All you grade testers, have fun.

2nd one is the out of cam still.

Contax Zeiss 28@2.8 + NDs and junk. Guess which profile. :B

Orion V4b

:)

@videohq There's a 1 Light PNG along with it that's what ended up going into the cut for now :B

Until we go to the color house to finish.

I tend to lean toward natural, I guess that makes it seem like there wasn't anything done xD Haha -- for clarification, the murky warm one's straight out of cam.

@kholi Can you just let us know what profile you used? :P

mashed mosquito on the wind shield ;)

@kholi orion v4b with cinema -2-2-2-2?

@driftwood is that 2K from the mjpg !!??

Firstly, thanks so much for all the hard work! Just tried v3B Rocket RC and SpanMyBitchUp v2b, both did crash with my Kingston 32GB Class 10 100X Memory card was formatted after each firmware change.

SpanMyBitchUp crashes pretty quickly for me, freezing whole camera. Having focus tracking on seems to speed up the crash too, although it's probably the panning rather than the focus processing. Either way I only got around 10-20 seconds footage in 1080 FSH mode, tried about 3 times in different lighting environs. This is as much as I tried with this firmware.

Rocket did much better, usually recording ok at 1080 FSH . I got recording stop 'limitations of recording card' occasionally while panning on the stress charts however. I haven't got to spanning limit but doubt it'll work based on these results so far. I started recording again after that however which was fine until I pressed record button again to stop recording, that caused a full camera freeze. Next time I tried this it started/stopped just fine.

1080 FH seems to work quite well, 312MB for 36 seconds of footage (including fast panning and stress charts). Plays back on camera fine, and on media player (version 12, win-7). vlc couldn't handle it, with the frame freezing up on the stress charts. All I-frames, Average Video Bitrate = 69,527,913

Recording in 720 SH didn't give me any problems during recording, but results in corrupted video. Can't playback on device, media player has jumpy video with bottom of frame occasionally corrupted, vlc has smooth playback in places, gray screen or freeze frame in others (mostly during times of high panning). 720 H gives same results.

All tests on rocket were with i.Dynamic and flicker reduction (1/50) enabled.

I might have to get myself a faster (and bigger) card if I want to do more with high bitrates! After next paycheck maybe.

Cheers, Andrew

Orion w/panny 100-300 crashed on both high and low quality today, basically anytime I tried to pan. Gonna try b tomorrow. But 24h looks beautiful, even on etc. Backing up cards but will try to post a few grabs.

Question to All: Who prefers my matrix (based on AVC-Intra's official one and scaled by myself after a months eval and testing) or who prefers the official GH2 matrix? Should I work on pushing the Luma values a little further?

Let me know.

Nick

My two takes at Nick's shot using the technique described here: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2237/automated-color-grading#Item_1.

@driftwood I tested yesterday Quantum X v3b in all PAL modes (1080 & 720), with and without ETC, at low (160) and high (2500) ISO on a SanDisk 64GB 95MB/s card with panny 14-140: everything went fine, except once (but this has already been reported) : HBR failed once on high ISO (after 17s, had to remove the battery & clip was recorded with size 0 on the card).

The quality level is so good that, to my amateur eyes, I was hard pressed to find any glaring differences (except in motion between 24/25p/50i and 50p) between the different modes on my Viera screen: top quality across the board without any distracting compression artifacts (I filmed outdoors and dimly lit indoors environments), which is probably what many of us want in the first place.

Kudos Vitaliy & Nick for your untiring work.

@pwc

That first one made me say, "OOOoooooooo....", out loud. Very nice!