my first encounter with the northern lights, on the Isle of Harris, Scotland, Nov 2012

Thought I'd share some footage with you guys from a project in the Summer. I shot this BTS doc for Our Lady Peace's latest music video "As Fast as You Can". This is just for the community's speculation on the camera/patch.

There is some HVX-200 footage intermixed, and maybe 5 shots from a 5D - but other than that, the whole thing was done with two GH2's on Driftwood's Mysteron patch. There is also a bunch of 16 & 32mm film footage shot with antique lenses, but it should be pretty easily identifiable.

Skip to the 5:55 mark if you need to see the most exciting / visually pleasing content.

It was graded mostly with Synthetic Aperture & Shian's Color Ghears.

-Matt

Side Note: If anyone is interested you can see the actual music video here:

This is a very short short. I'm not a plus member on Vimeo, so you'll have to click through and watch it over there at Vimeo in HD.

I've made this on my first visit to one of the 22 islands in the archipelago here - the Red Island. I wanted to see what kind of footage can I come up with while going somewhere for the first time, on foot, with no extra gear, just handheld camera.

Lumix GH2 with Lumix 14-140mm + ColorGHear.

Honest criticism is welcome, better yet mandatory :)

You can see it really bad on the statue image, but you can also see it on the parking meter image if you look towards the center of the video...and this was lit well. The odd thing is I took a similar video of the statue, but zoomed out a little and no bad effect. I also took some shots the same night in similar conditions as the statue shot and they came out a little noisy, but no unsightly bands or flickering strips like this. These effects are happening with different lenses, so its not a lens issue.

The only two things I've been doing differently lately is using a B+W ND .6 filter (had it on during the parking meter video) and after all this time I just discovered the Tele EX button (which according to the manual does not degrade image quality). I can't image the ND .6 filter would push the camera to produce this banding, especially in broad daylight.

I have used the Terraquake hack since I bought this camera and its been so good that I haven't really had any need to change it. I never mess around with the ISO. I always light well enough to keep it down to 160, or switch to a faster lens when needed instead of raising ISO.

Oh well, going to head back to the same spot in a few days and take video without ND filter and with Tele EX off and see if this is causing the issue. Wasn't sure if anyone else was familiar with this.

Been watching this forum for a long time and decided it's time to share some of what I've been doing with Vitaliy and Driftwood's magic patches.

Here's a corporate interview style video shot using the older Orion v4 patch I think it was.

And here's a more recent one with Cluster v6 Drew Net.

Both videos were done with green screens, two fluro lights and a reflector for a basic three-point lighting setup on the subject, also using a rode lapel mic recording to a Zoom H1. Lens is just the standard 14-42mm.

I am simply blown away with the results. I've made sure to donate in return. Thanks guys!

A feature length documentary on life in Dyrafjordur, a beautiful and remote region in the West Fjords of Iceland.

This past September I took a trip out to Colorado to visit my friend June. We drove down from Boulder to Salida to hike at the Sand Dunes National park. The Sand Dunes are deceptively big. They don't look it but once you get up close you see that they are HUGE! Before hiking up (which was the most difficult and fun hike I ever experienced) I set my GoPro Hero 2 on a small Joby Gorrillapod by our camp site and set the time lapse feature to take a photo every 2 seconds. This very short video of the sunset is all 2700 plus pictures - which was about an hour and half. You'll me in the last few frames. :-)

Last month I purchased the newest GoPro Hero 3 which sports much better low light. I am going to do another time lapse around my town to see how the new model handles sunsets.

Anyway, I thought I would share this Sand Dune Sunset video with everyone. Enjoy!

Particulary this event took part in the small village on the Lucerne lake called Beckenried.

This was the most difficult video editing in my life: I have kind of slow PC right. It is fast enough for hard audio editing, but it just can not handle GH2+Cake v2.3 bitrates (thanks, @balazer!) of average 66mbps reaching nearly 100mbps peak bitrate. So, I wasnt able to playback in the editing software at all, after 1-2 seconds the PC would struggle nearby freezing. Maybe it's not the PC but very simple editing software who is cause of the problem, no idea. So, I've wrote down timecodes of the excerpts to be used and edited them just "on feeling" and routine....

This lovely, little and beautiful event is much smaller than the famous, big one organized in the city called Küssnacht. The circumstances were nearly impossible for recording: temperature -10°C / 14°F and so much crowd that I could only strech the tripod on its full length and keep it with folded legs on my hip. Better than handheld, though....

Some details about the content of the recorded event are written in the video text, directly on YouTube. And here are few liks about this kind of traditional event in the region, if somebody interested:

http://www.lebendige-traditionen.ch/traditionen/00222/index.html?lang=en
http://www.klausjagen.ch/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klausjagen

Please let know your impressions about the event!

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhw2jI4Wit937p1Sz4

I'm also posting the "official" Youtube link below for convenience, but wanted you all to see the WSHH link, specifically because of the comments in the forums. I never expected anything like the wonderful and supportive critiquing and comments we find on Personal View, regarding artistic choices and IQ comments, but the comments on the Hip Hop forum reveal a totally alien (to me) way of thinking and engaging with others. And there are pages of them; somewhat hilarious.

In case it matters, this was again a combination of my AF100 for static shots, with the GH2 in a Dicapac bag for the underwater shots. I also suspect the hit count reported by WSHH is somewhat over-inflated, compared with the (more realistic) numbers on the Youtube page.

Shot in 10 minutes, edited in an hour, using an EOS5 MkIII and a GH2 for the moving shots:

Btw the bottle is not so Kawaï, i guess it will be soon replaced by a cute big eyes bunny !

250,000 kilograms of ice and 250,000 kilograms of snow will be used to represent the fairytales of Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin, making it the single biggest ice sculpture festival in Europe.

This winter will see Zwolle’s city centre dominated by the Grimm brothers and their famous fairytales. Dozens of Dutch and international ice artists will be creating ice sculptures on the Rodetorenplein square, showing off their personal interpretation of the Grimm tales.

Music : "Be a tease" by Luciano Foglia (lucianofoglia.com), "AUTUMN SUNSET" by Jason Shaw (audionautix.com)

Camera : Michiel Boogerman, Richard van Der Laan.

Montage / Post : Michiel Boogerman, Richard van Der Laan.

Camera : 2x Panasonic GH2 AVC-Intra Driftwood VY Canis Majoris Day.

Lens : Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f2.8 G ED, Nikon NIKKOR 80-200mm f/4.5, Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 AT-X PRO DX.

Martin Bernhard is a well-established dutch Djembe drum maker, teacher and owner of foladjembe.nl

ADVICE: For best experience, turn on your HiFi speakers or put on a headphone.

Camera : Richard van Der Laan, Michiel Boogerman Sound : Maarten Boogerman Edit / Post : Richard van der Laan Artists : Martin Bernhard, Annebeth Elfrink, Marlijn Dompeling, Patrick Pol Location : Brink 21, Deventer (Netherlands) Photos : Patrick Pol Production : veasonic.nl

Camera : 2x Panasonic GH2 AVC-Intra Driftwood VY Canis Majoris Day Lens : Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f2.8 G ED, Tokina 11-16mm F2.8 AT-X PRO DX Gear : Sachtler FSB-4 75 CF, Kessler Hercules 2.0 Head, Kessler K-Pod Tripod System, Gini Follow Focus Rig, Lilliput monitors Recorder : Fostex FR-2LE Microphone : Superlux S502

Monopods, Glidecam HD4000, PBPocket Dolly, and manfrotto sticks. LPowell's Flowmotion 2.02and 75mbit reliability settings were used in the cameras respectively. Post done in FPX. Continued thanks to Vitally for unlocking these cameras potential, and the pioneers who test and produce the settings we need for our work. And to Driftwood and LPowell to whom I've used the most settings. Merry Christmas to everyone here at personal-view.com. May there be peace on earth, and good will toward men. Paul Christopher (pchristoph)

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this is a short doc I shot last April with the GH2, Voigtländer 25mm 0.95 and Panasonic 14-140. Hope you like it!

or vimeo:

Here are 2 examples with Libby O'Donovan & Australian Country & Western Singer Beccy Cole.

Edit: FCPX; Settings: Cluster v7 'Apocalypse Now- DREWnet' 12-15 GOP Settings; Glass: Tokina 28-80mm 2.8; Tokina 80-200mm 2.8; Nikkor 50mm 1.8

Short interview I did for University on my father and his experience in Israel when he was younger and what it means to him now, being an American citizen for 40+ years.

GH2 with Sedna B, Canon FL 50mm, iPhone audio.

Some information about the Festival here: http://social.un.org/coopsyear/film-festival.html