I was not suprised by the 5N. From the time I first seen its video I knew it was way off (in terms of resolution when compared to the GH-2). But the Nikon suprised the heck out of me. I thought it would have looked a whole lot better than what it did. Outside of it's known colored moire and aliasing issues I always dug its moving pictures. But in retrospect I think maybe that had more to do with the individual pieces that I seen shot and nothing to do with the camera.
The GH2 footage in that latest shootout is simply astounding. I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes. The biggest surprise came from the AF100, though (albeit to me the highlights seem a tad blown out).
GH2 Driftwood FTW! Despite his on-camera comments about card speed and L mode, I suspect Philip was able to shoot the GH2 in H mode since he titled the clip 176mbps. If that was the 70mbps low mode I'm truly amazed.
GH2 did well here and although I am sure it will get buggered in the low light test by the C300, remember the secret weapons for low light shooting on the GH2. 1... F0.95 on the Voigtlander. 2... Avoid under exposure at all costs even if you have to ramp the ISO up to 3200 and the shutter to 1/25, do it. When the exposure is OK the GH2 can do nice results even at ISO 12,800 with a nice fine grain.
Nikon's video will get better, the Expeed 3 chip in the J1 isn't too bad, although it doesn't compare to the GH2 it is an improvement for video on the D7000 for sure.
I know this part of test is about details, but sorry I couldn't help my self from looking at dynamic range... But i think here that every analysis of the videos should be welcome. It is interesting to know how people are perceiving images. May be clipped highlights, some lack of dr have some "bad" consequence on details in the brightest parts...
Even it is "unscientific" it is worth to give some argumentation about the initial conditions for each shooting. I think Pb does this shootout with his own means so no blame here ok? just some warning about our way for commenting these shots :-)
in the straight resolution detail test, the gh2 absolutely smoked most of the cameras. Even Bloom had to stop and say "this is nuts" when staring at the detail rich image.
It wasn't even pixel peeping, it was obvious.
The fact he did this at the low quantum setting is a huge verification of all the work driftwood and V and all of us have been doing.
I doubt the gh2 will do as well in the upcoming tests. We are know there can be color tinting issues. It will hold its own.
@magnifico You do understand he clearly mentions that this was a unscientific test? That's why he made mention in the video that the cloud conditions were consistently changing. It was not a dynamic range test but only a resolution test..so...clipped highlights are not really the focus here.
Considering condition of test it is a little pitty since there are clouds and light is not the same for all these shots. The force of zacuto tests is "same condition" with girls doing same things in front of amera. Pb, you need more tripods and geek helpers :-) I pp and noticed some good details for gh2 at the wall on the left compared to fs100. I noticed some clipped highlight for gh2: see the little house and the red letters... My 0.002 $
In that regard, thanks to @Vitaliy_Kiselev for PTool 3.63d which provides the magic to extend the GH2's capabilities, and @driftwood for providing one of the amazing patches that are being shared on this forum. Cheers @PhilipBloom