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DSLR Cameras: Important things about Flat Profile Picture Style

davidhjlindberg — Thu, 08 May 2014 05:19:29 +0000

Hey guys!

I just answered a question I got a few days ago in this video. It's about using a flat profile picture style as well as setting up some of the settings in your camera to make it as flat as possible, and why you should leave some settings although everyone says you shouldn't.

Let me know what you think of these thoughts!

GH2 film modes

Ptchaw — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:31:58 +0000

Seeing as no one else seems to have really discussed film modes on the GH2 here I thought I'd start a thread...

Personally I use nostalgic for most shooting. Ocassionally I'll use cine mode if there are highlights that I want to preserve. Both with sharpening turned off.

For dynamic range, nostalgic seems to be the best bet: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/PanasonicDMCGH2/page12.asp though it will blow your highlights easily and does give a slight colour tint.

Does anyone else have preferences?

Magic colour profile?

veloci — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:35:45 +0000

I have been playing with the my colour setting on the GH2, the "Retro" colour profile specifically. The magical thing is it is giving me tones so flat, pictures so clean, resolution so sharp that non of the other film or colour profile could match from my own quick test. Am I seeing things?

Custom picture profiles question

JPB1138 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:20:47 +0000

Just looking for information, from anyone who has been working on a hack to get at the picture profiles (smooth, cinema, etc.) to try and get something FLATTER like a technicolor cinestyle preset on canon, or even like the Cine-D setting on the AF100. I'd love to see a flat setting like that. Had a rough shoot this past weekend near sunset, just a lot of shadows mixed with a lot of highlights, and im sure a lot of others have had similar issues. I used to own an AF100 and the only two things I miss are the 1080p variable frame-rates and the flat cinema-D look.

If anyone has any new info on this feel free to comment. I'd love to see this get done as the next frontier of the hack. I just don't know if its possible or if anyone is even working on it...

Flatter Color for GH Cameras

Aria — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:22:55 +0000

Growing tired of the old -2 options, I've played around with my GH13 and one thing that has been interesting to look at is messing around filming under the My Color Mode setting and in there you can lower the color saturation in a course way, but much lower than in the other settings in the camera. Unfortunately you can adjust other key settings while in that mode, but it does work to flatten the color.

My question is have we completely given up on either hacking or asking for more fine color adjustment from Panasonic? It seems that everyone would like to have a less baked in look in terms of color and contrast, so why hasn't there been more of a concerted effort to get Panasonic to allow more range? Of course the same could be said for the Sharpness adjustment. Why not have more discussion about fine tuning the image in camera as a future update?

GH2 Neat Video noise profiles

Meierhans — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:32:38 +0000

Hi pixel peepers and codec tweakers,

sadly I don´t have the time nor skills to join the battle for best compression settings. So I simply took driftwoods 132 GOP 3 settings as given for the moment, recorded some flat surfaces and threw this into Neat Video. Then tweaked a little, checked with real footage. All 24H, Nostalgic -2, -2, -1, -2, shutter 50... any idea if this matters? I guess FPS will.. but does shutter as well?

However, here is my outcome, not scientific in any way, be warned. If you can do better.. let us know.

(Make sure to set temporal filter ratio at least to 2, so Mister Clean knows enough about the past and the future to make the right decisions...)