Tagged with grain - Personal View Talks

Why people on a budget are not using the GH2?

JuandiAznar — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 17:49:43 +0000

Hi everybody. First of all I would like to thanks Kiselev for his amazing work and Driftwood, who developed the patch I use. I start this topic as a conversation table, maybe kinda philosophic. I was using a Canon 600D but dirty look and incredible banding frustated me everytime (even being more a content guy that technic super sharpness/film look guy) The thing is, I grabbed a mint Pana GH2 with kit lens with less than 4.000 actions for 200 euros. This camera amazes me. Yeah, yeah, I know, 8 bit 4:2:0, but to me is a STEAL for 200 euros. It just have a very nice VIBE, a great noise pattern that doesn't bother me that much, a dynamic range that it's just ok and the amount of sharpness necessary (even with kit lens). To me, the camera is a tool, I paymore attention to my histories, so, if a camera just do his work for a little money, it's very ok. The thing is that this camera is a gem, don't know why filmmakers on a budget like me doesn't get this stuff for that little money instead of Canon Txi, I think it would be like my case, mainstream opinions makes you buy the Canon (it's true that they got their advantages like sensor, colour gammut...) GH2 it's just awesome.

Simply I wanted to thank the people who developed the hack and the patches and say to the world how much I like this camera, it's unique, go grab one and feel his vibe.

Greetings.

Excessive Grain (Not ISO Bug)

jondshank — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:49:52 +0000

I recently loaded the Moon T7 hack onto my GH2.

In my most recent shoot I was using a 95mb/s Extreme Sandisk and 24H mode.

I played the video on my computer when I got home to find it looks grainy. I used 400 ISO throughout the entire shoot and according to my meter I was properly exposed.

Attached is a photo. I've seen shots from other people's moon t7 footage that are far more crisp. Any ideas?

Filming a music video at night with Minolta MD lenses & Panasonic GH2

dlzn — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:04:21 +0000

Shot with Panasonic GH2, Canis Majoris Night and some Flowmotion. Lenses used: Minolta MD 50mm F1.7 and Minolta MD 35mm F1.8. Mostly handheld + run & gun.

Cheers,

The Boy Who Disappeared - Hacked GH2 Short Film

nathannguyen59 — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:40:37 +0000

I filmed this the Winter of 2011 but I just uploaded it to Vimeo. I've been so busy with school and everything.

Let me know what you guys think. Any helpful advice/tips are encouraged. Thanks!

Noise Test: Panasonic GH2 with Driftwood's 176mb GOP1

Gabel — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:10:38 +0000

With the hack we all know how noise has become more apparent (because of the sharpness). I figured that it was time to test out and see the levels at different ISO values. So here are my results (since I'm not a Vimeo-pro member, there is some bad compression, but have the originals available for upload).

I shot 10 seconds (which now might have been too long) at each ISO value, with the body cap on. Settings were:
- Driftwood's "GOPStoppa" GOP1 176mb hack.
- White balance at 5600K
- Shutter at 50

I've upped the mids in After Effects quite a bit.

The major surprise was 320, which looks awful... Shot a second one, but had the same results! Very surprising...

Here's the video:

And the link to the original clips:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5M4N08F1