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SO can anyone make a resume on best settings, I know every shot must be planned an set up, but for general purpose and I'm new to the camera, using mostly, natural contrast -3 / sharp-2 / saturation 0 / noise -3 almost always in .mov 60p or all intra 72 at 30p.

Please don't explain everything again just resume, your best settings and WHY?

THANKS ALL

LOL... your right. It means I understand all the Technic information just want to know what settings you use and the reason why. I'm personaly fighting against so many options to setup, trying to understand how camera reacts on so many setting combinations. I don't get the sweet point in colours yet its hard on this camera to get proper skintones but for the price its ok. I miss the RGB adjustment in the 5D (jejeje) Also the auto-focus sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Don't know if its me or the camera or what. And yes the EVF is useless for focus, nice though for 3rd stabilization point, when shooting video.

Can you please explain more in depth the standard option? "Standard because I simply prefer it."

Thanks.

I heard that Portrait yields the greatest dynamic range. How true is this? Would shooting standard and applying an inverse S-curve (not that I would do that) produce the same result, or are we actually getting more information from the sensor? I've been shooting at -5/-2/-2/0, mostly because I don't want to risk losing colour information and have no encountered any moire at those settings.

Hi, I followed your discussion, because of the same questions. To get a better idea I put following for me together. A Comparison between AVCHD, MOV, MOV all i and picture settings using GH3 and FCPX.

What do you think?

You are right, it took me some patience too, to get it out to youtube. Should be there by now. :-)

wgtwo, thought about that too. I first tried to put it in HD+Apple ProRes 422 which gives me some fat 2 GB for this little one. My Internet then collapses :/. Do you have an idea what is a decent format, which will do the trick?

Refering to the cropping, i did maintain the pixels cropping from each track the outer margin away, which leaves me with the fillet area concerning lens and center focus control. Then I shifted this area into a corner maintaining its size and resolution. Shifting and cropping was done with definite coordinates from the keyboard, to prevent half px moving using a mouse. This way the 4 respectively 3 snippets can be seen side by side in original size & resolution.

With the native files on my screen I do see a visible difference between the codecs looking at the semitransparent blossoms and the hairy surface of the stems. AVCHD seems smoother or a bit more blurry to me. Furthermore pulling sharpness, contrast and noise reduction down to -5 left to my eyes the tiny details intact, especially nearby the edges and using MOV all i. And that should be the treasure for the creative part.

thaks for the feedback @maddog15

mov is a little-little bit noisier than avchd. 50 mbps is better than alli till now, and as philip bloom says, he prefers generally manual focus, ok gh3 is very good in auto focus but it has to hunt a bit when changes focus, in low light it hunts a lot but I dont care, I use only manual

@starios thanks for the feedback.

I just got to see some simple footaje on an 1080p tv and, WOW amazed really this camera is the best for this price range I did the right choice. ;-)

With enough light it rocks, you can use it without perceptible noise to iso 800, and very usable footage to 3200, past that is just for emergencies...

Join the GH3 with fast good lenses and you can really be close to + 8000dll camera. BlackMagic as its pros and cons, but lacks GH3 versatility. (don't need to specify).

And as for settings I found myself using natural for low light, and standard for good light situations. Why because colour temp. white balance, for me natural respond better to high ISO it keep more subtle colours (not scientific just appreciative opinion). Maybe because is less saturated and high ISO tend to make more noise in colour channels, ;-)

as for numbers I don't go (yet) with -5 think that it looses precious image information, like skintones, highlights, and too much noise (so much better then canon DSLRs though).

I do miss precise RGB colour correction, if possible that would be amazing in a hack. There is some magenta and yellows tendency most of the time that would be nice to correct in camera.

Greetings

I'm amazed at the amount of information available when grading footage with an all flat setting. Some shots are better than others but grading the 50Mb/s footage seems more forgiving than 72Mb/s All Intra. The "Before" of each is straight out of the camera. (All shot on Standard -5 -5 -5 -5.) Then CC/grading applied in Premiere Pro CS6.

@griplimited. Thanks. Sorry there was a typo in the title. All were shot in MOV 50Mb/s IPB mode. (Not 30Mb/s)

As I promised, after trying to solve the infinity focus problem with my c-mount lens, I finally stuck with epoxy glue the c-mount screw removing completely the rear flange of the lense and here is my first noisy sample at f/1.2 By mistake I shot it in 72alli, damn, more noise.