Looks great. I think it can use some color grading through :)

Good luck with the film. I'd love to watch the entire thing (especially if it's filmed with the GF2).

AlbertZ, I don't have any 550d or 600d footage to compare to , but yes the GF line is softer than the GH2 not much but softer yes.. still has tons of detail.. if you like a filmy look try mysteron or other all intra patches, they seem to feel more film like to me, slightly more fine grain is seen and just seems to look like less than 30FPS. The biggest thing at this point would be the lack of manual controls, it can be worked with but makes it challenging.. however if this gets fixed by VK these are going to be hard to beat for a high end camera with great footage and dirt cheap.

Having a good ND filter I do consider a must have especially if you like shallow DOF outdoors. in the test I did on pvdog at the lake I had a shot of the pine brush with shallow DOF, no way in heck you could get this shot any way but with a ND filter, best is dedicated ND filters using a system like the cokin filter system.. but I use a decent variable ND filter.. I think this is the one I have. low cost but decent results. It works good but wish I invested in the cokin system instead... the cokin system is on my (very long) list of stuff to get. http://www.amazon.com/Polaroid-Multi-Coated-Variable-Neutral-Density/dp/B004GYXRRE/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1333776330&sr=8-12

Thanks @Ebacherville. I just did a shot not too long ago, and I notice that I might need an ND filter or another adapter with the aperture ring. I was going to try out my Anamorphic lens adapter and do some shots.

Also when I shoot pictures, the overexposure is not there. Pure clean shot, picturewise. Oh well, you live and learn.

Here's a test shot, using pvdog's settings.

Is it true that one needs an ND filter for non Panasonic lens (Canon series), in doing day scenes. I tried to shoot something with my Canon EF 50mm 1.8II with a Fotodiox adapter and shooting a day scene, it's all white. Maybe it's an aperture situation, I don't know.

New favorites settings .. If i need spanning Flowmotion 1.11, and if I don't need spanning Mysteron I'm going to test these on the waves on the water test and see what they can do.. Once you try Mysteron on GF2 or GF3 you know what this camera can do. The Mysteron footage I took today steller stuff. Unreal a 200-250 dollar camera can do this quality of stuff. Footage from today with Mysteron, don't know why I bother since YT bit rates are 4.3mbits/sec, 95% of what the original is.

Shot it slightly flat -1, -1, 0, 0, actually lowered brittleness a bit and poped it up a bit in contrast in post. All the outdoor stuff was on a Rokkor 50mm F1.4 (30 year old manual lens) with a cheap MC to micro43 adapter.

really sharpwhen its stopped way down..

I was going for a bright film look , crushed blacks and bright feeling. I typically go for that look...

The package shot was on the 14mm f2.5 panny, indoors, as I needed auto focus because, I do all my own stunts..

I really like this Flowmotion 1.11 Patch , very nice compromise of quality and reliability, it will have to beat out pvdog at the lake in image quality, but it is in my top 3 of everyday do anything patches at this point.

@Rambo I don't, only the stock Panasonic lens that came with the camera. But it's OK to doubt. By proving anyone wrong I gain nothing, so I'll continue to tweak my settings and posting results here.

@Ebacherville that some nice looking footage there. Did you punch the saturation or/and contrast a bit? What sort of lens do you have?

@chief OK :-(

very unscientific quick test. Night, indoors, single 60Watt bulb on ceiling, AVC 1080i60 converted to 720 MP4 for web, iris wide open, 1600 ISO, stock lens. Attached stream analysis of said video.

http://minus.com/mgklKdWe/1f

I just found something interesting , got my GF3 body today and in M mode , with a manual lens, once you start the recording and then close the aperture after recording , it does not seem to adjust ISO.. Was just a quick finding messing around.. anyone else have a GF3 they can test vs a GF2? Maybe I'm wrong and it was just because I had a lens that went to absolutely closed on it .. just the GF3 seems to handle it far better.. the GF2 got super noisy before absolutely closed.. GF3 didn't get nearly as noisy

@Rambo I'll explain what I mean with a video in the future. I really have selective iris that can be changed while recording with a GF2, with manual 'trigger points' as you call them. In the meantime, a few shots from today.

Hello all. I decided to post this on YT - I did a shot last week using pvdog's settings. Quite impressive so far. I did all editing effects on Sony Vegas MS11.

lol. We won't have manual settings until VK says we do :)