. Either I take a risk and go with the GH2 on a helmet and try to salvage and correct as much as possbile in AE, or place my HMC on one of his shoulders and run behind him...
 
Tass said:
lol that's so cool, love it! But I don't think that it might be the solution, the rolling shutter looks pretty bad in that clip... We are going to have a guy running around in the city naked and almost frantic while people stare at him and everything that comes along, so the look should be quite stressful and fast.. Either I take a risk and go with the GH2 on a helmet and try to salvage and correct as much as possbile in AE, or place my HMC on one of his shoulders and run behind him...
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The rolling shutter wasn't as terrible as the fact that your face moves around ALOT as you walk/run, and the FOV isn't as wide as a GoPro (so it is exaggerated).

If you decide to go with the GH2, throw on the widest lens possible, and experiment with using ETC mode if you can. That should help reduce rolling shutter.
 
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