Sample clips discussion
 

Maybe the administrator of this forum will create a thread/sticky where we can post our work/tests with the Gh1/Gh2, So they will all be in the same place, everyone can view and comment.

Consider it done -- this is now the thread for discussing GH camera series sample clips.

As a reminder, clips hosted on Vimeo are automatically embedded here with a player. You need only to post the direct URL of the clip's location on Vimeo. Hope this helps,

Low light test with GH2
 

I went downtown to the Museum of Natural History for an hour or hour and a half and tried out my GH2 in what I knew would be low light. Shot in manual movie mode, 60i, ISO limit set to 3200. No color correction.
Kit lens 14mm to 42mm. No tripods or monopods are allowed but somehow I got my little monopod in there.
I am surprised some of it came out because the available light is quite poor. All in all I am quite pleased with the image quality in a low light environment.

Concert Test with GH2
 

I brought along my GH2 to a recent Mellencamp show to test it out under stage lighting, as I usually record several shows a year of local artists or private schools. If I had known they were letting everyone take photos/video for "non-financial" use, I would have brought the 14-140 lens to zoom in better. I only brought the Lumix pancake 20mm. I used the 2X ETC sensor crop mode just to get some element of zoom. Additional GH2 settings: 24p, Motion Picture Mode, Manual settings. I kept the aperture at 1.7 to allow for the most light. Shutter speed: 50. I can't recall the ISO setting I used... the theater was dark, and I was fumbling with some of the controls. I wished I had paid more attention to the ISO; I think I was using somewhere between 1000-2000 (not too definitive... I know). After pulling the footage into Sony Vegas, I used the default stabilizing fx to remove the handheld look; I felt it helped immensely. The audio is just the on-camera mic. You can see a few times where the autofocus is seeking; I think I held down the shutter button for most of the song so that it stopped. I should have changed the focus mode but I didn't plan that well ahead and didn't want to ruin the footage in mid-stream by fumbling with controls. The original footage was captured in 1920 x 1080 24p, while the original link in Vimeo is 720p footage with a download option.

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The sound is pretty darn good, I'm surprised. Video was good and not grainy even with high ISO.

Brookside Gardens
 

Shot with Panasonic GH2 using Cimema mode 24 frame.
Just used a monopod, 14mm to 42mm kit lens. No color correction or grading, just raw video off card. Knocked down to 720p.

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Nice, Jim, great work.

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James, very nice camera work. Damn, he looks old. But then, so do I, I guess.

Anyway, the 50fps looks great! I'm shooing a wedding Saturday, and I'm anxious to see what this baby can do!

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lens nokton 25mm f0.95
footage 720p
my job was only to shoot, but i made quickly editing to be possible share it. there was no preparation for shooting, no storybord or something...

Re: Synergy, Russian sailing team promo from Miami RC44 Cup
 

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Very nice Oleg! Very nice editing as well. What lenses and settings?

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VERY nice, Oleg. I actually had both this forum posting and an AF100 forum open in different tabs, and I thought that I was watching the AF100 video and was thinking to myself, "I can't wait until I get an AF100." To know that this was done on a GH1/2... great work.

I'm interested in the same questions that Jim mentioned. Also, what technique are you using for your in-scene rapid pans?

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Got my nearly-new GH2 Tuesday. My magnificently humble first footage:

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Kevin, that looked awfully good! Nice cam, eh? I've knocked the 14-140 lens, but only in low light. It really looks good there when used in the right conditions.

GH2: Vulture Mine, Wickenburg AZ
 

This location exercises a camera's control of aliasing, morie, and chromatic aberration. On different weekends, a Canon EOS 7D, Panasonic HDC-TM700 and Panasonic DMC-GH2 were used to shoot three separate projects. This is the Panasonic DMC-GH2 result. The GH2 suffered little of the aliasing and morie of the 7D, and none of the TM700 chromatic aberration.

One of finest true ghost towns in the American West, Vulture City grew up around the mine discovered by Henry Wickenburg. Twelve miles southwest of the city that now bears Wickenburg’s name, the Vulture Mine and Vulture City once had a population of almost 5,000 souls. Its history was marked by violence and tragedy. Eighteen of Vulture City’s former residents swung to eternity at the end of a hangman’s noose dangling from the branches of the ancient ironwood tree that still thrives next to the ruins of Henry Wickenburg’s old cabin. More died in robberies or through many other acts of terminal lawlessness. A few of those souls are said to haunt the many buildings of the decaying town. (by: Richard Maack)


Panasonic HDC-TM700 video here: vimeo.com/​16597179
Canon EOS 7D video here: vimeo.com/​16598062

Panasonic DMC-GH2
Panasonic f4, 7-14mm lens
Gitzo Basalt GT1830 Tripod
Acratech Leveling Base
Manfrotto 700RC2 Head

Eleanoora Rosenholm: Valo kaasumeren hämärässä
 

Watch fullscreen for optimal aspect ratio.

A blog post about making of the video: Sami Snpkkil | Eleanoora Rosenholm: Valo kaasumeren hämärässä

GH1 using Canon/Panasonic lenses
 

Dim light? No problem for the GH1, even at 100 ISO!

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Vulture Mine----Very nicely done. Shows you know how to use the camera skillfully. Great subject matter.
Couple of questions...
How did you get the push in's? Did you use a slidder or just use your NLE software to do a push?
Did you shoot in the Cinema Mode 24p?

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Nice Jeff. Glad you got the lenses you need.

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Thanks Jim. Camera work was pretty bad, but it wasnt' shot with the intention to post.

In all honesty the video is meaningless unless you were there to see how dark it actually was. Except for the 20mm, the images are brighter than what I actually saw...It was like having night goggles on or something, not quite that dramatic, but close.

The lenses are especially important to me since I have a GH1, and can't run at a high ISO as with the GH2.

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Thank you Jim.

Small zooms were done with NLE. All clips were 1080/60i.

Thanks for watching.

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Shot with the GH2 / 20mm pancake lens / 24p / manual everything / hand-held. Modest color correction, mostly gamma and white limit.

All I can say is that I need the OIS on the 14-140mm if I continue to do hand-held.

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William, you didn't use a ND filter, it appears. Was that intentional, or do you just not like them? Or did you use one and I am mistaken?

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Forgot to add that I had a cheap Tiffen circular polarizer on the entire time. An ND filter would have upped the DOF a bit but I didn't want the background entirely indistinct, perhaps that was a mistake.

The auto white balance tended to blue. Later that day I did a set of photos with the same lens/filter combination and the camera entirely automatic. Some excellent photos came out of that. The camera is a great still camera, no question about that.

This was an experiment to work with the 20mm hand held without a camera brace. The next time I'll use the Spiderbrace I have and see if the nervous shake that regular broadcast video cameras restrict my hands from doing is reduced. Otherwise the 20mm goes with a tripod from now on. Focusing is a hassle with the Spiderbrace unless the Assist function is on. I did a short experimental shoot with the 20mm and some actors improving a skit. The result was way too shaky if I walked with the camera. The 14-140mm is much better for hand held since it has the OIS but the camera becomes too heavy for comfortable video shooting without a brace.

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Hi William, I find the GH2 magnifies every little movement because of it's small size, much trickier to use hand-held.

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That's a fact with palmcorders as well although the SLR form factor magnifies it more. A shoulder brace really helps.

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Shot with GH2 and GH1, clips slowed down to 50% or more.

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Nice color and composition Jeff. I assume you did the slo mo in your editing program.
Looks good

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Jim, I believe it looks outstanding, phenomenal. Auto white balance? Wow. The skin tones? Beautiful, IMO.

The shot of the bride and the young man with braids shows such amazing color.

What blew me away most was that the shot of the brides dress getting ready was actually ruined (IMO)when another video guy turned on his light. With available light it looked SO much better.

This is the benefit of the fast lenses, gorgeous footage using available light.

I'm going to run three cameras for the reception this week and I will keep the Canon 50mm f/1.4 on a tripod at all times on one camera just to get the amazing shots, though if the venue is large enough I might try out the 85mm f/1.2 as well.

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Yes, Jim, I did the slow mo in Vegas. No tricks, just stretched it out. I've never had footage that I could slow down to that degree and have it retain such quality. Amazing camera, really. At least in the right hands. Hopefull I will learn to use it properly.

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Footage of squirrel slowed up to 80%! In ETC mode. Still acceptable footage, IMO.

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Chuck is sharp and massive.

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Great! Assuming that you were using the long end of the 18-55mm f/2.8 the 35mm full frame equivalent lens would be 55x2(MFT crop factor)x3.9(720p ETC crop factor)=429mm. A Canon 400 F2.8L lens costs about $8000!!!

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Wow, that's cool Nigel!

I can't imagine what the mm equivelant with my 135 using ETC would be, around 1000? Pretty neat!

No intention to try it handheld, that is for sure!

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1053mm

I have a Canon FD 200mm F2.8 that on the GH2 1280x720 with ETC becomes a 1560mm 35mm FF equivalent & you cannot even buy a lens like that.

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For my work a 135mm x 2 is not even usable much of the time as it is, but it is nice to have the option.

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Jewelry store footage shot with the GH2. Much easier than a wedding. Not perfect, but is it watchable.

- Jeff Harper Video -

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Shot and edited a music video with my church's youth group in about 6 hours total.

GH2 was handheld throughout, except for two skateboard dollies and two gorillapod "lock down" shots. Available lighting throughout.

Shot 1080/24 at 80%, which was SUPPOSED to sync with a suitably sped-up audio track, but what I thought was the kids' sped up track was actually normal speed... so there's lots of odd flicker going on due to speeding slow-mo footage back up to normal speed, along with numerous other imperfections. Oh well.

Lenses:
14-140 (all outdoor shots)
20/1.7 w/ .5x Wide Angle converter (most indoor shots)
Oly Zuiko 50/1.4 (kids at the mic)

Anyway....

YouTube - ‪Summer Swag- THE VERGE‬‏

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Cute video. I just deleted a criticism I had written of the rapping, after all they are kids.

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Yeah, the whole thing is straight-faced clowning - intentionally so. None of them are planning to supplant 50Cent anytime soon.

Even though it was just fiddling, I did like the results of the 20/1.7+0.5WA. Plenty of edge aberration wide-open, but still useable in the right situation if I really, really needed a fast wide-angle.