GH2 Who is filming with grad filters ?

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moxrox

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Comming from photography, sunsets or sunrises are a very special time to get colorfull and interesting shots. Did try a bit with filming and similar light situations combined with grad filters, sometimes I struggle a bit with a broken codec, heavier noise in some of the darkened filter parts. All in all I do small steps in the right direction, just need to see the possible options of the camera. I guess I expect too much with video and there are certain things not possible in comparison to photography. You have to be very carefully with underexposures, in photography I sometimes underexpose to get more rich and colorfull scenes but with 8 bit video I get pixelation or codec/color damages sometimes...so I need to learn some more steps.

Just a test and an example: http://vimeo.com/22175154?ab

Anyway, anyone is filming with grad filters and how is your expirience, how do you expose, what to avoid and so on...maybe you have some tricks n tipps for a beginner.
 
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You should probably switch to Motion Jpeg mode when you need to under expose for colour control, that way at least you have full frames like photos and a constant data rate.

The other thing to try that might help you if you have a GH13, is this thread, where the bitrate of AVCHD is still high and noise and banding is diminished. It works, try it.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthrea...Breakthrough&p=2307710&viewfull=1#post2307710

You could also apply the grads in post with Magic Bullet Looks or similar software.
 
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I got a set of hitch grads and they have saved me a few times. I just use ND grads and nothing stronger then 4 stops. My Hitech grads are not that hi-end so they look awful with anything longer then 50mm on a m43 camera. My goal is to make sure it dose not look like I am using a grad filter. In the first 2 shots in this video you can see it a work. I was using a tonkina 11-16 with a 4 stop hitech grad.
 
Hey thx for the replies, will try some of your hints for sure. I own Hitech Filters aswell, will try to use the filter more that it rather doesnt look like it..that will probably minimize also certain problems I had.
 
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