@maddog15 thank you but that's from Ned Espeut-Nickless, je je. I wonder if his "0" is for NR or colour though... 'cause if colour those are exactly the ones I use too. I invited him here, FRisksuuuss

natural setting with everything turned down to -5, -5, -5, 0. So as flat as the GH3 goes, also didnt crush the blacks or blow out the whites so keep alot of detail.

was using the SLR magic 25mm f0.95 and the Lumix 12-35mm 2.8 IS

No post stabilization used just Image stabilizer on the lens and conforming 50p to 25p for slow motion helps smooth out camera shake

@starios Hands down, that take/test is definitely usable! (In my humble opinion) Good tonal range when you first strike, flesh looks like flesh. Even with YouTube compression 1080 appears to be clean, not too noisy. That's my two cents for what it's worth:)

@maxr Thanks for the reply and info. Man it is a fine line battle. If you'd be so kind, go back to page 5 on this post to the grading video I posted. look at the close up plant shot at 26 seconds. Absolutely incredible before and after shot in my opinion. Saturation is rich (greens and dark purples in the out of focus water top right), tonal range is good, no exaggerated noise or artifacting after luminance adjustment. Had I not had everything at -5 the little white flowers would have been absolutely blown out, whites crushed and dynamic range lost. Even the in camera noise reduction would have "smoothed out" precious detail and information in those whites.

As @starios has battled - it's the damn skin. So I ask myself, "So what's the big difference in the plant close up shot at 26 seconds and skin tones in "driving vid"? Shots that are primarily greens or blues do quite well in my opinion. BUT that singles out Red. (This may be old news to some but I'm just reiterating) I remember a post by Drew from DREWnet claiming, "New important findings". He stated that, at least on the GH2, the red channel was a problem in many ways. Noise especially. So... He set the white balance to the "indoor light bulb" setting for all his shots. Which means REALLY blue. I tried it in a sunny outdoor shot. It was "way too blue" of course BUT the shot was much cleaner, smoother less noise! Reduced the blue in post to balance the color.

I'm also not convinced that setting all on -5 is the end-all answer.... especially with skin tones. As I learn this cameras strengths and weaknesses, like anything else, I'll just shoot accordingly. AVCHD vs MOV is a consideration but man that's half the bit rate! Same AVCHD bit rate as the stock firmware of the GH2 on HBR mode which in my opinion was just... "ok".... but not Wow.

@maddog15 I'm not convinced all -5, in my tests I see too much information being lost in color, maybe if it recorded 422; your grades look good though ;-) AVCHD is less noisier and to me seems standard is less noisier too and natural + DR. Noise is another big field to study, je je, I almost always use extra noise and grain and being more lazy than paranoid about it I'm trying to find optimized marriage... with some weekend lovers of course.

This guy at vimeo uses

-4 -3 -3 0 I used this custom setting based on Standard then graded in Adobe Speedgrade. The original was shot Lumix GH3 in entirety with Leica 25mm f1.4, Lumix 7-14mm f4, Nikkor AIS 55mm Makro f2.8 in broad daylight, very harsh conditions. Tabitha is diffused with an 8 foot overhead silk but everything else is hot daylight.

the fckng midtones are the problem, I watch my stupid video and even before edit, the light of the lighter is enough for a clear image in f/1.2 iso 1600, the very low light tending to be black is also ok, the state between those two is the thriller

@starios Very cool....and spooky! Looks like you're getting some CA around the bright edge of the flame? Is is just the YouTube compression? Can't tell for sure but I'm surprised and thrilled the GH3 delivers that kind of exposure with the f1.4.

As I promised, after trying to solve the infinity focus problem with my c-mount lens, I finally stuck with epoxy glue the c-mount screw removing completely the rear flange of the lense and here is my first noisy sample at f/1.2 By mistake I shot it in 72alli, damn, more noise.

@griplimited. Thanks. Sorry there was a typo in the title. All were shot in MOV 50Mb/s IPB mode. (Not 30Mb/s)

I'm amazed at the amount of information available when grading footage with an all flat setting. Some shots are better than others but grading the 50Mb/s footage seems more forgiving than 72Mb/s All Intra. The "Before" of each is straight out of the camera. (All shot on Standard -5 -5 -5 -5.) Then CC/grading applied in Premiere Pro CS6.

@starios thanks for the feedback.

I just got to see some simple footaje on an 1080p tv and, WOW amazed really this camera is the best for this price range I did the right choice. ;-)

With enough light it rocks, you can use it without perceptible noise to iso 800, and very usable footage to 3200, past that is just for emergencies...

Join the GH3 with fast good lenses and you can really be close to + 8000dll camera. BlackMagic as its pros and cons, but lacks GH3 versatility. (don't need to specify).

And as for settings I found myself using natural for low light, and standard for good light situations. Why because colour temp. white balance, for me natural respond better to high ISO it keep more subtle colours (not scientific just appreciative opinion). Maybe because is less saturated and high ISO tend to make more noise in colour channels, ;-)

as for numbers I don't go (yet) with -5 think that it looses precious image information, like skintones, highlights, and too much noise (so much better then canon DSLRs though).

I do miss precise RGB colour correction, if possible that would be amazing in a hack. There is some magenta and yellows tendency most of the time that would be nice to correct in camera.

Greetings

mov is a little-little bit noisier than avchd. 50 mbps is better than alli till now, and as philip bloom says, he prefers generally manual focus, ok gh3 is very good in auto focus but it has to hunt a bit when changes focus, in low light it hunts a lot but I dont care, I use only manual

thaks for the feedback @maddog15