The Panasonic G1HD | GH-1 Video Mode : A Real Video Mode

ryansheffer said:
Kholi,

I'm confused by your statement on the first page after number 12. You got the menu working in English? If so, I'm importing immediately.
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Sorry. I meant I could save the person's name in English. So there's English buried in the camera.
 
No timelapse recording mode in camera... but you can plug in an intervelometer through the remote/mic port. You can buy the generic "timer remote" on ebay for about $50 for the G1/GH1.
 
COLOR PROFILES -- You can save custom versions of Panasonic's curves. There are SEVERAL, and versionso f Black and whites as well.

Example; Adjust the DYNAMIC preset curve and lower saturation, etc, then save it.

Totally stumbled onto this while nitpicking through things. Saved two color profiles that I'm quite happy with.

This may allude to building custom curves in other software. Sweet.
 
I sold my D60 last month. You should be able to get at least 80% of the brand new price of the D90 if its in great condition. The D90 is still a fine digital still camera, not even a year old. What's hurting prices right now isn't the GH1, it's just that a lot of people are broke. You've gotta admit, your petition for the D90 may be too little, too late, for a cause that's no longer relevent.

The GH1 is the hottest forum on dvxuser in terms of viewers! For a while, I think it may be Panasonic's hottest item. So go buy, buy, buy the GH1! So that the Japanese overlords in Mordor understand that's what we want - large sensors.

I just wish the same specs came in a bigger form factor!

DanDOF said:
You guys think May is a safe time to sell my D90? Photographers wouldnt care about the GH1, so I figure D90 could still sell for near brand new price, whaddya think?
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ProLost said:
You can't shoot at 60fps with a 1/50 shutter. The slowest shutter you could use would be 1/60.

For the filmic look, you want a 180º shutter. At 60 fps, that's 1/120.

-Stu
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After thinking about it for a minute, I realized that you are correct.

However, I stand by my opinion that overcranked footage should be shot with a 360º shutter. The "filmic look" is achieved through a combination of the motion judder of 24 fps playback and the motion blur of 1/48s exposure time. It should have nothing to do with "shutter angle." Thus, 1/60s 60p played at 24 fps should look more film-like than than 1/120s 60p at 24 fps. But I've never done this myself, so I can't say for certain.
 
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UPDATE: You don't see what you're actually REALLY getting on the LCD until you hit record. So don't be fooled. It looks better than you think!
 
In regards to the codec breaking up. The dark background area in Barry's footage appeared to get some added aliasing when I did the prores reverse telecine. Looked ugly on my mac.

So the D90 still beats it in low light?
 
The D90 doesn't beat anything. Don't go jumping the gun.


There are several reasons that I could be seeing that break-up, the major one being that I HAVE A JApANESE CAMERA.

I'm still learning the menus and committing functions to memory.
 
2. Codec May break up under certain areas of the light spectrum? Does this make sense? Seems like tungsten balance causes more compression noise than daylight. So Lowlight suffers, I think the lowlight is directly comparable to the EX-1.

what happens if you shoot with a cooler white balance under the tungstens? maybe it needs a bit of tricking ala D90
 
my only real concern now is how the codec is gonna hold up after prores conversion grading and rendering.

kholi dis the D90 after we sell them butthead
 
There's no real tricking anything. The camera even has a manual white balance setting that allows you to dial in 100 increments from 2500K to 10000K

Like I said. This is just day one.

And lucky for me my MSI WIND is about to die, which means I'm more inclined to actally sleep.
 
Did I mention that the GH-1 stomps the D90 and the MKii into the ground as far as Jello goes?

What does Panasonic's DSLR Department know that the rest don't?
 
noooooooo!

shoot something!

100 increments nice.

I mean tricking it shooting cooler if the codec can't manage warm then warming it in post
 
RaviSun3D said:
Kholi,
How do you compare quality of GH1 with HMC150 having same Codec?
Is there any major difference?
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I'm not sure. I haven't messed with the HMC150. But I think it's fair to say it like this:

The GH-1 makes me think of a SONY EX-1 with Interchangeable lens options.

It's also got this "heavy" quality to it, like the D90 had. Somehow averting the flat feeling.
 
Kholi said:
I'm not sure. I haven't messed with the HMC150. But I think it's fair to say it like this:

The GH-1 makes me think of a SONY EX-1 with Interchangeable lens options.

It's also got this "heavy" quality to it, like the D90 had. Somehow averting the flat feeling.
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But I think Bitrate could make lot more difference.
Its like Sharp vs Smooth.

Barry's footage looks smooth though!
 
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