Can't say enough thanks to Vitaliy and the entire community here for its valued support, encouragement, and enhanced camera settings contributions and testing. It's great to be a small part of it by sharing some of my work done with the GH2. Cheers.
Filmed on GH2 over two days, Sedna A and Canis Majoris 'skin' settings from Driftwood. Steadycam Merlin (in some crazy wind), Kessler Pocket Dolly, manfrotto 561 monopod, s.takumar lenses (50,55,135), Tamron 17-50 non vc, Panasonic 14-140, Tota w/silver umbrella for interiors. LCW II vari-ND outside. Edited and graded in fcpx. Neat video applied to some clips. Music licensed with www.withetiquette.com
Congratulations @pchristoph!
Possibly not only the best example of CM... but possibly a great example of FCPX! (Good pro work!)
The gh2 produces a slightly green cast overall so I think if I remember correctly I ended up reducing the global green color saturation (fcpx) by about 2% for a more even tone. The look I was going for was bright, warm, and a bit vintage. I reduced blue in the highlights a bit to bring this look out. Exposure/Saturation got a bump up in the mids. I try to stay away from the magenta look but it's tough with this camera. I'm looking at picking up some tiffin water white IRND's to help with IR magenta issues in bright exterior shots. For this shoot I setup using Cinema, -2,0,-1,-2 and had color shift straight over to blue 5 clicks, sometimes more. I then set kelvin wb 200-400 higher than correct wb. Using this in camera setup formed the basis for getting the color grade and look I wanted to achieve in post.
For the grading, did you lower the saturation and give it a slightly yellowish/magenta look? Could you tell something about that?
I've got the 16gb cards. They seem pretty solid, but for a shoot like this I'm only recording maybe 10-20 sec per shot. (accept the interview-3min clips). I had no crashes under these conditions. I hope you have a great shoot and settle on settings that'll give you what you need. If you need long dependable record times without gop1, I've used flowmotion v2 by Lpowell and it was impressive in quality and low file sizes. I have appreciated his settings and enjoyed the benefits of his efforts since the GH1 days.
Really?... I was thinking those would fail allot on Sedna... Shooting a film in a few weeks and I need to figure out what patch to use this time. I have 1 16gig 30 mb/s 1 32gig 45 mb/s and 1 32gig 95 mb/s San disc--- I want to be able to swap cards and dump to the MBP as they fill up.
Oh and I have a nice 50mm super takumar f 1.4 m42 mount i love that thing shame its a 100mm on GH2...
@No_SurreNDeR I used the now discontinued San Disk 30mb/s Video sd cards. Got them from B&H.
Oh, and I feel the same, hence the play on words ; )
@strancali Both kinds are great. I mainly use the Tamron at 17mm, and none of my Taks get there - so I couldn't do without something that wide. It gives me a pretty close look to the Taks in camera too. If I had to choose though...I would choose the super takumars - for me they just have that : je ne sais quoi quality. Creamy, low contrast...I've been a fan of the older Pentax 'look' for years. Someday I would love an opportunity to work on a bigger project and try out some pro lenses, like Cooke's - who wouldn't : ) Thanks for the compliments Sid.
Ive wanted to shoot allot of event photographers....and not like this -LOL
Footage looks really great -btw
What card(s) do you use?
@pchristoph Paul, I said it on your vimeo page and I'll say it again here, I LOVE YOUR WORK! :)
I know this is a subjective question but out of the two sets of lenses, do you prefer to use the Takumars or the Tamron more?
Sid
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