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GH3 user reviews and opinions
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  • shianshian

    the 50M footage looks great. Very workable. but I don't like the cadence... it's a little "off" doesn't look right. More videoish than GH2. If it weren't for the DR i never would have used it yesterday, but I needed the extra DR to save me some time. I think I'm done with the GH3.

  • timfrakestimfrakes

    @jasonp, my GH3 arrives Wednesday. So, no. I can't. Thxs.

  • jfilmmakerjfilmmaker

    @shian Hmm... Separate from shooting issues, how's the actual 50Mbps footage turning out for you? Further, in the general sense is white balance and or color balance presets turning out proper in the footage? Thx!

  • LamboLambo

    i love the GH3 !!!, We had no probs on weekend....

  • timfrakestimfrakes

    Hey @shian, can you monitor video out via the HDMI while you are recording? Or, is the HDMI out only for playback?

  • shianshian

    I'm really hating the GH3. I shot with it yesterday, and it's a little similar to the uncertainty of film as far as color temp and exposure. Every monitor looks different, the evf doesn't match the lcd, and neither match the hdmi out, you have to manually white balance and pray that it's the correct setting, cuz not one of the 3 monitoring options will give you an accurate idea of your color cast.

    Shooting a scene with light streaks coming in through the window, diffused light from window lighting the subject, and gelling tungsten lights to match - EVF looks warm, LCD looks fine, HDMI looks bluish. Director is complaining that it looks too blue, did a manual white balance with both white and gray cards to be sure, footage ended up looking fine. But it doesn't put you at ease on set.

  • jfilmmakerjfilmmaker

    @clyde_t -3, -4 then... Thanks for the info! Still waiting on my GH3 from Adorama - btw, I'm in LA as well.

  • clyde_tclyde_t

    @GravitateMediaGroup

    i'm saying i have mine set to NR -4 and that's where it will live.

    so my normal settings are Standard -3, -3, -1, -4

    i tried Natural with similar settings and it's a little flatter. some might prefer that.

    also, i tested everything by locking down the shot and shooting 20 second clips changing just one parameter, so i could quickly cycle-through and examine tests back-to-back.

    clyde

  • LamboLambo

    screenshots GH3...

    New Film 2.jpg
    1919 x 1079 - 1M
    New Film.jpg
    1919 x 1079 - 843K
  • GravitateMediaGroupGravitateMediaGroup

    @clyde_t

    so are you saying +2 3 or 4 orrrrr -2 3 or 4

  • clyde_tclyde_t

    @jfilmmaker did anyone address your question about noise reduction? because i shot tests from +5 to -5 NR on the GH3 and evaluated them with a friend who works at CBS and sees lots of cameras in a well-tweaked engineered environment. we noticed that the noise reduction has unpleasant effects on the details down to -3 or -4. at the lowest setting there is some unwanted noise. a notch or two higher seems to be a sweet spot. the difference is easy to spot, but you have to look at the whole image to catch it. it's not just a patch of pixels

  • GravitateMediaGroupGravitateMediaGroup

    no grading, and MAY be the render. it's .wmv 1080/24p highest detail I could possibly export for the most part. bitrate at 6 or 8 mbs via Vegas 12

  • leonbeasleonbeas

    Its is really noticeble in 1:15 to 1:18 when you change the F I believe is banding due to youtube compression, and if is not that it can only be grading or render. (i hope)

  • GravitateMediaGroupGravitateMediaGroup

    being that I have the worst internet on earth, can you narrow it down to 3 or 4 specific times that you notice it? and is it a possibility that maybe it's the TV bouncing colors off the wall? I was watching a basketball game while doing this lol

  • leonbeasleonbeas

    I'm scared, I don't know if its my monitor, or the youtube compression or even the render you did, but I really hope is not the original footage. I see colour stripes from green to magenta that look like some kind of banding in the flat illuminated surfaces from the beginning of the video to 2:48 its very subtle but its there, I already checked in two monitors, in one is more noticeable than the other. I see it more in the GH3 footage but is there also in GH2 someone also sees this. Can you upload a link from original footage to pixel peep.

    Thanks

  • GravitateMediaGroupGravitateMediaGroup

    key word "unscientific"

    Ignore the last part of the video, I'm thinking a Voightlander wasn't the best lens to use. I believe what it's showing the "focus point" of the lens?

    Also, I've updated a post with the same edit, the new one has no grade, that way you can get a more realistic judgment. See more side notes in the video description on youtube

  • RRRRRRRR

    here´s a test video of the gh3 with roland CS-10EM binaural earphones: in-cam levels cranked up to a maximum. No corrections for audio or video in post. Mind, this is not meant to be exciting. ;) Use headphones for listening.

    pass: binaural

  • AdamTAdamT

    There is a wide disparity of opinion on the EVF at dpreview's forum. Personally I prefer it to the GH2s EVF and have no problem forcusing with it, but it is very sensitive to eye placement.

    Still hoping that Panny or Vitaliy implement peaking ASAP.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    I think EVF stuff will be better suited for http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/5488/gh3-issues-topic/p1

  • IvanUskokovicIvanUskokovic

    @RRRR & @MattRobertson7 - I am finding the same poor EVF results as you gentlemen have. I do wonder if it is some sort of factory mistake. Has anybody contacted Panasonic about this? Like @RRRR, I am 100% unable to focus via my EVF. It's almost a constant "blur".

  • MattRobertson7MattRobertson7

    Yeah the GH3 viewfinder is horrible, the diopter definitly seems messed up @RRRR

    I honestly could not focus with it at all, the LCD was great though. But super disappointing to have a poor evf

  • RRRRRRRR

    By the way, regarding the viewfinder in the gh3: it seems like there has been some kind of screw up when it comes to the glass they put in the diopter. The screen resolution should be enough to make it substantially more precise than the gh2 viewfinder, yet - I can´t imagine myself using it for focusing. Ever. (I have no problems doing that with the gh2).

    That´s my take on it at least. I have no evidence to substantiate the above claims other than from my own experiences.

  • RRRRRRRR

    @timfrakes it´s a PAL version, in Sweden.. 1625 usd incl VAT. Still interested? :) (the store I bought it from has it in stock and might ship you one, excl VAT - roughly the same as B&H price - still PAL though)

  • timfrakestimfrakes

    Hey RRRR, can I have the GH3 you returned? I'm sick of waiting for B&H.

  • RRRRRRRR

    Returning my gh3 this week after a test run.. pros: mic / headphone line-ins (the gh3 managed to run my Roland binaural earphones with very reasonable results!), a host of features, many that I never did managed to test, improved stills, very good video, slight DR range improvement a.s.o. cons: viewfinder, more "fragile" in the cold. 30 minute rec limit.

    Overall: some of the improvements felt pretty slight in comparison to my expectations. Low light performance - I don´t fancy the natural grain in the camera, at least not for stills. Stills performance not AS good as I expected. Om-d felt nicer in this regard.. Very promising for the future; a hack will make this a serious tool for me and until then I will have no problems being without it.

    The gh3 made me wish for good video performance in the next generation of fuji´s with interchangeable lenses since that seems exactly like what I want from a hybrid with emphasis on stills capabilities. (some might say, get a stills cam - but I want to have a great deal of both in one body)

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