'Raw' settings for Pany HMC 151

[Mort]

Hi Folks, I've just joined this forum today, although I have been watching you all for for over a year now whoo ha ha ha... :grin:

Anyway I've been a commercial photographer for many years working in advertising with 10x8 and 5x4 film and in the last 12 years digitally.
I'm now doing more video work these days and it's been interesting to see the recent evolution of the video camera, a medium that until recently remained largly untouched in the prosumer market.
These days we are all on a constant quest for quality at a budget, which brings me neatly to the HMC 151. As cameras go I'm very happy with it but I would like to think that I'm getting the most from it and would like your opinions on this.
Here are some settings I got from a BBC guru for the 151:

Detail Level 0
V Detail Level -2
Detail Coring +2
Chroma Level 0
Chorma Phase 0
Color Temp Ach 0
Color Temp Bch 0
Master Ped 0
A Iris Level 0
DRS OFF
Gamma HD Norm
Knee Mid
Matrix Norm 1
Skin Tone Detail Off

Now I've been using these for about a year now, but just recently I've been experimenting and I am finding that the above settings seem on the sweet spot with the exception of the
Gamma.
This I'm finding seems to give far more latitude and image information when set to Cine-Like D.

I was wondering what you folks think, and if you've tried this setting.
I will post up some like for like comparisons when I work out how to do it on this forum.
All the best :thumbsup:

 

[Mort]

Ok Folks, here is a very boring shot that I think has lots going on in terms of text, low light, different textures, burnt highlights etc. If you look at the 'HD Norm' image it appears to me to contain less picture information than the 'Cine-Like D' image. It's possible to make the Cine-Like D image look identicle to the HD Norm image in post however not the other way round. It's also ineresting that when you sharpen the image in post the Cine-Like D image has fewer nasty artifacts than the HD Norm with same amount of sharpening.
It's also interesting that the camera does seem to benefit from the use of some internal sharpening ie settings set to '0' represent 50% of the cameras total internal sharpening ability, and +7 is maximum and -7 is no sharpening.
If you set all settings to -7 ie no camera sharpening, and then sharpen in post, you obviously end up sharpening nasty codec as well as the image.
If you set the camera sharpening too high ie +5 you an get nasty effect ie black edges to things.
So far it appears to me that around '0' is about right.
Any thoughts, what do you Guys think?
All the best..
PS. It's worth noting that these images have been compressed quite a lot by this site and so what you see here is not what I am seeing, bit of a shame.