Those are Clog? They don't look so much flat... they don't look flat at all, shadows are almost painted

From FB: With the C300

I'd advice everyone to hold on until the actual comparison is presented.
The c300 landscape looks seemingly similar to the gh2 one. Yet, it is a 720p frame grab (c300) vs a full 1080p framegrab..

I'm thinking about what x vs. y tests would be important to me.

1) Skin tone

2) People or cars moving around. Hey, still, locked down shots tell very little about motion effect and how codecs deal with lots of change.

3) A line resolution chart, (same lens) see how the binning or line skipping effects the resolution.

4) Highlights - I'd like to see how highlight clipping is handled (Red CineX) has that nice feature to rebuild one clipped color channel from the others info.

5) Shadow detail. How dark can you go and still have useable detail vs. noise.

6) Dynamic range test. If you carefully matched the look (exposure) on each camera, Then progressively tried to boost the highlight/shadows 1 stop at a time in post. Which holds up for how many stops. So, the C300 should have the most dynamic range. How many stops can you go either way and still have a good image?

Any other thoughts?

7) Banding test. Find a subject the the sky or dark shadows and see how well the different bit depths handle banding. What I HATED in my GH-1 tests.

Philip and his team probably took that shot in 1080i FSH or 720p stretched! Seriously though theyre the first of many pics. But they're the only settings at 70M ;-) Lets wait for the final report.

Sorry Vitaliy. I come from a world where total strangers sometimes say bad things about their colleagues. And good things too, of course.

I recognize these kinds of tests are just about always lose-lose from an audience complaint point of view, but, like, is it really too much to ask for the images to be KIND OF similarly exposed and KIND OF shot under similar light conditions/time of day/etc?

But all we're seeing is a couple jpegs at this point, so maybe the full thing will be more enlightening. Let's hope.

Very odd.
I realize it's about dynamic range, but he chose to blow the clouds out on the GH2. Also, looking at the same shot on the C300, it appears he shot this during "magic hour". Of course the highlights look better, not to mention the warmer color temp at that lower sunset. I wish he did the same for the GH2. Also what's with 70mb/s ? Where did this come from? I thought Quantum was 154Mb/s.

I'd like to see real tests where all the cameras see the same subjects under the same lighting.

Bloom's caption of the GH2 screen grab in the updated blog post says 70Mbit GH2 hack. Just wondering

So which patch did you install on the GH2 in the shootout @driftwood? Is it 70Mbit AVCHD i-frame? I'd like to give it a spin as well.

Currently putting GH2 up against Sony A65 in my own shootout... So far it is winning :)

@lolo... they are jpgs --- keep that in mind...

really.
Sorry I thought that the fact that he is doing the test not you or I, had some merit in the discussion. No need to go any further on this

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