@bmcent1,

Nick (Driftwood) is always primarily concerned with improving quality. Second to that is satisfying the needs of, for example, documentary shooters who want spanning. Sedna followed Quantum so Sedna is an attempt to 'better' quantum and its various matrices. He provides these 'updates' free of charge and for the benefit of the community. There's no go to update that will satisfy the needs of everyone. It's a £600 camera that is being pushed a lot further than its maker intended.

Unfortunately you have to read a lot and ask questions, but never demand. My understanding from reading these forums is that HBR will never be as good as 24p because of the interlaced wrapper business. And I don't think the gh2 will ever be a 'great' low light performer, but it's still good. I've shot at 1600 ISO and used a denoising filter...the results are acceptable. The best thing to do though is light your scene and stay within ISO 160 - 800 (don't forget the ISO bug though!)

I'm using Sedna A Q20 and have found that there is more latitude when grading when compared to earlier releases. I'm only interested in shooting 24H(p). In Nick's opinion (I think?) Mysteron and Mysteron Burst are theoretically better than Sedna (but they are experimental and some are saying they don't grade as well). Canis will be the best for 24H(p) when Nick releases it, but for other modes...who knows? There are too many variables to have a one update fits all solution if maximum quality is your prime goal. Horses for courses I'm afraid, but Nick always provides enough information about his updates so that you can make informed decisions.

Best of luck

@exilenorth I will definitely let you know next time we test.

The PTool 3.64D patches should still work with PTool 3.65D but my suggestion is to create two versions of .BIN file (one with PTool 3.64D and one with the newest 3.65D with FW 1.1) and do a controlled shot with one right after the other.

If the artifacts only show up in one vs. the other, we should be able to identify them in screen grabs and possibly debug the issue. If the two turn out to be similar, then it may be that the shooting conditions were the issue rather than the setting.

@bmcent1 Yeah I think v1.1 maybe fixed it cause I never seem to have to do that with my camera.

@thepalalias Thanks I will do this over the weekend then post.

@Bueller Would be great to include it in the follow-up testing. :)

Just been running a few tests of Sedna A Q20.

Aiming for high detail deep DOF shots with a Tokina 11-16 and an ND filter Aperture closed down to around f11 mostly. In camera I stuck to 200 400 or 800 iso and 1/50 shutter, I only shot at the highest bitrate 24H option in cinema 24. NR was -2 everything else -1 and 'Film Mode' was Nostalgic, exposure manual.

When I reviewed some of my shots they had a band down the right side of the shot that is about 1/10th of a stop darker than the rest of the shot. This didn't happen in all shots though.

I was able to fix it in post without too much trouble but wondered if there was something I was missing that could be causing it?

Here is an example, the first shot and last shot have the band of lower exposure (there are only 3 shots in the video).

And here is a graded version which corrects it -

Thanks in advance!

@MinorHD Really nice!

@ssh would that explain a completely straight line down just the left hand side?

@DaleCampbell @jhero Yes, don't close your diaphragm beyond f/5.6 (M43), you will get fuzzies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_confusion

@luxis f/8 is the diffraction limit, lenses typically perform better @ f/5.6 hence the above recommendation for the maximum sharpness, and yes, you are right, this is completely OT.

@thepalalias Well i dont know if it's the card. cause I got it from Amazon, in 24p it happens to record just fine without it stopping, only in Manual Movie and HBR Modes it stops sometimes randomly. When recording at ISO 12800 it just cannot get past 1min and a few seconds, the same goes for all the ISOs until 400 where I am able to record for a few minutes until it stops, that file also becomes unplayable in the camera and not allowing me to delete it.

To remind you, I am using Sedena Q20 'A' on a Sandisk 16GB Class 10 95Mb/s SD card, I think it's so ridiculous that I've spend alot to try and record high quality footage as I was not able to with my previous card but I still happen to get the same results! :( This needs to be fixed.

@GH2_fan i am using the same card and have no issues with mysteron it should span on 24H 24L and SH most likey HBR too but have not tested it yet since it is not something i need. i did have issues with the SH or FSH(or both) with sedna a1 b on this card whereas Mysteron/SH runs even on on class 4 15mbits san disk card without too much panning and extreme detail.