maybe people should stop trying to compare 4k/5k cameras against a 1080p one. Its obvious the gh2 is great at what it does and you can mix the footage, but I personally just dont see the point, it really is apples to lettuce.

@LumixUser: Didn´t woodybrando already reveal them in driftwood´s thread? Page 12, I think...

@bwhitz people that don't do camera tests but want a video and have very little experience care. They want everything shot on red but they don't have any budget for it or an appreciation for what Linuxuser is saying, that the camera really doesn't sell the video, what happens in front of the camera does. But I'll lose jobs to people who have worse reels but a red. and vice versa i recently won a job because of my vids on my AWDEfilms youtube channel compared to an emmy winning red owner because the artist hiring me appreciated what was going on inside my vids. but i had to spend about 3 hours reeling him in on using a canon dslr (i was using 60d at the time) versus using the red. so tests like this are a nice easy way for me to show a client here's the difference, if your vid is going on youtube you tell me if u can tell the difference.

GH2 is #2 and EPIC #1 I hope I'm wrong but it sure looks better on the skin tones in #1.

Oh, and a minor typo: it is Sedna AQ1 not Sedna Q1 (since the AQ used here is different than the Q20 used in the other version). Did you use AQ1 A or AQ1 C? I do not have the YouTube video loaded on my phone so I am not sure if that info. was on it but it was not apparent on this thread. C should cut slightly better with Red Epic from what I have observed, but it is a very subtle difference.

@ChainsawFilms thx

@thepalalias yeah we started with the 2k crop vs the GH2 non-crop comparison i may already have some crop footage from the epic but not the gh2. Fom the testing we were doing at first, we saw that the 2k crop on the Epic is so soft that it wasn't worth comparing. since the real strength of the red 2k is that it shoots like 240fps and not it's sharpness it's not really apples to apples. gh2 can't shoot 240fps and red's 2k is really soft. But once we saw the 2k versus the gh2 we were like well damn, lets see how the gh2 does against 5k.

First one is definitely GH2, if you used the same lens on both cams smaller sensor of the GH2 would reduce field of view bringing image closer.

Epic 1st, GH2 second I think. Very nice comparison.

also someone mentioned matching field of views. but since the sensors are different sizes it still won't be an exact match since the focal planes will be different so we went with using the same lens. Nikon 50mm 1.4 @ f5.6 on the epic and what we were guessing was f5.6 on the gh2 cause the aperture is in the adapter and isn't marked.

@Fulgencio we did this test after shooting a film all day. we got three scenes done in 10 hours. Spending 3 times as long getting singles to match the wide. With 3 cameras we get both singles and the master shot @ once. plus the performaces don't wear down like they do when an actor has to do the same line 5 times for the wide 5 times for off camera single 5 times for on camera single. I'm not saying 3 cameras is better than 1. Just saying we spent 10 hours yesterday shooting with the epic 1 shot at a time and it looks like we could save a hell of a lot of time shooting with 3 cameras. and u make a good point lighting is trickier but that's a trade off worth exploring.

@LumixUser ...."wondering if it'd b better to shoot on 3 gh2's or one EPIC".... It is said in the first post

The next time you guys do a comparison test, match the field of view of the lenses. What you have is apples and oranges. Not very helpful.

1. gh2
2. epic